Station Name: CROXLEY GREEN

 

[Source: Nick Catford]


Date opened: 15.6.1912
Location: On the south side of roundabout on Watford Road
Company on opening: London & North Western Railway
Date closed to passengers: 22.3.1996
Date closed completely: 22.3.1996
Company on closing: British Rail
Present state: Extant and overgrown
County: Hertfordshire
OS Grid Ref: TQ088958
Date of visit: April 1998

Notes: The station has been resited a short distance to the east of the original terminus. After 17.5.1993 there was only one train each way per day.

The station has never been officially closed but the service was withdrawn after 22nd March 1996 to facilitate the widening of Ascot Road which involved the demolition of the road bridge. This was supposed to be a temporary closure but despite several proposals the line has never re-opened.


The original terminus at Croxley Green

One proposal in 2001 involved a link to the Metropolitan Line with a new section of track passing to the north of the disused Croxley Green station. Watford Metropolitan station would be closed; after Croxley, Metropolitan trains would call at Ascot Road (new station), Watford West (reopened), Watford High Street and Watford Junction. The track from Watford West to Croxley Green would be permanently abandoned.

For more pictures of Croxley Green and the Watford - Croxley Green branch line see the Abandoned Tube Stations web site.


Croxley Green Station in April 1998, two years after the last train ran
P
hoto by Nick Catford

This map has been altered to show the present site of Croxley Green Station. Originally it was butting up to the A412

Croxley Green Station in 2004
Photo by Dave Dew

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[Source: Nick Catford]

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