Acton has seen house prices rise by 59 per cent since work on Crossrail started
(Picture: Daniel Hambury)The railways transformed Acton from a semi-rural village into a thriving Victorian suburb. And Crossrail has helped reinvent this west London area once again, this time into an urban village.
When Catriona Hannon, now 32, moved to the area with her six-year-old son Caspar in 2014, it was not entirely enthusiastically. She had been based in Chiswick and moved to Acton as it was better value, with one-bedroom flats renting for about £1,200pcm.
