Chorleywood Railway Station

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Chorleywood Railway Station

Chorleywood is a train station northwest of London in the Travelcard tariff zone 7. It is located at Station Approach in the village of Chorleywood , in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire . Chorleywood is one of 14 London Underground stations outside Greater London . 0.99 million underground passengers used the station in 2013, plus 0.632 million rail passengers.

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View of the platforms

The station has two through tracks, each with a side platform. The metro trains run on the Metropolitan Line and suburban trains run by the Chiltern Railways company . Almost all trains on the Metropolitan Line that run via Chorleywood are considered express trains, as they pass several stations on the way to Baker Street in the city center without stopping (except in the edge hours).

The double-lane section from the Croxleyhall Junction east of Rickmansworth to Amersham has a special operating situation: all trains, both the electric underground and diesel multiple units and freight trains of the railroad, use the same tracks.

history

The Metropolitan Railway (predecessor of the Metropolitan Line) opened the station on July 8, 1889 under the name Chorley Wood . The name of the station was changed three times: on November 1, 1915 to Chorley Wood & Chenies , in 1934 back to the original name Chorley Wood and in 1964 finally to Chorleywood . The underground lines northwest of Rickmansworth were the last of the entire network to be electrified on September 12, 1960. The last steam-powered train ran on September 10, 1961.

When the station opened, it was initially several hundred meters from the nearest settlement. In 1894 the investor James Beckley bought the area around the station and parceled it out. Within a few years a late Victorian settlement with over 150 buildings was built, the architectural style of which is predominantly influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement . The poet and journalist John Betjeman described the Bahnhofsiedlung of Chorleywood in 1973 incurred BBC -Dokumentationsserie as "the actual Metro-land " (the essential Metro-land) , that is a prime example of the deliberate creation of suburbs with upscale quality of life along stretches of Metropolitan Railway. Since 1990, the station and the surrounding settlement are as Chorleywood station estate conservation area under conservation .

Web links

Commons : Chorleywood Train Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Metropolitan Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 8, 2013 .
  4. ^ End of the line for a poet's scorn. The Daily Telegraph , June 5, 2002, accessed January 8, 2013 .
  5. ^ Chorleywood station estate conservation area. (PDF; 10.3 MB) Three Rivers District Council, November 2005, accessed on January 8, 2013 (English).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 15 ″  N , 0 ° 31 ′ 6 ″  W.