Disused railway lines and closed stations in Hertfordshire

43 miles of disused railway
36 closed stations
47 stations open today
11 named lost lines

Hertfordshire has 43 miles of disused railway and 36 closed stations, against 47 stations still open today. That is 0.8 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Buntingford Branch, with 8.5 miles of its route inside Hertfordshire.

See Hertfordshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 43 miles of lost railway in Hertfordshire break down as 34 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 4.9 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 3.7 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Hertfordshire

11 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Hertfordshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Buntingford Branch	8.5
Dunstable Branch	8.2
Hemel Hempstead Branch	8.1
St Margarets to Buntingford Branch	4.3
Rickmansworth Branch	3.0
Aylesbury to Cheddington Branch	1.7
Croxley Green Branch	1.7
Hitchin and Bedford Line	1.4
Croxley Mills	0.4
Metropolitan Line	0.4
Nicky Line	0.4

Closed railway stations in Hertfordshire

All 36 closed and former stations in Hertfordshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Hertfordshire

47 stations in Hertfordshire still have a train service. The busiest are Watford Junction (6.9 million a year), St Albans City (6.7 million a year), Stevenage (4.7 million a year), Bishop's Stortford (3.0 million a year) and Hitchin (2.9 million a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Greater London, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Northamptonshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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