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Acton has seven railway stations, namely North, East, South, West, Central, Mainline and Town.
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The museum also has an extensive depot, situated at Acton, that contains material impossible to display at the central London museum, including many additional road vehicles, trains, collections of signs and advertising materials.
With the demise of Acton Works this no longer applies, and the new 2009 tube stock has a wider profile and slightly longer carriages which preclude it running on other deep-level tube lines.
How ever cloud over West London meant they missed their target, knowing this they decided not to take the bombs home so they dropped them all on South Acton and that is why South Acton has all the high rise flats.
Acton has four secondary high schools, Acton High School, Twyford Church of England School, The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls and Barbara Speake Stage School.
* Musician M. I. A in interviews has hinted one of the meanings of her stage name is " Missing in Acton ", with Acton being the place she grew up.
Almost all of Acton is forested, except for where it has been cleared for residential or agricultural use.
Acton has two primary stream systems: the Nashoba Brook system including the incoming streams Butter Brook, Will's Hole Brook and Conant Brook and the Fort Pond Brook system including the incoming streams Guggins Brook, Inch Brook, Grassy Pond Brook, Pratt's Brook and Coles Brook.
While Acton Center has been the civic center of the town since the revolution, the four other villages centers earned their nomenclature from the names of their corresponding railroad station.
With the growth of the Rte 2A / 119 corridor, North Acton has developed many commercial complexes and condominium buildings.
Acton has held annual town meetings since 1735, the records of which are held at Acton's Memorial Library.
Acton has two public libraries: the Acton Memorial Library and the West Acton Citizens ' Library ( The Secret Library ).
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Acton is home to more railway stations than any other area of London ; seven stations in the locality feature Acton in their name.
All of the water provided from the District comes from seven wells located within the town of Acton.
Centered at the Acton, Canberra campus, the university comprises seven teaching and research colleges, several focused postgraduate research centres and three non-tertiary educational entities.
Acton is a small unincorporated community located about seven miles ( 11 km ) due east of Granbury on the Brazos River in Hood County, Texas, United States.
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* The 1971 film Villain starring Richard Burton and Ian McShane clearly features Acton Central railway station in one of its sequences.
Thornbury was once served by a railway line ; it was the terminus of a branch line of the Midland Railway ( later part of the LMS ), from Yate on the Bristol to Gloucester main line, with intermediate stations at Iron Acton and Tytherington.
The London Group of the Campaign for Better Transport published a plan in 2008 for an off-road orbital North and West London Light railway ( NWLLR ), sharing the Dudding Hill Line freight corridor, and using the middle two of the six track beds at North Acton tube station.
The bulk of its coal was brought in trains from Acton yard on the Great Western Railway to Three Bridges for re-distribution throughout the system, and the railway kept two of its freight locomotives at the GWR Westbourne Park Depot for this purpose.
The joint New North Main Line ( NNML ) of the Great Central and Great Western opened in 1903 and its North Acton railway station followed in 1904.
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