Croxley
The attractive station entrance at Croxley on the LUL's short Metropolitan Line branch to Watford, on 22nd May 2017. This line was a latecomer to the outer London network, not opening until 2nd November 1925 as a joint venture between the Metropolitan and LNER and Croxley station was originally called Croxley Green. To avoid confusion with the LNWR Croxley Green station, it was renamed on 23rd May 1949. The branch runs from a triangular junction between Moor Park and Rickmansworth with originally Metropolitan trains taking the south curve toward Moor Park and on into London (as they still do) while a shuttle service of LNER trains operated between Watford and Rickmansworth over the north curve but these ceased in 1934 after only nine years, since when the north curve has only been used by empty stock workings and occasional steam specials, apart from a few ex-Chesham public trains at the beginning and end of the day. (I am indebted to Bob McIntyre for this last piece of information.) The scheme to link this line to the by then disused Croxley Green branch, relay as far as Watford High Street and run Metropolitan Line trains into Watford Junction, which would have seen the 1925 Metropolitan terminus closed, was talked about for decades and was eventually given the go-ahead, only for this to be cancelled a year or so later.
See query 2195
Location: Croxley
Original line: Watford Branch (Metropolitan Railway and London and North Eastern Railway Joint)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: London Underground stations 2010-2023
Date: 22/05/2017
Image number: 71108
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