Kings Langley railway station
Kings Langley  |
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| Location | |
| Place | Abbots Langley |
| Local authority | District of Three Rivers |
| Grid reference | TL080019 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | KGL |
| Managed by | London Midland |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2009/10 |  0.574 million |
| 2010/11 |  0.598 million |
| 2011/12 | 0.630 million |
| 2012/13 | 0.669 million |
| 2013/14 | 0.666 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1839 |
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| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kings Langley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Kings Langley railway station is just under the M25 motorway at Junction 20. It serves the village of Kings Langley, and the nearby villages of Abbots Langley and Hunton Bridge. The station is 21 miles (34 km) north west of London Euston on the West Coast Main Line. The station and all services calling at the station are operated by London Midland.
The station was opened in 1839. From 1909 the station was known as Kings Langley & Abbots Langley, becoming Kings Langley on 6 May 1974.[1]
Services
Monday to Saturday a half-hourly service to London Euston southbound and Tring (Saturdays Milton Keynes Central) northbound. Evenings and Sundays there is an hourly in each. A number of night and rush hour services are extended to and from Birmingham New Street and Coventry. There is one train each weekday morning to and from Crewe.[2]
| Preceding station |  National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Apsley | London Midland West Coast Main Line |
Watford Junction | ||
Accidents and Incidents
- On 13 March 1935, an express meat train from Liverpool to London was brought to a halt at Kings Langley due to a defective vacuum brake. Due to a signalman's error a milk train ran into its rear. Wreckage spread across all four lines, with the result that a few minutes later the Camden to Holyhead freight collided with the debris, followed a few seconds later by the Toton to Willesden coal train. All four lines were blocked for some time and the driver of the milk train was killed.[3] Contemporaneous newsreel footage shows the aftermath of the four-fold accident.[4]
References
External links
- Train times and station information for Kings Langley railway station from National Rail
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