The station is located close to the Old Oak Lane conservation area in the East Acton ward.

Passenger services ended in 1962 when the platforms were removed during the electrification of the WCML to allow the curvature of the tracks to be eased.

In 1896 staff totalled 271, including 79 porters, 58 signalmen (in 14 signal boxes) and 58 shunters and yard foremen.

[8] Many of them were housed in what is now the Old Oak Lane conservation area, built by the LNWR in 1889[9] and which included an Institute, reading room and church.

[10] In the late nineteenth century, it was nicknamed "Bewildering Junction" or "The Wilderness" because it contained such a maze of entrances, passages and platforms.

[15] On 6 October 1986 at 17:00 a class 313 train collided with the rear of a stationary Bakerloo line train on the up line to the east of the station between the Scrubbs Lane overbridge and Kensal Green tunnel (the location was officially described as "Kensal Green").

The HL station previously had a third platform on the eastern side which was used by services to/from Earls Court.

[21] Normally only the first and last NLL trains of the day, which start or terminate here, use the bay platform, though it is used for empty stock transfers between the depot and the North London and Gospel Oak to Barking lines.

The LNWR opened a large locomotive depot on a site on the south side of the main line to the west of the station, in 1873.

[22] (The servicing of locomotives and multiple units was then undertaken by the present Willesden TMD on the other side of the line.)