Platform, Platform Buildings And Bridge At Quainton Road Railway Station

The Quainton Road Railway Station platform buildings and bridge were constructed in 1897 for the Metropolitan Railway. The main “Up” platform building is of brown brick with red brick dressings and a slate roof, featuring two brick stacks and a glazed clerestory. It has a long, narrow plan with a central booking office and waiting room, flanked by smaller offices and lavatories, most rooms accessed separately from the exterior. The roadside elevation includes a central door sheltered by a projecting timber canopy with bargeboards, supported by cast-iron brackets. Timber sash windows with glazing bars to the upper lights are set within arched brick heads. A dentiled cornice is repeated in the eaves at gable ends and in the chimney stacks. Similar windows are present in the end and platform elevations. The booking hall has glazed doors within a broad, glazed surround and overlights, with access to subsidiary offices and the Ladies' lavatory. A broad timber canopy runs the full length of the platform elevation, alongside a sign and timber post for fire buckets and a nearby water pump. A door to the Gentlemen's lavatory is located under a gable in the east elevation. The booking hall retains dado matchboard panelling, a timber panelled door, a fireplace, and bench seating. A smaller office contains telecommunications equipment from the mid-20th century. The Gentleman’s lavatory features timber screens, slate stalls, and clerestory glazing.

A smaller “Down” platform building, constructed of timber with a curved asphalt roof, provides a single waiting room with central doors and symmetrically placed four-light timber windows. The interior showcases an exposed timber roof and bracing to the walls, with a fixed bench running the full length of the room.

The buildings are connected by a brick-fronted platform and a bridge of riveted cast-iron supported by brick piers, featuring lower balustrades of timber.

The station represents an exceptionally well-preserved example of a railway station from the 1890s. It was one of four stations built by the Metropolitan Railway in 1889 following its takeover of the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway (founded in 1868) between Aylesbury and Verney Junction; it is the only one to survive. The station passed to London Underground in 1932 and then to the London and North Eastern Railway in 1935. It closed to passengers in 1963 and to freight in 1966. Its lease to the Quainton Railway Society has ensured its remarkable state of preservation.