[7] The station is located on Turnham Green Terrace (B491) on the eastern edge of Chiswick Common.

[8] The station is located close to the site of the Battle of Turnham Green (1642), during the First English Civil War.

[9] Turnham Green station was opened on 1 January 1869 by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) on a new branch line to Richmond built from the West London Joint Railway starting north of Addison Road station (now Kensington (Olympia)).

[10] Between 1 June 1870 and 31 October 1870 the Great Western Railway (GWR) briefly ran services from Paddington to Richmond via the Hammersmith & City Railway (now the Hammersmith & City line) tracks to Grove Road then on the L&SWR tracks through Turnham Green.

[11] 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.

[citation needed] The success of the DR's operations led it, on 1 July 1879, to open a branch from Turnham Green to Ealing Broadway.

[12] The tracks between Acton Town and central London were electrified on 1 July 1905 and those on the Richmond branch on 1 August 1905.

[13] 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).

Local residents have been campaigning for more Piccadilly line trains to stop at Turnham Green[16] with trains only stopping in the event of delays to the District line whereby large numbers of passengers are left waiting on the platform or occasionally while scheduled maintenance work is carried out.

[17] A consultation published in January 2014, concluded that the business case would currently have an overall negative impact on business across London from introducing increased stopping at Turnham Green, but did outline the future plans to do so when upgrades had taken place, with passengers benefiting from improvements to the District line and the Night Tube (on Friday and Saturday nights, beginning with the Jubilee, Victoria, Central, Northern and most of the Piccadilly line,[note 1] then expanding across other lines in subsequent years)[18][19][20] from Autumn 2015 in the interim, giving the following conclusion:[21] However, we recognise the continued frustration among those who wish for the Piccadilly line to stop for more of the day at Turnham Green station.