On Mar 25, 10:41*pm, (Neil Williams)
wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:30:43 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

Plus realign the track from the St Albans Abbey line back into
platform 10 at Watford Junction and save plenty of money on having to
re-signal from the main line into the existing platform 11, and while
they are at it, they can put the track back in next to platform 10!

Why was it moved?


So they could extend the car park across the trackbed, if you look at
Google Maps satellite view, you can see the route of the original
alignment, which went down the back of the Homebase carpark (the curve
of the wall was the original alignment). You can clearly see the
station car park has two parts, the original bit between Platforms 9
and 10 and the extension between 10 and the newer platform 11, with a
short connection between them around the end of platform 10.

Part of the council's road plans would involve fiddling with the car-
park access, which might make reinstating the original alignment
easier, although this isn't mentioned in the plans (large pdf: http://
www.watford.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/download/asset/?asset_id=14946050