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… before serving as headquarters 2nd Tactical Air Force for the invasion of Europe, Hillingdon House served as the home of RAF’s 11 Group, who took on the defence of the whole South East, including London, during the Battle of Britain.
11 Group’s CO, AVM Sir Keith Park, lived in a cottage down Wren Road, a minute walk from the entrance of the underground OPS room – practically in his front garden – and 5 minutes walk from his office in Hillingdon House. Sir Keith had to take a 10 mn drive to Northolt though, when he needed to fly his Hawker Hurricane :-)
Abstract taken of a spiral ramp onto a foot bridge in Uxbridge. An abandoned trolley can be spotted on the left. The litter at the bottom reminds me of stars.
Not fully sharp, but I still love the reflections in this shot at Uxbridge
Luke Agbaimoni - Tubemapper.com
A row of 10 S8 Stock seen stabled at the Uxbridge sidings due to a lack of control room staff which led to the Metropolitan Line being suspended and the Piccadilly Line suspended between South Harrow & Uxbridge.
Tried some painting with light and long exposure to light these pillars below the A40 near Uxbridge. Lit with torch light only on a 30second exposure.
A Metropolitan Line train of S Stock descends the cutting into Uxbridge Station on a murky December night. Up above to the left are the Uxbridge stabling sidings with only one train parked up at this time of the evening. The sidings also mark the spot where the original station almost used to sit. Sainsburys supermarket is now pretty much on top of it with the stabling yard between it and the running lines. Uxbridge used to have no less than three stations. High Street, Vine Street and the Underground Station. The former two, both GWR, are now long gone.
This was the weekend I'd gone to Uxbridge three times, this, the second time, to get photos of the Christmas lights after dark as the Art Deco station entrance was nicely decorated. It is after all only a 10 minute ride on the tube for me. But I wondered about getting a shot of the stabling yard in the descending mist so I walked around the back of the station to try and find a spot. The shot wasn't on though as too much fencing and barbed wire abounded. And although another view point can be found from a road bridge further up that was too much of a walk at this point. The mist was coming down and it was freezing cold. So I rested my camera on the parapet here instead and tried long exposure and normal shots of trains coming and going. This was one of the better ones. I saw no Piccadilly line trains this evening as in the winter months they run infrequently beyond Rayners Lane. The 1973 stock suffers notoriously from wheel slip and flats in the greasy winter conditions so to minimise wear and tear on the wooded stretch to Uxbridge they terminate at Rayners Lane. The climb out here at Uxbridge doesn't help either.
ONT 1603 leads a mid morning York Durham Heritage Railway train back to Uxbridge after their short run about 3 miles out of town.
1603 is on loan to the YDHR from the Ontario Northland to help them run trains as the railways ALCO locomotives are all dead and likely never to run again. We were told the ALCOs were to be scrapped but someone from the railway claims that is a rumour...time will tell I guess.
1603 may be a permanent fixture here as well due to a washout on the line that the railway does not have the funds to fix...making the line landlocked.
Taken the other side of the bridge from the previous shot, the platforms of Uxbridge Underground Station are captured at night. A Metropolitan Line train of S Stock waits to depart from Platform 1. Even though the station only has three tracks, the middle bay shares Platforms 2 & 3. The Charles Holden designed station building top right is Grade II Listed.
First Berkshire
Alexander Dennis Enviro200
44569 - YX63LHR
Seen on stand at Uxbridge.
Seen with display for route N7 shortly before the route's withdrawal meant it was removed from the destination database.
Taken 29/12/2016
A footbridge over the main Oxford Road in Uxbridge presents a good view of Brutalist sensibilities, hidden at the rear of The Pavilions Shopping Centre, resting in the bright afternoon sunlight.
Carousel Buses
Mercedes-Benz O530 Citaro and Optare X1260 Tempo
872 CB53BUS & 803 YJ56WUC
Seen on routes A40 & 730 in Uxbridge.
