The station was originally built in 1840 but built up a bit in the 1950s.

Was just wondering what the f it is, I haven’t seen anything like it before.

Any ideas?

by Choice_Room3901

35 comments

  1. I’m new here so maybe it’s my ignorance, but I just see a wall.

  2. It’s a wall. Massive innovation at the time, taken for granted now.

  3. I imagine they might have built a wall there because that would be the part of the platform where engines stop, and it reduces some of the noise for the houses you can see in the background.

  4. The wall serves as a sound barrier for the homes that sit behind it

  7. Looks like you are about to be abducted by aliens perhaps, with purple tentacles coming down? Kudos and let us know how that goes.

  8. It’s a sound barrier and some privacy for the homes that sit by the track.

  9. I assumed sound barrier. Have seen them in a number of stations. Twickenham is another example off the top of my head.

    Edit: off not of

  11. That’s a platform. Standard fixture at most train stations, I think.

  13. I think they’re old fashioned advertising hoardings, you can see them at Vauxhall and Twickenham (before it was done up). Posters went in the inner square bits.

  16. It looks like a wall from here 👍 you’re welcome 😊

  17. Practice wall for graffiti artists before they move onto trains

  21. We have similar things on Long Island, NY, along the highways. It’s supposed to soften the noise for houses built along the roads.

  26. I believe it is Twickenham station. It was rebuilt and relocated in the 1950s. The wall is designed to have advertising posters attached to it.

  27. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s a wall, but I could be wrong. It might be a ceiling.

  28. These are old advertising hoarding walls. You’ll see them at Twickenham station too.

  29. “Please, stand back behind the yellow line!” It’s a security measure for passengers standing too close to the tracks. If it’s Twickenham, it’s the South Western Railways service, which recently became nationalised. If I recall correctly, just before it’s nationalised, they refreshed all the yellow lines on platforms.
    I cannot see if this platform is in use (Twickenham station has some that are not in use), if it’s not – probably, they still had to do it, because formally, I assume, it’s still the platform.

    UPD: Hahah, ignore my serious comment! I’ve read other comments, apparently the question was about the wall.

  30. We have a similar construction, it’s the remainder of the goods yard warehouse that used to be there. Can’t vouch for its sound insulation properties but it looks really nice.

  34. It’s actually quite a niche, sub-culture based art form, commonly known as graffiti. Where artists use cans of pressurised paint (not brushes) to daub their ‘street name’ onto anything that doesn’t move (or does 🚂) . Believe it or not it is actually illegal, like, against the law. Personally I can’t see it catching on?

  35. Everyone is saying sound barrier, which I’m sure it does allow for. This is however most likely a an advertisement screen. 1930s, posters and wall art would have been in there. I think this is Twickenham, could have provided Rugby match dates and information.

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