Station Name: STAINES WEST

[Source: Nick Catford]


Date opened: 1885
Location: East side of Wraysbury Road north of its junction with Moor Lane
Company on opening: Great Western Railway
Date closed to passengers: 29.3.1965
Date closed completely: 29.3.1965
Company on closing: British Railways (Western Region)
Present state:

The platform has been demolished, but the main station building has been renovated and converted into an office, together with the single-storey block of buildings along the west side. Part of the side platform and concourse remains, although partly rebuilt and faced with brick. Two of the cast iron supports for the platform canopy have been retained to carry lights in the office car park at the rear; the spandrels have been rotated through 90 degrees and now carry the lights. The retaining wall at the back of the platform, which also supported the canopy, survives. A short section of rail has been laid in the car park as a ‘feature’, with a buffer just outside the property wall. The wording 'Staines West' appears high on the retaining wall. Beyond the property the rest of the station site and goods yard is now a residential development (Wraysbury Gardens).

County: Middlesex
OS Grid Ref: TQ033718
Date of visit: November 1968, August 1968, July 1975 and 11.2.2012

Notes: It was originally intended that the Staines line from West Drayton should join the London & South Western Railway 43ch north-west of Staines High Street which would enable trains from West Drayton to run into the LSWR’s Staines station. The LSWR were opposed to this arrangement, firstly because they considered it to be dangerous, and secondly because their station had not been built with facilities required by a terminus and would be unable to handle the West Drayton traffic.

Although an Act to build the line was obtained in 1866 no work was undertaken, and two extensions were granted by Parliament. Eventually the local company turned to the GWR for help. The GWR did not want to alienate the LSWR and only agreed to support the line financially if it had an independent terminus at Staines. This was agreed and quickly approved by Parliament. The north section of the line opened to Colnbrook on 9 August 1884 and, although the extension to Staines was progressing well, finances were stretched by the delays, and the company had insufficient money to pay the workforce; so the labourers downed their tools and staged a mass walk-out. This was ultimately settled but, as cash had to be found somewhere, savings had to be made.

To avoid the cost of building an expensive terminus station the contractor decided to purchase an existing building which could then be adapted as the terminus. The company bought an existing Georgian house from Charles Waring Finch of the adjacent Finch & Rickman's Mustard Mills (later Pound Mill) which was then converted into the Staines terminus, saving the company £1,150. The extension to Staines opened on 2 November 1885.

The building at the terminus was a plain, but dignified, villa, brick-built with a hipped slate roof. The western section of the villa had three storeys, the upper storey being compressed. This section originally extended further south and was partly demolished when the railway converted the building: this is apparent from photos of the front of the building which show the lower floor has been rendered where it was shortened. There was a door-opening, presumably original, surrounded by a rendered casing and surmounted by a modest segmental arch and a keystone. The eastern section of the building was of two storeys, the frontage stepped back in two stages. Under railway ownership an entrance porch was added to the eastern section; it projected forward of the main building and was topped with a low parapet. The wide door-opening was sheltered by a small wooden canopy on curly brackets.

The station had a long, single platform on the down side of the line, with a wide canopy supported by a brick wall; the canopy also covered a concourse at the end of the platform. The canopy was not built to a standard GWR design. In 1883 the company commissioned John Wilson to act as an assistant engineer. He worked for Edward Wilson and Co who were principally employed working on new lines for the Great Eastern Railway and, at that time, the Mildenhall branch. The Staines canopy was therefore a copy of the style used on the Mildenhall line. Immediately after the work was finished, Wilson took permanent employment with the GER as their company engineer, and the design of valancing used at Staines was to become GER standard over the next 30 years.

The original back door of the house, which had once opened onto a garden, now opened onto the station concourse. While the upper floor of the building was retained as accommodation for the stationmaster and his family, all the lower floor rooms were utilised. The main entrance hall was protected by a small canopy at the front of the building and opened directly into the concourse. On entering the hall from the road there were two doors on the right: one was an office, the other a bicycle room. The booking office was on the left and led into the large stationmaster's office. Next to the booking office was the general waiting room which also had a door onto the concourse. Once on the concourse the platform was to the right and to the left there was a short section of platform facing onto the end of the run-round loop line. A single-storey brick extension faced onto this short section of platform. This housed form south - north the gents' toilet, porter's room and ladies’ waiting room.

