London Assembly member Murad Qureshi has called for Piccadilly line trains to stop at Ravenscourt Park on a regular basis.

The branch was built from the West London Joint Railway starting north of Addison Road station (now Kensington (Olympia)).

On 5 May 1878, the Midland Railway began running a circuitous service known as the Super Outer Circle from St Pancras to Earl's Court via Cricklewood and South Acton.

It operated over a now disused connection between the North London Railway and the L&SWR Richmond branch.

[9] The Richmond branch was a major stimulus to residential development along the route and traffic on the line was high.

In the early 1930s, the London Electric Railway, precursor of the London Underground and owner of the District and Piccadilly lines, began the reconstruction of the tracks between Hammersmith and Acton Town to enable the Piccadilly line to be extended from Hammersmith to Uxbridge and Hounslow West (then the terminus of what is now the Heathrow branch).