References in Popular Culture
The station achieved poetic immortality in John Betjeman's poem Middlesex:
- Gaily into Ruislip Gardens
- Runs the red electric train,
- With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's
- Daintily alights Elaine;
- Hurries down the concrete station
- With a frown of concentration,
- Out into the outskirt's edges
- Where a few surviving hedges
- Keep alive our lost Elysium - Rural Middlesex again.
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