The goods yard was mainly on the down side of the line but there were two sidings on the up side; one of these served a standard GWR-design single-road through engine shed which opened with the extension, whilst the other served cattle pens and a dock, with road access from Moor Lane. There was a well close to the north-east corner of the shed and a water column, with a circular steel tank above it, on the approach line into the shed. A 14-lever signal box was provided on the approach to the station, between the goods sidings and the main line.

The remainder of the goods yard was entered through a gate between the station building and Pound Mill. At the end of a short access road were the weigh bridge and weigh office. There were three sidings on the down side, one running to an end dock behind the platform, one running through a large brick goods shed and terminating near the weighbridge, and a third curving round the north side of the goods shed and through the yard into Frederick Walton's linoleum factory. The works, which closed in 1949, was rail served from May 1887 and, as can be seen from the maps below, it possessed an extensive internal rail network. During WW1 the factory was requisitioned for military use, which brought additional traffic to Staines.  The site of the linoleum factory is now occupied by Two Rivers shopping centre. Other buildings in the yard included a permanent way store, a tool store and an oil store. A 6-ton crane was sited between the two outer sidings, on the approach to the goods shed.

During WW2 the line was considered useful as a diversionary route, so a connection to the Southern Railway was made just north of Staines station. After the war it was suggested that Staines (GWR) should close, with trains from West Drayton being diverted to Staines Central, using the new curve. The proposal was dropped following objections from the Southern Railway. The junction at Staines was severed on 16 December 1947, and the spur was lifted shortly afterwards. After nationalisation British Railways operated two Stations called Staines, so the former Great Western station was renamed Staines West on 26 September 1949. BR(WR) half-flanged totem name signs were installed showing the station’s new name.

In June 1952 the engine shed was closed and within three years had been demolished. The pit between the rails survived, as did the water crane, but although these could be used if needed, the locomotive allocation was transferred to Southall.

Goods traffic was withdrawn from Staines West from 2 November 1953 (the 68th anniversary of the opening of the line) with no goods service running south of Colnbrook. On 4 October 1958 DMUs took over the local passenger service, which made the run-round loop redundant. Despite the closure of the goods yard in 1953 the signal box had remained open although it was not actually required, and eventually it closed on 20 April 1960.

Although the line was recommended for closure in the Beeching report in 1963 Staines West station was repainted at around the same time. In 1964 the sidings were lifted, and the buildings were demolished to make way for a new oil storage depot with a siding long enough to take twelve tank wagons. On 19 June 1964 the new Shell Mex and BP private siding opened, and in October of that year a service of oil trains was introduced between Purfleet and Staines. In the same month all additional passenger workings which had operated at peak times were withdrawn. The branch closed to passengers on 29 March 1965.

The station remained largely intact for many years after closure. Its platform edge stones had gone by the end of the 1960s, but the canopy remained.

Meanwhile, freight workings continued to operate, and by 1975 there were fifteen oil trains over the branch each week. However the construction of the M25 motorway resulted in complete closure of the south end of the line, and the last working into Staines West ran in January 1981. A connection was laid between the oil depot and the Southern Region line, but this closed ten years later and was subsequently removed, and the depot was demolished. The last passenger train to Staines West was the Farewell to Staines West Branch railtour on 24 January 1981 - although this did not actually reach Staines West, being diverted onto the Southern via the new curve just short of the station.

By the mid 1980s the platform and canopy had been removed, and the station building had been converted into offices. Two of the cast iron supports for the canopy were repositioned and turned through 90 degrees to serve as lamp posts. At this time the track was still in place and used as a siding for the adjacent oil depot. The track was removed when the depot closed in 1991. The rear of the station site was further modernised in the early 2000s when a new car park for the offices was built at the rear of the building. A short section of track was embedded in the car park on the site of the platform with a buffer at its north end. A new housing estate was built on the north end of the station and former goods yard.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE STAINES WEST BRANCH
Staines is a small market town on the London to Exeter Road at an important crossing of the River Thames. The town had lost status with the arrival of the railway age, but the opening of the Windsor, Staines & South Western Railway on 22 August 1848, linking it with London, had encouraged the growth of local industries. By the mid 1860s these included a large brewery, mustard mills, a papier-mâché factory and the world’s first linoleum works, producing the floor covering invented in the town in 1860-63 by Frederick Walton. With the GWR main line only six miles to the north across ‘easy railway country’, the business interests in the town, hoping to lower freight rates and open up new outlets, were turning their attention to a route first used by three unsuccessful Uxbridge & Staines Bills of the 1840s. After the failure of a Bill deposited in 1863 for a West Drayton & Staines Railway, one of two similar schemes deposited in November 1865 became the Colnbrook Railway Act of 1866, comprising a single standard gauge line running south from the south side of the GWR station at West Drayton to the LSWR Windsor branch at Staines Moor. The proposals included a line passing below the GWR at West Drayton to allow through running between Uxbridge and Staines.

