St Albans Abbey railway station

St Albans Abbey
Location
Place	St Albans
Local authority	St Albans
Coordinates	51°44′41″N 0°20′33″W / 51.7447°N 0.3426°W / 51.7447; -0.3426Coordinates: 51°44′41″N 0°20′33″W / 51.7447°N 0.3426°W / 51.7447; -0.3426
Grid reference	TL145063
Operations
Station code	SAA
Managed by	London Northwestern Railway
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13	0.195 million
2013/14	0.180 million
2014/15	0.142 million
2015/16	0.165 million
2016/17	0.165 million
History
Original company	London and North Western Railway[1]
Post-grouping	LMS
5 May 1858	Opened as St Albans[1]
2 June 1924	Renamed as St Albans Abbey[1]
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at St Albans Abbey from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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St Albans Abbey railway station in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England is about 0.6 miles (1 km) south of the city centre in the St Stephen's area. It is the terminus of the Abbey Line from Watford Junction, operated by London Northwestern Railway. It is one of two stations in St Albans, the other being the much larger and busier St Albans City.

The unstaffed station consists of a single open-air platform and a car park. Improvement works were carried out in 2008.

It was the second UK railway station to receive a Harrington Hump to improve accessibility.^[2]

Contents

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  1 History
  
  
  
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    1.1 Branch to Hatfield
    
  
  
  
  


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  2 Accidents and incidents
  


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  3 Services
  


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  4 References
  
  
  
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    4.1 Notes
    
  
  
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    4.2 Sources
    
  
  
  
  


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  5 External links
  

History

A 1902 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of St Albans Abbey (lower left, shown here as L.&N.W.)

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[ v t e ] Railway stations in St Albans
Legend
Midland Main Line to The North St Albans City St Albans Abbey St Albans (London Road) Park Street Sanders Siding Abbey line to Watford Junction Salvation Army Halt Hertfordshire County Mental Hospital Hill End Hatfield to St Albans Line Midland Main Line to London St Pancras

St Albans Abbey station in June 1977

St Albans Abbey was the first railway station in St Albans, built by the London and North Western Railway in 1858. It was, as it is now, a terminus; the company's plans to extend northwards to Luton and Dunstable never materialised. Although the Midland Railway opened their station (St Albans City) in 1868, it was not until 1924 that "Abbey" was added to the station's title to avoid confusion - by this stage, both stations were owned by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Until November 2007 responsibility for the branch line was with Silverlink.

Restoration of the passing loop at Bricket Wood was being considered by the local authorities and Network Rail but was turned down in early 2008; this would have facilitated trains running every 30 minutes.

Branch to Hatfield

In 1865, the Great Northern Railway supported a group of local landowners to open a branch line from Hatfield to St Albans Abbey with an intermediate stop at St Albans London Road, and later at Smallford (1866), Salvation Army Halt (1901), Hill End (1899), Nast Hyde Halt (1910) and Lemsford Road Halt (1942). This line closed to passengers in 1951.^[3] Goods services were withdrawn from the end of 1968^[4] and the track was lifted. In the mid-1980s, the route was opened as a cycle path, now the Alban Way. The remains of the branch can be seen to the left of the single platform when looking down the line in the direction of Watford Junction, including overgrown remnants of the second platform which would have served the branch.

Accidents and incidents

• On 10 February 1988, a diesel multiple unit overran the buffer stop. There were no injuries amongst the seventeen passengers on board.^[5]
  

Services

Trains operate to Watford Junction every 45 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime, every 60 minutes weekday evenings and on Sundays.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Park Street		London Northwestern Railway Abbey Line		Terminus
	Disused railways
Terminus		Great Northern Railway Hatfield and St Albans Railway		St Albans (London Road) Line and station closed

References

Notes

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   ^ ^abc Butt 1995, p. 202
   


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3. 
   ^ Nick Catford (23 March 2006). "Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites: St. Albans London Road". Retrieved 28 February 2007.
   


4. 
   ^ "The Alban Way" (PDF). St Albans Cycle Campaign. 21 July 2005. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 January 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2007.
   


5. 
   ^ McCrickard, John P (6 October 2016). "January 1988 to December 1988". Network South East Railway Society. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
   

Sources

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  Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  


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  Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  


• Abbeyline.org.uk


• The Alban Way

External links

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  Train times and station information for St Albans Abbey railway station from National Rail
  

v t e Railway stations in Hertfordshire
Abbey line	St Albans Abbey Park Street How Wood Bricket Wood Garston Watford North Watford Junction
East Coast Main Line	(from Edinburgh Waverley) Hitchin Stevenage Knebworth Welwyn North Welwyn Garden City Hatfield Welham Green Brookmans Park Potters Bar (to London King's Cross)
Hertford East branch line	Hertford East Ware St Margarets Rye House Broxbourne
Hertford Loop Line	Stevenage Watton-at-Stone Hertford North Bayford Cuffley (to Moorgate)
Cambridge line	(from Cambridge) Royston (Ashwell and Morden) Baldock Letchworth Garden City Hitchin
Lea Valley lines	Cheshunt via Southbury (from London Liverpool Street) Theobalds Grove Cheshunt Hertford East via Tottenham Hale (from London Liverpool Street) Waltham Cross Cheshunt Broxbourne Rye House St Margarets Ware Hertford East
London–Aylesbury line	(from London Marylebone) Moor Park Rickmansworth Chorleywood (to Aylesbury Vale Parkway)
Thameslink	(from Bedford) Harpenden St Albans City Radlett Elstree & Borehamwood (to Brighton)
Watford DC line	Watford Junction Watford High Street Bushey Carpenders Park (to London Euston)
West Anglia Main Line	(from Cambridge) Bishop's Stortford Sawbridgeworth (Harlow Mill Harlow Town Roydon) Broxbourne Cheshunt (to London Liverpool Street)
West Coast Main Line	(from London Euston) Bushey Watford Junction Apsley Kings Langley Hemel Hempstead Berkhamsted Tring (to Glasgow Central)

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