"The Gardener" wrote

And for nostalgia's sake, here's what you would have seen once a day
at North Acton in 1984:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/6053903...57626998739154

though in its last years that one remaining loco-hauled train between
Paddington and the Chiltern Line ran via Drayton Green on Saturdays, as Park
Royal box was switched out.

Peter