The LSWR had refused access to its station because the SWDR was operated by the rival Great Western Railway (GWR).

The two companies competed to Windsor and Reading, Berkshire and the LSWR regarded the SWDR as encroaching on its territory in Staines.

The building was a 19th-century villa of London stock brick that had been built for the owner of the adjacent Pound Mill on the River Colne.

Tracks and a goods yard were laid north of the house and a single platform with a short canopy was built.

[1][2][3] After closure to passengers the goods yard was demolished and a rail-accessed oil storage depot built in its place in 1964.