 Between 1 June 1870 and 31 October 1870, the Great Western Railway (GWR) briefly ran services from to via Hammersmith & City Railway (now the Hammersmith & City line) tracks to Grove Road then on the L&SWR tracks through Kew Gardens.On 1 June 1877, the District Railway (DR, now the District line) opened a short extension from its terminus at Hammersmith to connect to the L&SWR tracks east of station.The DR then began running trains over the L&SWR tracks to Richmond.