Croxley Green railway station

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Croxley Green

Location
Place	Croxley Green
History
Opened by	Watford and Rickmansworth Railway
Platforms	1
Key dates	Opened 1912 Closed 1996
Replaced by	Ascot Road (proposed)

Croxley Green was a railway station located in the town of Croxley to the west of Watford. In 1996 the station was "temporarily" closed and a bridge on the route removed to make room for a road-widening scheme. It was never replaced. Since 1991 the branch had been allowed to become increasingly run down in appearance and trains were infrequent and scheduled at inconvenient times, a process known as closure by stealth by rail user groups. This is because closing the station requires special powers. The minimum service required by law however is a once-monthly service, in one direction, which in this case is provided by "temporary" replacement buses. The station retains an active "live departure board" on the National Rail website and tickets to Croxley Green and Watford West are occasionally sold, which lead them to appear in the annual station usage statistics, from the analysis of which they are then deliberately excluded.

However, a proposal to reopen the Croxley Green branch to a point just short of the station and then link it to the nearby Metropolitan Railway Watford branch is under discussion.^[1] This would create a through route for Metropolitan Line trains. This station is proposed to be replaced by Ascot Road tube station.