Apsley station, 1991, geograph-3234868-by-Ben-Brooksbank

Apsley railway station is in Apsley, on the southern outskirts of

Hemel Hempstead Hemel Hempstead () is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of London, which is part of the Greater London Urban Area. The population at the 2011 census was 97,500. Developed after the Second World War as a new ...

, Hertfordshire,

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. One of two railway stations now serving the town, the other is

just up the line in

Boxmoor Boxmoor is part of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It is within the district of Dacorum and comprises mainly 19th-century housing and meadowland, with transport links from London to the Midlands. At the 2011 Census, the population of Boxmoor wa ...

. The station is north west of

London Euston Euston railway station ( ; also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail. It is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line, the UK's busiest inter-city rail ...

on the

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. Apsley is managed and train services are operated by

London Northwestern Railway West Midlands Trains (WMT) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom. It operates passenger trains on the West Midlands franchise between London and the English Midlands under two trade names: West Midlands Railway (WMR) (within the ...

History

The station was designed by the architect

William Henry Hamlyn William Henry Hamlyn FRIBA (16 February 1889 – 1968) was an architect based in England noted for his buildings for the London Midland and Scottish Railway. He was born in Wigan in Lancashire. He studied architecture with Reginald Wynn Owen in ...

and opened on 26 September 1938, to serve the paper producing area of Apsley Mill and Nash Mill, it was operated initially by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. The station then passed on to the

London Midland Region of British Railways The London Midland Region (LMR) was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR), and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England, Wales and Northern Irelan ...

on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by

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until the

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ways.

Services

Monday to Saturday a half-hourly service to London Euston southbound and

Tring Tring is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England. It is situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, from Central London. Tring is linked to ...

(Saturdays Milton Keynes Central) northbound. Evenings and Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction. A number of night and rush hour services are extended to and from and . There is also one train to and from on weekdays.GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Tables 66 & 67 (Network Rail)

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Station on navigable O.S. map.
Dacorum Railway stations in Hertfordshire DfT Category E stations Former London, Midland and Scottish Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1938 Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains William Henry Hamlyn buildings Stations on the West Coast Main Line {{EastEngland-railstation-stub