Watford Junction railway station

The first station in Watford was north of Saint Albans Road, but Watford Junction opened with the line to St Albans on 5 May 1858. The station was rebuilt in 1909, and was extensively redeveloped in the 1980s.

Previous services also ran from the West side of the station to branches serving Croxley Green and Rickmansworth (Church Street), both eventually being electrified on the same system as the DC line to Euston, at one time using tube trains to mitigate the effect of the voltage-drop caused by the lack of a sub-station near Rickmansworth. The Rickmansworth branch pre-dated the DC line and was connected to the Main Line via two through platforms with a junction to the north; these platforms have since been partly obstructed by building over and the remaining Southern sections now form part of the DC line terminus.

The Saint Albans branch originally terminated at a through platform adjacent to the Down Slow Main Line but was relocated further East to allow increased car parking; this was before the branch line was electrified.

The Bakerloo Line was extended to Watford Junction in 1917, providing shared services with mainline electric trains which served London Euston and Broad Street stations. However since 1982 the line north of Harrow & Wealdstone station has only been served by what is now the Silverlink Metro service from Euston station; this service uses these DC lines for its "all stations" local service.

West Coast Main Line

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		Edinburgh Waverley for ECML
		Haymarket
		Glasgow Central
		for SPT Network
		Motherwell for SPT Network
		Carstairs for SPT Network
		Carstairs South Junction
		Lockerbie
		Carlisle for Tyne Valley Line,
		Cumbrian Coast Line and
		Glasgow South Western Line
		Penrith
		Oxenholme Lake District
		for Windermere Line
		Lancaster
		Preston

		Wigan North Western
		Bolton
		Warrington Bank Quay
		Liverpool Lime Street
		Runcorn
		Weaver Junction

		Manchester Piccadilly

		Stockport
			Cheadle Hulme Junction
		Crewe North Junction
		Crewe
		Stoke-on-Trent
			Stone Junction
		Norton Bridge Junction
		Stafford

		Colwich Junction
		Lichfield Trent Valley
		Wolverhampton
		Tamworth
		Birmingham New Street
		Nuneaton
		Coventry

		Rugby for Birmingham Loop

		Northampton

		Milton Keynes Central
		Watford Junction
		London Euston

[edit] Future of the Station

After franchise changes scheduled for late 2007 it is possible that Bakerloo and/or other TfL services from London might replace the Silverlink Metro services. Until this is done, local train services to Euston will remain at 3tph, but trains will be twice as long. This proposal still remains an aspiration of TfL, but they hope this will be achieved by 2026.

Oyster Card capability will be extended to this station in November 2007, on both the London Overground Services and the West Midlands Franchise into London. This station, like others in the area will be in Zone A.[1]

The station will be overhauled and upgraded by 2009. A new multi storey car will be built, a new access road to the station will be built from the A412 to platform 10, where there will be access to the station. The entrance, access roads and bus station by the station will be altered.

A scheme to divert the Metropolitan Line's Watford branch to Watford Junction via the disused Croxley Green branch might also see the first appearance in passenger service of Underground trains formed of LU surface stock. TfL have committed £18m towards the scheme's costs, but the agreement of the Department for Transport to provide the remaining funds is still awaited. A completion date for this is around 2010.

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Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 51.661854° -0.393748°
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- Aerial image from TerraServer

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station

London Euston		First ScotRail Lowland Caledonian Sleeper	Carlisle
London Euston		Virgin Trains West Coast Main Line Intercity service	Milton Keynes Central
Bushey		Silverlink County West Coast Main Line London-Northampton commuter service	Kings Langley
Harrow & Wealdstone		Southern to Brighton or Gatwick Airport	Terminus
Watford High Street		Silverlink Metro Watford DC Line Local commuter service	Terminus
Watford North		Silverlink Metro St Albans Branch Line	Terminus
Disused Railways
Watford High Street		British Rail Rickmansworth Branch	Terminus
Watford High Street		Silverlink Croxley Green Branch	Terminus
	Proposed
Previous station		London Underground	Next station
Terminus		Metropolitan Line	Watford High Street toward Aldgate

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