In addition, 50% of maximum peak hour trains serving the Shepperton branch line call at the station.

The station was opened on 1 November 1877, by the London and South Western Railway, as Queen's Road (Battersea).

[2] 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".

[7] Network Rail 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.