Southall Broadway, a predominantly Asian area in London, where less than 12 percent of the population is white, has been cited as an example of a ' ghetto ', but in reality the area is home to a number of different ethnic groups and religious groups.

Hanwell is a town situated in the London Borough of Ealing in west London, between Ealing and Southall.

This canal and flight of locks are actually within the boundary of Southall but are named after the local village of Hanwell, which is much closer than either of the villages of Norwood or Southall.

Hanwell is divided between two parliamentary constituencies: Ealing North ( which covers Hanwell north of the railway line to Paddington ), represented since 1997 by Labour MP Stephen Pound, and Ealing Southall ( south of the railway line ), represented since 2007 by Labour MP Virendra Sharma.

In Southall, which lays the west side of the borough is a very large South Asian community often described as " Little India ".

The M4 motorway is 0. 5 miles north ; its nearest junction is J3, accessed from Hyde Lane or Southall Lane, crossing over the M4 motorway into North Hyde and then turning left ( west ) to reach the A312, The Parkway, north of the junction.

Southall is a large suburban district of west London, England, and part of the London Borough of Ealing.

Its earliest record, from ad 830, is of Warberdus bequeathing Norwood Manor and Southall Manor to the archbishops of Canterbury.

The southern part of Southall ( roughly south of the railway ) used to be known as Southall Green ( and a section of the main north-south road in the area is still called The Green ) and was centred on the historic Tudor-styled Manor House which dates back to at least 1587.

Little of the building is original but much dates back to the days when Southall Green was a quiet rural village.

The extreme southernmost part of Southall is known as Norwood Green.

It has few industries and is mainly a residential area, having remained for many years mainly agricultural whilst the rest of Southall developed industrially.

A collection of Martinware – salt-glazed stoneware, and birds – is on display at Southall Library.

Currently the site, now referred to as the Southall Railway Centre, is used by three independent groups, including Locomotive Services ( where volunteers can contribute to the preservation and restoration of mainline locomotives ) and the Great Western Railway Preservation Group.

Southall is primarily a South Asian residential district, sometimes known as " Little India ".

His recording studio is in Southall where he produced many Bhangra hits for local Southall bands during the 1980s and where he continues to produce music.

* Tim Lott, author ( his debut The Scent Of Dried Roses is about growing up in Southall ) was born here in 1956.

The Southall area is the setting for many of her films involving the British Asian community.

Southall is part of the parliamentary constituency of Ealing Southall, represented since 2007 by Labour Member of Parliament Virendra Sharma.

There is no London Underground station in Southall, the nearest one to the town centre being Osterley station, on the Piccadilly line, which is located approximately to the south.

The fatal accidents at Southall in 1997 and Ladbroke Grove in 1999 called into question the effect that the fragmentation of the railway network had had on both safety and maintenance procedures.

J. R. Southall, writer for the science fiction magazine Starburst, reviewed Levine's completed version and scored it 10 out of 10 in an article published on 15 September 2011.

The station, on a branch from Southall to Brentford Docks, had been on the left.

The passenger station and the service from Southall were closed on 4 / 5 / 42, but although Brentford Dock was closed in 1964, goods trains ran to Brentford Town Goods until 7 / 12 / 70.

A branch railway line from Southall railway station to the Brentford Dock on the Thames was also built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1856.

The bus and commercial vehicle manufacturer Associated Equipment Company ( AEC ) was based in Southall, on a triangular site between Windmill Lane, the main Great Western Railway and the branch to Brentford Dock.

During World War II Southall was the target of enemy bombing on a number of occasions.

The Southall rail crash occurred on 19 September 1997 when a mainline high speed express train from Swansea to London Paddington ran a red signal, when the driver's attention was distracted, and it collided with a goods train just outside Southall railway station.

Southall is served by Southall railway station on the Great Western Main Line, providing links to Heathrow Airport, Reading and Oxford as well as London Paddington.

* Blair Peach, anti-racist campaigner was killed in a demonstration in Southall on Monday 23 April 1979.

* Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College which has a campus on Beaconsfield Road in Southall.

Smith married former Miss Virginia USA beauty queen Patricia Southall on April 22, 2000.

This was the second major accident on the Great Western Main Line in just over two years, the first being the Southall rail crash of September 1997, a few miles west.

Southall is one of three stations in England which have bilingual station signage, the others being Wallsend, on the Tyne and Wear Metro ( which has signs in Latin ), and St Pancras International ( French ).

Station signs on the platforms bear " Southall " and also " ਸ ਾ ਊਥਹ ਾ ਲ " in Gurmukhī, a script commonly used for Punjabi.

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 Bridge ( the latter now known as Taplow ).

The name Southall derives from the Anglo-Saxon dative æt súð healum, " At the south corner ( of the land or wood )" and súð heal, " South corner " and separates it from Northolt which was originally norþ heal, " North corner " which through a later association with Anglo-Saxon holt, " Wood, copse " developed into Northolt.

Southall is made up of five electoral wards for local council elections: Dormers Wells, Lady Margaret, Norwood Green, Southall Broadway and Southall Green, which all elect councillors to Ealing Council.

Southall is in the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member: Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), who was re-elected in May 2008.

There is an express coach service between Southall, Leicester and Birmingham which specialises in serving the many family connections in both areas ' South Asian populations.

Douglas Southall Freeman's works ( especially Lee's Lieutenants ), as well as Michael Shaara's novel The Killer Angels ( 1975 ) and Gettysburg ( 1993 ), the film adaptation in which he is portrayed by Stephen Lang ) have greatly enhanced this reputation in popular culture.

The Chatham line station had eight platforms, five of which were of mixed-gauge and shared by broad-gauge trains of the GWR which began its broad-gauge services from Windsor via Southall.

At CIÉ, he led the first major dieselisation programme, which involved the procurement of a fleet of diesel multiple units from AEC of Southall, 94 diesel locomotives ( 60 CIE 001 Class and 34 CIE 201 Class ) from Metropolitan-Vickers and 12 Sulzer-engined diesel locomotives ( CIE 101 Class ) from the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.

Southall railway station has five platforms, one of which is unnumbered and used only for freight and special events.

At the 1964 general election Bean stood as BNP candidate in Southall and obtained 3, 410 votes ( 9. 3 %) which was the highest post-war vote for a minority party at that time.

Boston Manor station is served by the 195 bus route, which runs north through Hanwell and Southall, terminating at Charville Lane Estate, Hayes, and south into Brentford ; and the E8 bus route, which runs north through Hanwell and West Ealing, terminating at Ealing Broadway station, and south into Brentford.