West Acton tube station

West Acton is a London Underground station between Ealing Broadway and North Acton on the Ealing Broadway branch of the Central Line, and is its only intermediate station. It is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station is close to North Ealing tube station on the Piccadilly line, situated at the other end of Queens Drive. It is located in West Acton.

History
As Transport for London explains: On 18 August 1911, the Central London Railway abandoned its policy of no through running with any other railway, and secured powers to build a short extension from Wood Lane to connect with the intended Ealing & Shepherds Bush line of the Great Western Railway, over which it proposed to exercise running powers.

The Great Western Railway built the Ealing Broadway branch (the western part of the former Ealing & Shepherd's Bush Railway) in 1917, and the Central London Railway trains used the line from 1920. West Acton station did not open until 1923.

GWR steam freight trains also ran through West Acton until 1938, when the London Underground tracks were segregated further east, through East Acton station, and to the west of North Acton station.