There was another branch in the opposite direction from 13 June 1905 to Acton Town, a District Railway service that was withdrawn from 2 March 1959.

It thus provided an easier interchange for Richmond for eastbound passengers than changing trains at Turnham Green further east.

[4] In later years, the shuttle train was normally worked by a single car of London Underground G Stock, specially modified for one person operation and fitted with additional brakes.

Given the (then highly unusual) driver-only operation, the branch line was equipped with a two wire emergency telephone system at window level, a feature normally found only in tunnels on the London Underground.

A two km-long branch exists to Old Kew Junction near Brentford station on the South Western Railway line from Waterloo which does not carry passenger services.