Date: 14/12/2011

Work on a £120m rail project that will change the face of Watford and Croxley Green has been approved by the Government. An official announcement that the long-running Croxley Rail Link project has been approved is due to take place tomorrow, the Watford Observer understands.

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Croxley Rail Link plan approved by Government

Watford Observer

Work on a £120m rail project that will change the face of Watford and Croxley Green has been approved by the Government.

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Scene on the Watford branch of the Metropolitan line on 25 September 2008 as a train crosses the Grand Union canal between Watford and Croxley.
Location: Croxley
Company: Watford Branch (Metropolitan Railway and London and North Eastern Railway Joint)
25/09/2008 Michael Gibb

Croxley Green (LNWR) station early one morning in December 1977. Terminus of a short electrified branch from Watford High Street, the station was then very well kept by a most helpful stationmistress. Train services (but not the station building) survived until 1996 when the line was severed as a result of construction of a new road. Still not formally closed, the branch may be merely resting, awaiting eventual linkage into the nearby Metropolitan line.
Location: Croxley Green
Company: Croxley Green Branch (London and North Western Railway)
/12/1977 Mark Dufton

A ticket for Watford West, issued at Euston on 28 June 1985. Either they'd run out of pre-printed tickets for this destination, or, more likely, never had any. I remember the guard when I changed at Watford Junction being convinced that the few passengers who got on his Croxley Green train must be on the wrong one and meant to go to Euston instead. Now (2009) Watford West has seen no trains for years, but is not officially closed! [See image 20360]
Location: Tickets and labels
Company: British Rail
28/06/1985 David Panton