Chorleywood station

Chorleywood is a north-west of London in Travelcard Zone 7 station It is located on Station Approach in the village of Chorleywood, in the district of Three Rivers the county of Hertfordshire. Chorleywood is one of 14 stations of the London Underground, which are outside of Greater London. 0.91 million subway passengers used the station in 2011, were added 0.403 million passengers by rail.

Operation

The station has two through tracks with one side platform. There are metro and suburban trains of the Metropolitan Line of the railway company Chiltern Railways. Almost all trains of the Metropolitan line, go through Chorleywood are regarded as high-speed trains, as they pass on the way to Baker Street in downtown several stations without stopping ( except in the off-peak hours ).

The double track section from the branching Croxleyhall Junction east of Rickmansworth to Amersham has a particular operating situation: All trains, both the electric subway and diesel multiple units and freight trains of the railway, drive on the same tracks.

History

The Metropolitan Railway ( predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line ) opened the station on July 8, 1889 under the name Chorley Wood. The name of the station was changed three times: On November 1, 1915 in Chorley Wood & Chenies, in 1934 back to the original name Chorley Wood and in 1964 finally in Chorleywood. The Underground routes northwest of Rickmansworth were electrified as the last of the entire network, on September 12, 1960. The last steam-powered train wrong on September 10, 1961.

When the station was opened, he was initially removed several hundred meters from the nearest settlement. 1894 bought by the investor James Beckley, the area around the station and parceled it. Within a few years a late Victorian settlement with more than 150 buildings whose architectural style is mainly influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement was born. The poet and journalist John Betjeman described the Bahnhofsiedlung of Chorleywood in 1973 incurred BBC documentary series as "the actual Metro - land" (the essential Metro -land ), so as a prime example of the deliberate creation of suburbs with superior quality of life along stretches of Metropolitan Railway. Since 1990, the station and the surrounding settlement are as Chorleywood station estate conservation area listed building.