Royal Oak

Because it’s on the First Great Western line that takes me from Paddington to Reading, I’ve been to Royal Oak station a shedload of times. I’ve just never stopped there. This weekend, I was sightseeing in the West End and made a point of going here to see if the rest of the station looked like it did from the intra-​city trains.
The station building is actually on the bridge over the rails, with stairs to the platform level. There are only three ticket barricades with Oyster readers and one wide barricade.
Not the busiest station in the system, the ticket booth is only staffed on weekday mornings. It is in Travelcard Zone 2 between Westbourne Park and Paddington on the Circle/​Hammersmith & City line. There is a nice view of Paddington from the east end of the platform.
I wouldn’t want to wait on the platform level for long in cold or wet weather — it is very exposed to the elements.