The Watford to St Albans Branch (Oakwood Press Locomotive Papers) BRAND NEW

The 6\u00BD mile-long single track branch from Watford Junction to St Albans (Abbey) opened on 5th May 1858. The branch was, from its inception, part of the London & North Western Railway. The St Albans (Abbey) branch started life as a simple country branch and remained a particularly bucolic affair throughout its long life, and only in recent years has new housing developments en route to St Albans given rise to significant residential traffic. The Watford to St Albans line was a candidate for closure during the Beeching era, but happily, growing traffic led to an entirely new lease of life for this rural route, which in July 1988 became part of British Railways\u2019 25 kV ac overhead electric system.\nSince the first edition of The Watford to St Albans Branch was published in 1990 the story of the line has been an eventful one.\nGeraint Hughes, the passenger transport policy manager for Hertfordshire County Council from 1991 until 2005, has contributed a new chapter \u2013 \u2h