Queenstown Road is a railway station in South London

London

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, between Vauxhall

Vauxhall station

Vauxhall station is a National Rail, London Underground and London Buses interchange station in central London. It is at the Vauxhall Cross road junction opposite the southern approach to Vauxhall Bridge over the River Thames in the London district of Vauxhall...

 and Clapham Junction. It is a short walk from Battersea Park station

Battersea Park railway station

Battersea Park is a suburban railway station in the London Borough of Wandsworth, formerly known as York Road. It is situated at the junction of the South London Line and the Brighton Main Line between Victoria and...

 and Battersea Park

Battersea Park

Battersea Park is a 200 acre green space at Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth in England. It is situated on the south bank of the River Thames opposite Chelsea, and was opened in 1858....

. It has eight tracks running through it but only three platforms, two of which are in use, serving trains on the Waterloo

Waterloo station

Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a central London railway terminus and London Underground complex. The station is owned and operated by Network Rail and is close to the South Bank of the River Thames, and in Travelcard Zone 1....

 to Richmond

Richmond station (London)

Richmond station is a National Rail and London Underground station in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London which is managed by South West Trains....

 line and the Hounslow Loop

Hounslow Loop Line

The Hounslow Loop Line is a railway line in southwest London which was opened by the London and South Western Railway in 1850. It leaves the Waterloo to Reading Line at Barnes Junction and after some seven and a half miles rejoins it at a triangular junction between and...

.

History

The station was opened on 1 November 1877, by the London and South Western Railway

London and South Western Railway

The London and South Western Railway was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Its network extended from London to Plymouth via Salisbury and Exeter, with branches to Ilfracombe and Padstow and via Southampton to Bournemouth and Weymouth. It also had many routes connecting towns in...

, and was originally named Queen's Road (Battersea). The entrance still bears the original name of the station, Queen's Road, not to be confused with Queens Road Peckham

Queens Road Peckham railway station

Queens Road Peckham railway station is in the London Borough of Southwark and also serves the area to the east of Peckham, in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is on the Inner South London Line between and , and trains also go to Croydon via various routes and beyond...

, Walthamstow Queen's Road

Walthamstow Queens Road railway station

Walthamstow Queen's Road railway station is a London Overground station between and stations on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line in northeast London. It is in Zone 3. It opened as "Walthamstow" on 9 July 1894 and was renamed on 1 May 1968. Its name is misleading as the station is on Edinburgh Road,...

 or Queensway tube station

Queensway tube station

Queensway is a London Underground station on the Central Line, just inside the boundary of the City of Westminster with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is at the junction of Queensway and Bayswater Road, and is northwest of Kensington Gardens...

, which was also originally called Queens Road. Queen's Road (Battersea) was renamed Queenstown Road (Battersea) on 12 May 1980. Note that Queenstown Road station's modern entrance and platform signage lacks the "(Battersea)" suffix that is applied to it on timetables and some maps, ie. Queenstown Road (Battersea). However, the latest "Oyster Rail Services" map produced by Transport for London

Transport for London

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 shows the station as plain "Queenstown Road". Moreover, on the map produced by the station managers, South West Trains

South West Trains

South West Trains is a British train operating company providing, under franchise, passenger rail services, mostly out of Waterloo station, to the southwest of London in the suburbs and in the counties of Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Berkshire, and Wiltshire and on the Isle of Wight...

, the station is also shown as "Queenstown Road".

Services

Queenstown Road is located on the early stage of the South Western Main Line

South Western Main Line

The South Western Main Line is a railway line between London Waterloo and Weymouth on the Dorset coast, in the south of England. It is a major railway which serves many important commuter areas, as well as the major settlements of Southampton and Bournemouth...

 but with only 2 platforms in use. The off peak frequency is:

• 8tph to London Waterloo
• 2tph on the Kingston Loop
  Kingston Loop Line
  The Kingston Loop Line is a railway line built by the London and South Western Railway in South West London. It runs in an overall southeasterly direction from a junction west of Twickenham on the Waterloo to Reading Line to join the South West Main Line west of New Malden; both connections face...
  
   via Richmond and Kingston
• 4tph on the Hounslow Loop
  Hounslow Loop Line
  The Hounslow Loop Line is a railway line in southwest London which was opened by the London and South Western Railway in 1850. It leaves the Waterloo to Reading Line at Barnes Junction and after some seven and a half miles rejoins it at a triangular junction between and...
  
   of which:
  • 2tph clockwise
  • 2tph anti-clockwise
• 2tph to Weybridge
  Weybridge railway station
  Weybridge railway station serves Weybridge in the Elmbridge district of Surrey, England. It is located on the South Western Main Line operated by South West Trains, 19 miles from London Waterloo....
  
   via Hounslow
  Hounslow railway station
  Hounslow railway station, on the Hounslow Loop Line, is in the London Borough of Hounslow, in west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 5. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains. It was opened by the London and South Western Railway on 1 February 1850 on completion of...
  
   and Staines
  Staines railway station
  Staines railway station is in Staines, Surrey. South West Trains manage it and provide all services which are down to , and and up to London Waterloo....
  
  

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