Summary : Ruislip station, with its associated signal box, was built in 1904 for the Harrow and Uxbridge Railway and was modified in 1928 by the Metropolitan Railway. It is constructed from buff brick with orange bands and a replacement tile roof of circa 1900 date. The station comprises a range of single storey depth buildings on the down platform with a later building on the up platform. The station yard elevation has has a central gable projecting forward with a doorway flanked by windows and a plain entrance canopy on brackets. There are wings on either side of this with an additional small wing to the left. The platform elevation has a seven bay canopy on cast iron columns carrying brackets with quatrefoils in the spandrels and steel beams supporting a replacement corrugated sheet roof. The interior of the booking hall is full height with the roof supported on wide queen post trusses. There is a standard wrough iron lattice girder footbridge with added roof, which dates from 1904 but was moved to its present location in 1928. The up platform building is shown as being under construction on a 1928 photograph held in Ruislip Library. It has plain brick walls with a canopy on steel supports. At the north end of the up platform sits the signal box which is also of 1904 date and was restored circa 1990, although it is now disused. It has a yellow brick locking room with timber frame above and a hipped slate roof. The track elevation is of three bays but the windows are now blocked by diagonal boarding. Inside, the lever frame is said to remain. The station was built by the Harrow and Uxbridge Railway in 1904. The line was worked from the beginning by the Metropolitan Railway who took over the company in 1905 and converted the line to electric traction. The station became an intermediate stop on the Piccadilly Line in 1910 and was vested in the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933. |