Queenstown Road is a

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in inner south-west

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, south-west of , between and . It is a short walk from Battersea Park station and

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to the west. It has three platforms, two of which are in use by all stopping services related to the

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: its branch services to

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(via Hounslow) and two separate sets of bidirectional Waterloo-to-Waterloo services via Hounslow using the Hounslow Loop and via Kingston using the Kingston Loop. In addition, 50% of maximum peak hour trains serving the Shepperton branch line call at the station.

History

The station was opened on 1 November 1877, by the

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, as ''Queen's Road (Battersea)''. The entrance still bears the name Queen's Road, not to be confused with Queens Road Peckham, Walthamstow Queen's Road or Queensway Underground station, which was also originally called Queens Road. Queen's Road was also the name of the road in which the station is located. Named after

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, after the Second World War the street's name was changed to Queenstown Road. The station was renamed ''Queenstown Road (Battersea)'', to go with the road, on 12 May 1980. The station's modern entrance and platform signage lacks the "(Battersea)" suffix that appears in timetables and on some maps. The latest "Oyster Rail Services" map produced by Transport for London shows the station as plain "Queenstown Road". On the map produced by the station managers, South West Trains, the station is called "Queenstown Road".

Services

Queenstown Road is on the early stage of the

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but with only 2 platforms in use. The off-peak frequency in trains per hour is: *Northbound: **8 to

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*Southbound: **2 to

via

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and Staines **4 on the Hounslow Loop back to

: ***2 clockwise via

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and

***2 anti-clockwise via

and

**2 on the Kingston Loop (anti-clockwise) via

and Kingston, back to

Connections

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routes

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, 156,

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and night route N137 serve the station.

Future

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plans to reopen Platform 1 at Queenstown Road to permit the segregation of Windsor and Mainline services flows, providing additional capacity on the approach to London Waterloo.

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{{SWT Stations, Windsor=y, Hounslow=y, Kingston=y, Main line None=y, IL None=y Railway stations in the London Borough of Wandsworth DfT Category F1 stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1877 Former London and South Western Railway stations Railway stations served by South Western Railway Buildings and structures in Battersea