Watford Vicarage Road tube station

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Looking northeast towards the hospital
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Watford Vicarage Road
Location of Watford Vicarage Road in Hertfordshire
Location Watford
Local authority Watford
Managed by London Underground
Number of platforms2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2017Not opened [1]
2018Not opened [2]
2019Not opened [3]
2020Not opened [4]
2021Not opened [5]
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WGS84 51°38′48″N0°24′33″W / 51.646626°N 0.409284°W / 51.646626; -0.409284 Coordinates: 51°38′48″N0°24′33″W / 51.646626°N 0.409284°W / 51.646626; -0.409284
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Watford Vicarage Road is a proposed London Underground station in Watford, Hertfordshire. The station is proposed to be part of the approved, but currently suspended due to funding, Croxley Rail Link project, a scheme to extend the Metropolitan line to Watford Junction railway station, served by Metropolitan line trains between Watford Junction and Central London via Baker Street. Originally the station was to be named either Watford Hospital or Watford General Hospital. [6] On 25 January 2017, the Watford Observer newspaper published an update on the Croxley Rail Link confirming work had stopped as there was an ongoing funding issue. [7]

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Watford Vicarage Road was to have been a newly constructed station on a re-opened section of the former LNWR Watford and Rickmansworth Railway line which was closed by British Rail in 1996. [8] The station was to have been located to the west of Vicarage Road, adjacent to Holywell allotments, with the platforms in the railway cutting below the road. The single-storey glass and metal-clad station building was to be at street level, with staircases and lifts providing platform access. [9] Designs for the new station, and others on the link, were prepared by Acanthus LW Architects. [10] [11]

The new station was to have been between the sites of two former railway stations on the old LNWR line; to the west of the former Watford Stadium Halt and to the east of the former Watford West railway station on Tolpits Lane. [6] [12] [13] [14] [15] It was not planned to re-open these disused stations and the platforms at both former stations would have been removed or modified to accommodate the two new tracks. [16]

Name

The name originally proposed for the station was Watford Hospital, to reflect its proximity to Watford General Hospital. Local campaigners petitioned Transport for London (TfL) to name the station after Vicarage Road Stadium, home of Watford F.C., as they felt that it was a more easily recognised local landmark. TfL stated that their policy is not to name new stations after individual roads in order to ensure geographical understanding across the whole Tube network. However, in recognition of local opinion and the wider recognition of the Vicarage Road name in association with the football club, they agreed to waive this rule. On 8 August 2013 TfL announced that they would name the station Watford Vicarage Road. [17] [18]

Vicarage Road and the Croxley Rail Link
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The former LNWR stations (closed 1996) and the proposed stations (not opened in 2018)
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Map of the whole Croxley Rail Link project

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  7. ↑ "UPDATE: Met Line extension: Mayor confirms work has stopped". Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
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  10. ↑ "Croxley Rail Link Watford for Mouchel/Hertfordshire County Completion 2003" . Retrieved 20 March 2012.[ dead link ]
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