Southall railway station
Southall 
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| Punjabi: ਸਾਊਥਾਲ | |
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 Southall
Location of Southall in Greater London
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| Location | Southall |
| Local authority | London Borough of Ealing |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Station code | STL |
| DfT category | D |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Fare zone | 4 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 2.122 million |
| 2012–13 |
2.222 million |
| 2013–14 |
2.306 million |
| 2014–15 |
2.422 million |
| 2015–16 |
2.791 million |
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| 1839 | Opened |
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| WGS84 | 51°30′22″N 0°22′42″W / 51.506°N 0.3783°WCoordinates: 51°30′22″N 0°22′42″W / 51.506°N 0.3783°W |
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Southall is a railway station in Southall, west London. The station is in Travelcard Zone 4 and passenger services are provided by Great Western Railway from London Paddington to Reading, Oxford and Newbury, and by Heathrow Connect from Paddington to Heathrow Airport.
The Great Western Railway opened Southall railway station on 1 May 1839, nearly one year after it opened its first railway line on 4 June 1838, between London Paddington and Maidenhead Riverside (the latter now known as Taplow). In 1859 the Brentford Branch Line to Brentford Dock was opened for freight, a passenger service ran on the branch from 1860 until 1942, using the unnumbered platform at the south of the station (the line serving this platform is now only used as a relief line). From 1 March 1883 to 30 September 1885 (when the service was discontinued as uneconomic) the District Railway ran trains between Mansion House and Windsor which called at the station. The goods platforms opened as part of the original station and were closed and dismantled in 1967.
Southall station has bilingual station signage, due to the large Punjabi community in the local area. Station signs on the platforms bear "Southall" and also "ਸਾਊਥਹਾਲ" in Gurmukhī, a script commonly used for Punjabi. In 2007, following issues raised by other ethnic groups in the area, First Great Western announced it would follow government guidelines requiring that the signs be in English only.
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