The A40/730 used to connect at Uxbridge allowing easy through travel between Heathrow, The Chalfonts, Amersham, Chesham and Hemel Hempstead.
Taken 15/06/2016
Providence & Worcester ethanol extra running south on the Providence Main on Wednesday March 30, 2022 as it crosses over the Mumford River approaching downtown Uxbridge Mass- This location is a 10 minute walk from my house so it's nice to shoot local!
Continuing with this mini chase of the southbound deadheading Blackstone Valley Polar Express consist, the first one of the 2025 season which ran for seven consecutive weekends totaling 28 sold out trains!
Here is the Providence and Worcester Railroad's pretty streamliner on its way south passing the former Uxbridge passenger station built in 1895 by the New Haven Railroad which leased the company at that time. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, it sits at about MP 26.6 beside the 1847 built line and saw its last scheduled passenger train call in 1957 and has served assorted non railroad uses since, presently as a real estate office.
All shined up in the lead is PW 3910, an ex LMX General Electric B39-8E, part of a group of 102 built in 1987-88 for GE's leasing arm and immediately put on long term lease to Burlington Northern. PW picked up six of them around 2001, but this particular one came to the road later as a replacement for 3908 that was damaged in 2019. 3910 looks fresh because it was renumbered and painted in June 2022. Prior to that it still wore LMX gray and its original number, 8534, as an RLCX and then NREX lease unit before spending some time in the Silvis deadline.
Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Friday November 7, 2025
VMH2592 LF19FXT seen at Ealing Common working on route SL8 towards Uxbridge.
The SL8 is simply a renumbered 607. All the existing express routes will get renumbered as part of the Superloop scheme.
The allocated Evosetis had gained route branding as well as being refitted with USB charging. Blinds also drop the "Limited Stop" as seen here it just says Uxbridge. The branding only highlights key place names which are not easy to read by some.
C-GFBR, an Antonov An-2PD-5, several minutes after it crashed at Greenbank Airport (CNP8) at Uxbridge, Ontario.
Soon after taking off at 0940 local, the aircraft experienced a serious oil leak that coated the cockpit windows and negated visibility. Thankfully, the sliding side windows in the cockpit were operable and allowed the highly skilled pilot to return the airplane to the 2,700-foot-long grass strip.
Upon landing at 0953, the aircraft slid uncontrollably (thanks to oil coated tires and wet grass) off the runway and into a culvert before slamming against the embankment.
The 1,000 horsepower radial engine was separated from the big biplane's firewall.
Details about the accident are available here:
Metroline
Volvo B5LH / Wright Gemini 3
VWH2175 - LK16DFP
Seen blinded for route 207 at Uxbridge.
When route 207 moved out of Hayes to Greenford, the night route N207 moved to Uxbridge, including evening journeys on the 207. Many times the buses would leave Uxbridge already blinded for 207 White City, which must've been confusing for intending passengers in Hayes End waiting for a 427 or 607.
Taken 06/09/2017
Road Switcher Sunday:-
York Durham Heritage Railway MLW RS-3 No. 22 approaches Owen Rd, Uxbridge, with the 12h00 Uxbridge Fall Foliage Special on 16th October 2021.
Like all heritage and tourist railways worldwide, the YDHR has had a tough time the last 18 months. They operated 4 trips this day, we rode the first trip then planned to photograph the others in various locations but the weather was “tres merde” to put it politely. Some of the trains (with seven cars) were a sell out which should help the railway recover.
Another 'found' from my older thumb drive. This was a southbound unit ethanol train with an extra crew onboard making a trip through Hartford Ave in Uxbridge MA enroute to Motiva at the Port of Providence on a nice afternoon in March, 2013. Remarkably, 3 of the 4 units are still in the classic P&W livery. I remember quite a few people were chasing, though it was nothing like the crowds these days. Back then the independent P&W would turn around and incoming ethanol train from CSX within a matter of hours, getting the product to the customer as quickly as possible. They were fun days indeed.