On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:56 David H Wild wrote:

In article ,
Stephen Furley wrote:
Rickmansworth Church Street, Croxley Mills and Croxley Green depot all
saw their last train long ago. I'm pretty sure that Cardiff Road
Power Station was rail connnected, but did it ever receive oil by
rail? Were any of the other local indistries, Sun Printers for
example, rail connected?

I don't think that Sun Printers was ever rail connected,

nods Never.

but the firm did
provide the main passenger load for the branch. The decline in passenger
traffic became very marked when Sun Printers closed down.

Indeed and whilst that's true, workforces for both Scammells, next to
West Watford, and Dickinson's Croxley Mills, a short walk southwestwards
from Croxley Green were also fed by the branch; and the Industrial
Estate south of the line also generated a little passenger traffic from
both those stations.

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In article ,
paul wrote:
but the firm did
provide the main passenger load for the branch. The decline in passenger
traffic became very marked when Sun Printers closed down.

Indeed and whilst that's true, workforces for both Scammells, next to
West Watford, and Dickinson's Croxley Mills, a short walk southwestwards
from Croxley Green were also fed by the branch; and the Industrial
Estate south of the line also generated a little passenger traffic from
both those stations.

Scammells and Dickinsons have both gone from there as well. Probably no-one
else has the number of staff signing on at one time to justify any rail
service.

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"Peter Smyth" wrote in message ...
"Joe" wrote in message
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I was reading up on this [subject] line about how it unofficially closed
in
1996 and officially closed last year. How were the pax told that the
service
was going to be temporarily run by a bus, or was it for works and it just
never reopened?

I don't think there were any passengers! The line had already been reduced
to one train a day for some time before it was replaced by a bus.

Peter Smyth

Surely a using Croxley Green station is a better idea for the big
business park by it than the huge number of cars that drive to the
business park and the buses that bus people in from Watford Tube and
Watford Junction?

But Scammells is a housing estate. How do the Government expect people to
get out of there cars and onto public transport if they close it.
Kevin

Scammells and Dickinsons have both gone from there as well. Probably
no-one
else has the number of staff signing on at one time to justify any rail
service.

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In article ,
Kevin Rayner wrote:


Scammells and Dickinsons have both gone from there as well. Probably
no-one else has the number of staff signing on at one time to justify
any rail service.

But Scammells is a housing estate. How do the Government expect people to
get out of there cars and onto public transport if they close it.
Kevin

Croxley Green station is still some way from the housing estate, so I
wouldn't expect many people from there to use the train when there is a
more convenient bus. Remember that when the LM ran a half-hourly service
throughout the day (for eighteen months) nobody used it.

The connection from the Metropolitan Line would be much more likely to be
useful.

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