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Croxley Green Station Geograph-3338698-by-Ben-Brooksbank
Croxley may refer to : * Croxley Green, a parish in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom **Croxley tube station, a station on the London Underground in Croxley Green **Croxley Rail Link, a proposed rail re-route of the London Underground at Croxley Green **Croxley Green railway station Croxley Green railway station is a disused terminus between Rickmansworth and Watford on the A412 road at the end of a short branch line. History The station was opened in 1912 by the London and North Western Railway as the terminus of the bra ..., a disused railway station ** Croxley Green Windmill, a Grade II listed building in Croxley Green {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croxley Green
Croxley Green is both a village and a suburb of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is also a civil parish. Located on the A412 between Watford to the northeast and Rickmansworth to the southwest, it is approximately northwest of central London. Croxley Green has changed considerably in the years since John Dickinson built paper mills in the area. The area has grown into a semi-urban community, thanks to Croxley tube station on the Metropolitan line providing connections to London's West End at Baker Street and stations through to the City at Aldgate. The population at the 2011 Census was 12,562. Croxley Green is a part of the UK Parliament constituency, South West Hertfordshire. Gagan Mohindra is the Member of Parliament since the December 2019 United Kingdom general election. History Croxley Green has a large village green. The Croxley Green Windmill was built and survives today converted to residential accommodation. The Green holds an annual village fair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croxley Tube Station
Croxley is a London Underground station located on Watford Road ( A412) in Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, on the Watford branch of the Metropolitan line. It is the only intermediate station on the branch between , on the main line from to , and the terminus at . It is in Travelcard Zone 7. History Croxley station opened on 2 November 1925 as "Croxley Green" on the Metropolitan Railway's extension to with lines connecting both and . However, this led to confusion as there was another Croxley Green opened by the LNWR in 1912, so it was renamed to "Croxley" in 1949. There had been shuttles running to and from Rickmansworth stations regularly but was withdrawn in January 1960, later reinstated in 1987 but only one in early morning and late evenings each way. The shuttles to Rickmansworth were later extended to Amersham following the introduction of the longer S8 Stock trains. Metropolitan Line Extension The Croxley Rail Link is a railway engineering project which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croxley Rail Link
The Croxley Rail Link, or the Metropolitan Line Extension, is a proposed railway engineering project in the Watford and Three Rivers districts of Hertfordshire, England, that would have connected the London Overground and the London Underground's Metropolitan line at . If the link were to go ahead, the Metropolitan line's terminus at Watford Underground station would be closed and the line diverted and extended from Croxley to Watford Junction via a reopened section of closed line. The main proponent of the scheme has been Hertfordshire County Council but it failed to win the support of Transport for London (TfL) which owns the Watford branch. see section 6.3.6 The engineering works would have consisted of the realignment of the disused Watford and Rickmansworth Railway's line between and , with the construction of a viaduct over the Grand Union Canal, River Gade and A412 road and two new stations before branching into the London Overground line near and continuing to . Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croxley Green Railway Station
Croxley Green railway station is a disused terminus between Rickmansworth and Watford on the A412 road at the end of a short branch line. History The station was opened in 1912 by the London and North Western Railway as the terminus of the branch line of the Watford-Rickmansworth line. The original wooden station building was burned in the early hours of 10 March 1913 by a group of Suffragettes. A goods yard opened just to the east of the station shortly after, which by 1939 it was expanded and a loop constructed from the southern to the northern siding. The London Midland Region of British Railways, and later Network SouthEast after sectorisation, continued to run services until 1996. Not far from the terminus, a depot was built to maintain BR trains, and for stabling 1938 tube stock Bakerloo line trains which closed in 1985. Seven years before closure, the original platform was removed due to safety concerns in 1989 and a wooden platform was built on the other side of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
