please empty your brain below
As I grew up in Watford just down the road from the Metropiltan Station I will be sad to see it go as it was once our lifeline to London.

Anthony Finerty | Homepage | 15.12.14 - 9:04 a.m. | #

Wow - I did this walk nearly three years ago now and the Croxley Green part has barely changed. Here's my blurry photos (I think I should go on a photography course, or something):

http://karenswalks.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/watford-disused-railway-walk-ebury-way-and-the-croxley-green-branch-and-cassiobury-park/

I do love that lattice bridge over the canal and I hope they find a reason to keep it there, rather than removing it.

Karen | Homepage | 15.12.14 - 9:09 a.m. | #

The plan AIUI is for the lattice bridge to stay, but who knows for how long as there will be a cost associated with its retention and I can't see the various agencies concerned (HCC/TfL/NR) falling over themselves to pay for it. I think the impromptu nature reserve at the old Croxley Green station is safe for much the same reason.

THC | 15.12.14 - 9:15 a.m. | #

R.E. the third link from "original wooden platform" ... cheeky! ;-)

David Fisher | 15.12.14 - 9:38 a.m. | #

A couple of my memories of this site.
I can remember starting my seaside holidays after the war by walking to Croxley Green station with my parents and my youngest sister in her Silver Cross type pram loaded with our luggage. Maybe it was a through train to London that we caught. Also access to the station was from the top of the nearby hill so there was no need to pull the pram up those stairs.
I also remember the lattice bridge being used as a location for some film/tv programme where the baddies were fixing explosives to the structure to blow it up. It doesn't seem that they succeeded.

popartist | 15.12.14 - 10:29 a.m. | #

@popartist
I think you may be confusing this station - to which the only entrance was up those steps, with somewhere else. Possibly the other Croxley Green station - renamed plain Croxley in 1949 to avoid such confusions - which had direct (Metropolitan Line) trains to Baker Street.

timbo | 15.12.14 - 12:59 p.m. | #

@timbo
I'm pretty sure access was from the level of the goods yard which later became a furniture factory and is now covered by housing. It was Croxley Green and not Croxley that I remember.

popartist | 15.12.14 - 4:11 p.m. | #

@popartist
Lookinbg at a picture from 1957 (the one half way down this page) it seems level access may have been possible via the Goods yard, (albeit it doesn't look very official) so I apologise for doubting you

timbo | 15.12.14 - 8:06 p.m. | #

@timbo
Best not doubt someone who says they once lived within suitcase-lugging distance of the station in question :)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.12.14 - 8:31 p.m. | #

An interesting picture of Croxley Green curve from 1921 with lots of factual information.

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw006195?search=croxley%20green&ref=0

Bernie | 16.12.14 - 9:18 a.m. | #

There's a new update on the CRL website - now set for a spring 2018 opening date and an overall cost of £230m, almost double the original. Hmm.

THC | 18.12.14 - 11:43 a.m. | #











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