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Railway station. 1877 and 1909
for the London and South Western Railway.
Yellow stock brick with a red and
glazed brick front and a slate roof to the street building.
Timber framing with a corrugated asbestos roof to the island
platform building.
Street elevation: 1909. Two
storeys with a brown glazed brick plinth and red brick above in
the 'Old English' revival style. The central door is pedimented
and is surrounded by an 8-light timber mullioned window with
three transoms. On the left is a 2-light window flanked by plain
brick pilasters and on the right by a taller 2-light window.
Frieze with L.S.W.R. QUEENS ROAD STATION on it. Above this is a
narrower second storey flanked by rusticated pilasters and
crowned by a broken pediment containing a blind tympanum. Below
this is an 8-light window. To the right of the building the
station was originally entered under the bridge through a
semi-circular headed arch with moulded surround. Interior: The
1909 building contains the Booking Office and has the ticket
windows etc. all complete and painted in the colours of the
Southern Railway. A brick subway leads to the island platform.
Island Platform: 1877. This has a
gabled timber framed structure, which is carried on twelve pairs
of square timber posts with decorative cast iron brackets
supporting king post trusses and a central lateral girder. The
canopy is open at the north end but to the south has a simple
boarded building with blocked windows and doors, the windows
being 3 over 3 pane sashes. This building incorporates five of
the canopy posts. The end wall at the head of the staircase has
the ticket office window and the south end wall a plain doorway.
The canopy has a plain unfretted valance.
Disused platform: This runs in
front of the 1909 building and runs over the railway bridge with
rear windows onto the street. Plain canopy carried on steel
trusses. When built it was known as the 'Up Windsor' platform.
History: This station was opened
as Queens Road in 1877 and was then only the surviving island
platform reached by a staircase from the street through an
archway under the bridge. It was built as a part of the works
involved in the widening of the approach lines to Waterloo. The
station was served by the trains of two companies, the L.S.W.R's
Windsor line services and the L.N.W.R's Willesden service. This
station was extended by the addition of a third platform and a
new Booking Hall etc. in 1909. This third platform remains but
is now disused. British Rail renamed the station Queenstown Road
in 1980.
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