On 13 July 1866 the GWR agreed to work the line for half the gross receipts, but the powers to build it expired before the £60,000 capital could be raised. A second Act of 7 July 1873, authorised the 5m 2f 9·2ch Staines & West Drayton Railway over the same route, joining the LSWR 43ch north-west of the bridge over Staines High Street, but omitting the through link to theUxbridge branch at West Drayton. This time the LSWR reacted with some vigour to the invasion of its territory, opposing the Bill by alleging that the proposed junction at Staines would be dangerous and the extra traffic impossible to accommodate at the existing Staines station, which had not been built as a terminus.

These objections produced a clause in the Act which required that the line be built only to standard gauge, which would restrict any expansionist tendencies on the part of a still largely broad gauge GWR.

The Staines & West Drayton Railway Company formed by the 1873 Act suffered a long period of negotiations and frustrations before the line was built. These delays required time extensions in 1878 and 1881 when an alteration to the GWR junction was approved. This took the new line under the GWR to join the Uxbridge line before running in to the north side of West Drayton station.

During this period, the local company even approached the LNWR suggesting that the new line could form part of a new route around the west side of London, which would bring LNWR trains from Watford via the proposed Uxbridge & Rickmansworth Railway, the GWR branch to Uxbridge and new line south of Staines, and on to the SER and LBSCR via Leatherhead and Dorking. This move did nothing to improve relationships with the LSWR, driving the S&WDR deeper into the clutches of the still somewhat reluctant GWR. An agreement was at last signed on 13 November 1882, which confirmed that the GWR would work and maintain it after the first six months in return for half the gross receipts.

Not wanting to antagonise the LSWR further by pursuing the original proposal of a joint station, the GWR insisted on an independent terminus to handle both passenger and freight traffic. A new Bill was immediately put before Parliament to authorise this new station and a link with the LSWR north of the terminus.

In late 1881, the engineer A. Thuey agreed to construct the line for £89,000, and in March 1882, 7,500 shares of £10 each were made available to prospective investors. There was seemingly little interest however, as after two months only 314 of these had been sold, so the railway’s future was once again in question even though construction had already started.
There was still trouble ahead for the fledgling company and a lack of progress resulted in Thuey’s dismissal and a replacement builder being sought. On 9 June 1882 the contract was awarded to Messrs Lucas and Ansdell, and a new prospectus was issued. On hearing the news Thuey, who was still smarting from the company’s earlier action, made his feelings public and sued his former employers for damages. Protracted legal action was a drain on finances culminating in the appointment of a receiver. At this time the GWR came to the rescue with additional capital.

Messrs Lucas and Ansdell soon fell from favour and they also decided to take legal action for breach of contract. By this time the only money left was that advanced by the GWR, so the company was clearly in no position to take on a legal battle. As it was, the court had come down on the side of Thuey and granted him damages of £16,000 plus costs, a ruling described by the S & WDR chairman as ‘most extraordinary and outrageous’. Lucas and Ansdell also won their case, so there was only one course of action. The company re-employed Thuey as engineer for the Colnbrook to Staines section, whilst construction work would be handled by Lucas and Ansdell.

West Drayton station was re-sited to the east side of the road underbridge on 9 April 1884 with a modified platform layout to accommodate the new service from Staines. Somehow the section between West Drayton and Colnbrook was finished in time to allow the GWR to start six passenger trains a day on weekdays from Saturday 9 August 1884. Further progress southward was delayed by the continuing financial crisis, exacerbated by the withdrawal of labour when wages could not be paid. In an attempt to cut costs Thuey, saved £1,15O by adapting a house owned by Charles Waring Finch (of Finch & Rickman’s Mustard Mills) as the Staines terminus.

