The terminus.
According to the webpage featured in the link above, the Metropolitan
line is planned to be diverted from its present Watford terminus
to this line (and hence through to Watford Junction). However,
it will join onto it at a point between this station and the
next one (Watford West), thus causing the permanent abandonment
of this station. The red lamposts in the photo to the left of
the information sign, indicate the path up to the platform.
(photo: 2001)
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For a while, passengers wishing to reach this station
would have a cab ordered for them (presumably from Watford High
Street station). A protest at the line's closure would have been
interesting, if the number of people it would take to fill a
train, simultaneously demanded tickets to this station!
(photo: 2001)
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Signage still in situ in 2010.
©2010 Stephen Golding
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The platform for this station was originally on the
other side of the track but was demolished and replaced further
east by this lightweight offering.
For a site with a couple of photos of this station
in its original form (quite unrecognisable) click here.
(photo: 2001)
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As above, facing away from Watford toward the end
of the line. The disrepair the platform is in is obvious from
this photo.
(photo: 2001)
For further info: www.disused-stations.org.uk
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Dec 2005 and the makeshift platform has been removed
completely.
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Facing toward Croxley Green station.
(photo: 2001)
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Bridge over the Grand Union Canal - the line was severed
in 1996 by a new slip road beyond the fence just visible at the
end of the bridge. The subsequent application to close the line
was presumably seen as only a formality, as it was thus physically
impossible for a train to reach the Croxley Green terminus.
Is this a dangerous precedent; closing a line before official
permission has been granted?
(photo: 2001)
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