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Staines High Street railway station was a railway station that formerly served the town of Staines (now Staines-upon-Thames), on the Windsor & Eton line of the London and South Western Railway.
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History
It was opened on 1 July 1884 and closed on 1 February 1916 and was built for trains using the short West Curve (Chord) of a simple (at grade, that is on the level) three-direction junction of these two lines on a section of line on viaduct and embankment to suit the heightened elevation of line after merger with the London-oriented chord across the High Street's Iron Bridge and lower Colne and Staines Railway Bridge.
Demolition
When passenger services no longer ran via that chord it remained in use for occasional freight traffic until the mid-1960s after which the chord embankment was removed. A multi-level car park stands on the site of the chord with no remains of the station.