Watford Stations

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[eightf48544]

After bignosemac question on the Croxley Green branch.

I wonder whether Watford has the most railway stations of a borough? Or will have if the link is built.

Does anyone know the borugh with the most stations?

[Electric train]

After bignosemac question on the Croxley Green branch.

I wonder whether Watford has the most railway stations of a borough? Or will have if the link is built.

Does anyone know the borugh with the most stations?

Lambeth, Southwark, Westminster, Lewisham, Hamersmith & Chelsea .................

[Worcester_Passenger]

How many Underground stations are there in the London Borough of Hackney?

[Electric train]

Also the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has quite a lot of stations
Maidenhead
Furze Platt
Cookham
Windsor & Eton General
Windsor & Eton Riverside
Datchet
Sunnymeads
Weaysbury

[grahame]

After bignosemac question on the Croxley Green branch.

I wonder whether Watford has the most railway stations of a borough? Or will have if the link is built.

update on Croxley link:

http://www.londonreconnections.com/2016/one-extensions-missing-precarious-status-croxley-rail-link/

[eightf48544]

Heard rumours it's going to be dropped does this confirm it?

[grahame]

Heard rumours it's going to be dropped does this confirm it?

No - it looks like a statement of how things are at the moment with some very big questions about how it's going to be achieved.  It looks rather less definite now than it did, but then all schemes have their ups and downs.   

The closure of Croxley Green was a very late rail closure indeed - out of use from as late as 1996 and permanently closed in 2003, and most of the proposed link is along the trackbed of the old Croxley Green branch. One can't help hytpothsizing as to where we would be if that temporary out-of-use hadn't been allowed to stand, and indeed to look at this as a historical lesson for other facility reductions dating from 1990 and later.  Yes, it was probably very hard to see a future for the line 20 years ago, with just a couple of very early morning services to Watford Junction with the stock then forming commuter trains into Euston, and reverse operations in the evening. A horribly familiar way of driving traffic away (that familiarity of pattern is why I've taken an interest in this line in the past!)

[froome]

After bignosemac question on the Croxley Green branch.

I wonder whether Watford has the most railway stations of a borough? Or will have if the link is built.

Does anyone know the borugh with the most stations?

In response to this (nearly 5 years late! )

I was brought up in Beckenham in Kent, at the time that it was a separate borough, and at that time it claimed to have more stations than any other borough (it was one of our main claims to fame  ). It also had several other stations within a very short distance from it. It was absorbed into the London Borough of Bromley in the 60s but that must also now have a claim to most stations.

By my reckoning, within the borough there are:

4 stations in the Penge area - Penge East & West, Anerley and Crystal Palace.
12 in Beckenham and its borders - Beckenham Junction, Kent House, New Beckenham, Birkbeck, Clock House, Elmers End, Eden Park, West Wickham, Hayes, Beckenham Hill, Ravensbourne and Shortlands (the last two are right on the border of Beckenham & Bromley)
4 others in Bromley - Bromley North & South, Sundridge Park and Bickley
2 in Chislehurst - Chislehurst and Elmstead Woods
4 in Orpington - Orpington, Chelsfield, Petts Wood and St Mary Cray

The Sydenham stations just over the border served many Beccehamian residents as well.

I've not been that way for a few years so this list may well have changed. There is, of course, now the tramway route into Beckenham as well.