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?
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"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

"Peter Smyth" wrote in message
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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


Even when it had a reasonable service, almost nobody used it.

In article , Stephen Furley
writes

"Peter Smyth" wrote in message
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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


Even when it had a reasonable service, almost nobody used it.



How much did Watford FC use Watford Stadium station

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Alan Osborn wrote in message ...
In article , Stephen Furley
writes

"Peter Smyth" wrote in message
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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


Even when it had a reasonable service, almost nobody used it.



How much did Watford FC use Watford Stadium station

I don't know, but there was no intention to re-open it in the
Metropolitan Watford Link scheme, which may suggest that it wasn't
much used.

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 know, but there was no intention to re-open it in the
Metropolitan Watford Link scheme, which may suggest that it wasn't
much used.

Someone said that it was also due to the close proximity of West station
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Alan Osborn wrote:

How much did Watford FC use Watford Stadium station

Almost never. They usually arrived in their own cars or used the team coach
for away games ;-)

"Stimpy" wrote in message
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How much did Watford FC use Watford Stadium station

Almost never. They usually arrived in their own cars or used the team
coach
for away games ;-)

Did Fat Reg From Pinner ever use it?

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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, 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.

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In article , Stephen
Furley writes
Were any of the other local indistries, Sun Printers for
example, rail connected?

My late grandfather worked for Sun Printers. He never mentioned any kind
of rail link, but he did once say that they had a crane that crossed
over the track and therefore they had to be careful about using it. I
have no more detail than that.

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