The company was eventually satisfied that the route was ready for opening and informed the Board of Trade accordingly. Colonel Rich inspected the Colnbrook - Staines stretch on 14 October 1885 and stated in his report that ‘a great deal still required to be done’; he refused to sanction opening and had to make a return trip on 26 October. This time he agreed that it was suitable for public use, and services commenced seven days later, opening for passenger traffic on 2 November 1885 when it was served by nine trains each way to and from West Drayton on weekdays. At first passenger receipts were poor as few people wished to cross this somewhat sparsely populated stretch of outer London. Apart from a little commercial and professional traffic between Uxbridge and Staines, or passengers seeking destinations on the GWR west of London, the trains were all but empty. The line took only £217 13s 7d during its first two months of operation as a complete branch. Freight traffic was also slow to develop despite the provision of yards at Colnbrook and Staines, but this gradually increased. In May 1887 a line was built across the river into the works of the now-prosperous Staines Linoleum Company, yet even this had to be shared with the LSWR, who were also invited into the factory.

Initially Colnbrook was the only intermediate station but, after closure of the ranges on Wimbledon Common, a Metropolitan Rifle Range Company was formed in 1890 to build new ranges near London for those Volunteers who were reluctant to travel to Bisley. One of the directors of the new rifle range company was also a director of the S & WDR, so perhaps it was no surprise that the chosen site for the new range was at Staines Moor, just west of the new line. The GWR agreed to provide a halt called Runemede, which opened with the ranges on 1 March 1892.

By then, possessing over 85% of the S & WDR issued stock of £161,640, the GWR acquired powers in its 1900 Act to take over and dissolve the company, which took effect from 1 July that year. At this time there were still only about eight trains daily to and from West Drayton, where they shared the north side island platform with the Uxbridge trains. One of the down workings ran mixed traffic, restricted to six vehicles, a feature which lasted until the 1930s.

A Sunday service started in 1887 with four trains each way. Once the GWR assumed full control there were some improvements, so that by 1912 there were 14 workings each way, a few operating to and from Paddington and Aldgate; between 1904 and 1911 there were even through runs between Staines and Victoria.

One-class steam auto-trains, introduced on Sundays from 1 October 1914, were later extended to weekdays, so that by 1 January 1916 all but one train was of this type. In October 1921 there were 16 journeys each way daily, with departures from West Drayton between 7.23am and 10.28pm; on Sundays there were seven each way between 10.12am and 9.52pm.

Use of the Staines Linoleum Factory for military purposes and opening of camps around Staines provided new traffic during WW1, but afterwards the more relaxed tempo of what was essentially a ‘country branch’ was quickly resumed.

Freight remained more important than passengers, not that the latter were neglected. At the time when the GWR was trying to extract the last ounce of business from its investment in branch lines by opening many new halts, the Staines line was not overlooked. On 11 July 1927, Stanwell Moor & Poyle Halt (renamed Poyle for Stanwell Moor on 26 September 1927) was opened 65ch south of Colnbrook to serve the explosives works, Stanwell Moor village and scattered farmhouses west of the line. The service on weekdays remained at about the same level through the 1920s and 1930s, but rush-hour workings of five coaches, generally hauled by 2-6-2T, ran to and from Paddington, missing the branch halts. Sunday services were built up to 14 each way between 9.02am and 9.58pm from West Drayton.

War again brought change when the authorities felt that the line had some strategic potential, seeing a role in bringing traffic from the North and Midlands safely round into Feltham Yard or other points in south and south-east England, should the London river crossings be severed by enemy action. To achieve this a curve, closely following the 1873 Act alignment, was built from a point south of Yeoveney (formerly Runemede Range) Halt to the Southern Railway's Windsor branch at Staines Moor Junction, north-west of the GWR terminus. At West Drayton, double-track was installed from the junction with the Uxbridge branch to the bridge under the main line. All was ready in June 1940, but no use was made of the new link until 15 September that year after the Metropolitan Extension at Snow Hill (Holborn Viaduct) had been blocked by bomb damage. Thereafter, for a few years train crews occasionally found their goods trains routed this way to and from the GWR at Greenford, but this ceased with the end of the war. 

There was a suggestion that the GWR terminus should be closed, diverting trains from West Drayton into the SR station over the wartime link. The Southern resisted, stating that this would require improvements to be made at their station. The proposal was dropped, and the junction at Staines Moor was taken out on 16 December 1947.

