Croxley tube station
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Croxley Station is a London Underground
London Underground
The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...

 station at Croxley Green
Croxley Green
Croxley Green is a small town and civil parish of approximately 5,000 dwellings and 12,000 residents located between Watford and Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England...

 in the Three Rivers
Three Rivers (district)
Three Rivers is a local government district in Hertfordshire in the East of England. Its council is based in Rickmansworth.It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Rickmansworth Urban District and Chorleywood Urban District with part of Watford Rural District...

 district of Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
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. It is on the Watford branch of the Metropolitan Line
Metropolitan Line
The Metropolitan line is part of the London Underground. It is coloured in Transport for London's Corporate Magenta on the Tube map and in other branding. It was the first underground railway in the world, opening as the Metropolitan Railway on 10 January 1863...

. It was renamed 'Croxley' in 1949 so as differentiate itself from the now closed .

The only intermediate station on the branch, Croxley lies between , (the terminus) and on the main line from to . It is in Travelcard Zone 7. The southbound platform at Croxley is unusual in that it has no station starter signal.

The station is situated on the corner of Watford Road and Winton Drive in Croxley Green
Croxley Green
Croxley Green is a small town and civil parish of approximately 5,000 dwellings and 12,000 residents located between Watford and Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England...

.

History

  • 2 November 1925: station opened as "Croxley Green" on the Metropolitan Railway
    Metropolitan railway
    Metropolitan Railway can refer to:* Metropolitan line, part of the London Underground* Metropolitan Railway, the first underground railway to be built in London...

    's extension to opened from both and ;
  • 23 May 1949: station re-named "Croxley"
  • 3 January 1960: line closed between Croxley and Rickmansworth
  • 11 May 1987: early morning services from Rickmansworth reinstated

Link to Watford Junction

The Croxley Rail Link
Croxley Rail Link
The Croxley Rail Link is a railway engineering proposal to re-route part of a London Underground line in Hertfordshire, outside London, UK. The project would divert Metropolitan line Watford branch services after station away from station to via intermediate stations using a reopened section of...

 is a proposal to divert the Watford Branch east of Croxley to station. In 2005, plans were approved to link the line through Croxley which terminates at , via a deviation to the much more important station at Watford Junction. Intermediate stations would be built or rebuilt at (near the old ), and .

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