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It's Syon Lane

Obscure indeed ... but I see they do at least have hotels, even in such deepest 30s suburbia.

More seriously (though only marginally), would that journey be easier if anything comes of the idea of reopening the Brentford branch?

Passenger numbers at Syon Lane have rocketed over the years, and where I'm teaching more or less backs on to the old Brentford branch.  There are 4 trains per hour each way at Syon Lane, and the crowds pour out and into their workplace in the morning peak.  But Sunday's just hourly, and passengers were very few when I arrived.

I did look at Ealing, District to Acton Town, Piccadilly to Osterley and other alternatives - a Brentford branch with good connections all the way would have worked for me, but by the time I travelled on a local train to Hayes and Harlington or Southall and changed, it was just as good to go cvi a Staines.

"I see they do at least have hotels" ... a generous use of the word "hotel" for where I am.  One to write home about, and one to hold up as an example tour team of how NOT to do it.