With the coming of nationalisation, the infant British Railways found itself with two stations called Staines, so from 26 September 1949 that on the Southern was renamed Staines Central, whilst the Western branch terminus became Staines West.

Long awaited development finally arrived at this west London backwater in 1946 with the opening of London Airport (Heathrow) and shortly afterwards industrial estates began to appear alongside the branch between Poyle and Colnbrook. To serve one of these new estates, Poyle Estate Halt, with a 50ft platform and tiny concrete shelter, was opened on 4 January 1954, about half-way between Poyle and Colnbrook. Trains stopped at rush hours, but at other times by request only. On the same day, two extra journeys were provided, making 18 each way daily and 12 on Sundays. Steam remained supreme on this untypical London line, where most trains were push-pull units of two saloons (some former GWR railmotors) powered by 14XX 0-4-2T. Freight was usually handled by 57XX 0-6-0PT and 61XX 2-6-2T.

South of the factory estate belt, the line retained much of its rural character through the 1950s, although its peace was increasingly shattered by aircraft noise. Yeoveney, a miraculous survival from a gentler, romantic era, was now frequented only by occasional fishermen. The halt was eventually closed ‘due to the cost of repair’ after the last trains had called on 13 May 1962.

Other more important changes were made in these post-war years. Freight movements south of Colnbrook ceased on 30 October 1953 when all such traffic was transferred to Staines SR yard. By some bureaucratic oversight, the signal box at Staines West was left open although there was never more than one train on the line at a time south of Colnbrook and the engine shed had closed in June 1952.

GWR AEC-type diesel railcars appeared on some passenger workings in January 1954, taking over all weekday services outside peak hours in the following year. Steam survived until 5 October 1958, after which the whole service was operated by new BR DMUs. Passenger traffic reached its peak at this time; although daily journeys remained at 18 each way on weekdays, on Sundays there were now 16 trips to and from Staines West with a last departure from West Drayton at 10.43pm. Except for the first three weekday trains in the morning and two in the evening which called at Poyle Estate and Yeoveney halts, notice to the guard at West Drayton or Staines West was necessary if one wished to alight at these places at other times. Yet another halt was opened on 1 May 1961 between Colnbrook and West Drayton. Operated as a conditional stop, Colnbrook Estate Halt had a short platform similar to that at Poyle Estate. As a result of its opening there were now four stopping places on the branch in little over a mile. Because the precise times of request stops at the halts were not always stated in the Western Region public timetable some fiendishly complex footnotes were provided instead: these challenged any intending passengers to work out for themselves when the trains called and informed them of the correct procedure for joining, or alighting from, trains.

The Western Region route from Staines to central London was not ideal for commuting. The distance between the branch terminus and Paddington was 19miles 39chains, and journeys often involved a change at West Drayton. The Southern line from Staines Central however, although of similar length, offered the convenience of regular through services and the efficiency of electric traction. The only advantage of travelling from Staines West was that the trains were less crowded and it was easier to find a seat!

However traffic results in 1960 were such that BR could not make a convincing case for closure when this was suggested as a means of reducing the cost of the Staines by-pass road, then under construction. Beeching’s accountants were able to show in 1962 that, by their standards, the branch was not ‘paying its way’, so passenger closure was listed in the Reshaping of British Railways report of March 1963. The formal proposal of closure was published on 6 September 1963, and the Secretary of State for Transport agreed on 10 September 1964 that passenger services should be withdrawn. Extra workings at rush hours were discontinued in October 1964, and the last passenger train ran on Saturday 27 March 1965, Sunday workings having ceased late in 1961; the formal closure date was 29 March 1965. Alternative public transport was provided by buses following a meandering route between West Drayton and Staines.

Meanwhile freight underwent a minor revival. During 1964 the Staines West goods yard was demolished to make room for an oil storage depot served by a siding accommodating 12 tank wagons. From October that year freight trains were again seen south of Colnbrook, bringing oil from Purfleet to the new depot. In 1975 there were 15 trains a week carrying between 1,200 and 1,500 tons of oil. Colnbrook was in that year receiving oil trains at an average of 75 a week (6,000 to 7,500 tons) and also about 10 tons of scrap metal a week. At the same time oil was coming into Thorney Mills, between Colnbrook and West Drayton, in an average of 24 trains a week (1,000 tons); 10 trains a week of stone (3,000 tons) were also arriving. In addition this depot dispatched scrap metal at the rate of 360 tons a week.

