Kings Langley railway station

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Kings Langley National Rail
Kings Langley
Location
Place Kings Langley
Local authority Three Rivers
Operations
Station code KGL
Managed by London Midland
Number of platforms 4
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *   0.383 million
2005/06 * increase 0.446 million
2006/07 * increase 0.509 million
2007/08 * increase 0.596 million
2008/09 * decrease 0.592 million
History
Opened 1839 (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 Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

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 34 km (21 mi) north west of London Euston on the West Coast Main Line. Services to Kings Langley are operated by and the station is managed 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]

[edit] 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 direction. A rare service to and from Birmingham New Street stops here.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Apsley   London Midland
West Coast Main Line
  Watford Junction

[edit] References

  1. ^ Slater, J.N., ed. (July 1974). "Notes and News: Stations renamed by LMR". Railway Magazine (London: IPC Transport Press Ltd) 120 (879): 363. ISSN 0033-8923. 

[edit] External links

Blackpool - London express in 1953

Coordinates: 51°42′22″N 0°26′17″W / 51.706°N 0.438°W / 51.706; -0.438


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