Croxley is a

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station located on Watford Road ( A412) in

Croxley Green Croxley Green is both a village and a suburb of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is also a civil parish. Located on the A412 between Watford to the north-east and Rickmansworth to the south-west, it is approximately north-west of ...

Rickmansworth Rickmansworth () is a town in south-west Hertfordshire, England, located approximately north-west of central London, south-west of Watford and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway. The town is mainly to the north of the Grand Union Canal ( ...

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. It is on the Watford branch of the

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between

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and Moor Park stations. It is the only intermediate station on the branch. It is in Travelcard Zone 7.

History

Croxley station opened on 2 November 1925 as "Croxley Green" on the

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's extension to with lines connecting both and . However, this led to confusion as there was another

opened by the

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in 1912, so it was renamed to "Croxley" in 1949. There had been shuttles running to and from Rickmansworth stations regularly but was withdrawn in January 1960, later reinstated in 1987 but only one in early morning and late evenings each way. The shuttles to Rickmansworth were later extended to Amersham following the introduction of the longer S8 Stock trains.

Metropolitan Line Extension

The Croxley Rail Link is a railway engineering project which would have resulted in the Watford branch services on the London Underground's Metropolitan line being diverted at Baldwins Lane from the current terminus at Watford tube station onto the alignment of the disused Watford and Rickmansworth Railway between Croxley Green railway station and Watford High Street stations before continuing to Watford Junction. The diversion would require the construction of a viaduct over the Grand Union Canal,

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and the A412. On 25 January 2017, the ''

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'' newspaper published an update on the Croxley Rail Link confirming work had stopped as there was an ongoing funding issue.

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Metropolitan line stations Tube stations in Hertfordshire Former Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1925 Croxley Rail Link Charles Walter Clark railway stations {{London-tube-stub