The construction of the M25 motorway resulted in complete closure of the south end of the line south of Colnbrook, and the last working into Staines West ran in January 1981. A connection was laid between the oil depot and the Southern Region line, but this closed ten years later and was subsequently removed. The last passenger train to run between West Drayton and Staines West was the BR (WR) Farewell to Staines West Branch railtour on 24 January 1981. This DMU tour from Paddington did not actually reach Staines West, running instead onto the new spur to Staines Central and on to Windsor & Eton Riverside; it followed the same route on its return journey. This was the only passenger train that ran between the Staines West branch and Staines Central. Freight trains still run from West Drayton to Colnbrook, serving an aggregates depot and an aviation fuel terminal for Heathrow Airport.

Following a period of public consultation in 1998, BAA submitted plans on the 24 July 2009 to the Secretary of State for Transport seeking authorisation under the Transport and Works Act to acquire the necessary land and begin constructing the Heathrow Airtrack which would incorporate a short section of the former Staines West route. This new line, as proposed by BAA, would have run from Heathrow Terminal 5 into central London and across the suburbs of south-west London. Work had been forecast to begin in 2011, with rail services operating by 2015. However in April 2011 BAA announced that it was abandoning the project due to lack of money. In October 2011 Wandsworth Council announced a revised plan called Airtrack-Lite.

Between Colnbrook and Staines Moor the track has been lifted and the formation built over in several places. Part of the viaduct at Staines Moor is used as a footpath, and the trackbed can be walked from just north of Staines West station to a short distance beyond Yeoveney Halt, where the former formation is lost under the M25. The trackbed reappears just south of Horton Road by junction 14 on the M25 and can be walked through the site of Poyle Halt. North of Horton Road the bed is heavily overgrown as it passes along the east side of Poyle Industrial Estate. It is passable with difficulty during the winter but virtually impassable during the summer without a machete or something similar.

Tickets from Chris Totty. Michael Stewart, Graham Larkbey and Brian Halford, route map drawn by Alan Young, Bradshaw from Chris Hind   

Other web sites: The Western Way to London by Keith Jaggers. (5.56M download)
Abandoned stations includes pictures of the Staines West branch in 2002
See a film (9mins) of the UK Railtours Concrete Cow Railtour which visited the Brentford and Colnbrook branches on 28 January 2012.

Sources:

To See other stations on the Staines West branch click on the station name: West Drayton, Colnbrook Estate Halt, Colnbrook, Poyle Estate Halt, Poyle Halt for Stanwell Moor & Yeoveney Halt

See also Staines High Street

Staines West Station Gallery 1: 1930s - March 1956

A two-car auto-train stands at Staines West station in the 1930s with a 517 class 0-4-2T sandwiched
between the two vehicles.
P
hoto from the J E Connor collection



1879 1:2,500 OS map shows the station building before the coming of the railway. The west wing was somewhat longer and was partly demolished when the S & WDR acquired the building for their terminus. The company also added an entrance porch so the wing appears wider in the maps below.

1896 1:2,500 OS map. The station building was originally the mill owner's house. Click here for a larger version.

On a winter’s day in the 1930s the station is seen on the left with Pound Mill (now
demolished) on the right.


Staines West station frontage on a wet day c. 1940s.


Staines West single-road engine shed in 1948. The wagon body on the left was placed over a well that supplied water to the tank and water column, seen on the right. The shed closed in 1952 and was quickly demolished, although the pit was retained.


A GWR GEC-Railcar stands at Staines West station in July 1955.
Photo by Alan A Jackson

Staines West looking towards the buffers in August 1955. The run-round loop is seen in the foreground.
Copyright photo by H C Casserley

A GWR GEC-Railcar stands at Staines West station in March 1956. These railcars provided the local service from West Drayton until 1958 when DMUs replaced them.
Copyright photo by H C Casserley


A GWR AEC Railcar departs from Stains West on a local service to West Drayton in March 1956. In the foreground is the base of the engine shed which was demolished in 1952. The pit was left open in case it should be required for servicing. The line on the far right served the cattle dock.
Copyright photo by H C Casserley

Click here for Staines West Station Gallery 2:
March 1956 - c1962



 

 

 

[Source: Nick Catford]




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