Apsley railway station

Apsley railway station is in Apsley, on the southern outskirts of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. One of two railway stations now serving the town, the other is Hemel Hempstead just up the line in Boxmoor.

Apsley
General information
Location	Apsley, Borough of Dacorum England
Grid reference	TL062048
Managed by	London Northwestern Railway
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	APS
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	26 September 1938
Passengers
2019/20	0.659 million
2020/21	0.118 million
2021/22	0.327 million
2022/23	0.406 million
2023/24	0.473 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Platform view (1991)

The station is 23 miles (37 km) north west of London Euston on the West Coast Main Line. Apsley is managed and train services are operated by London Northwestern Railway.

History

The station was designed by the architect William Henry Hamlyn and opened on 26 September 1938, to serve the paper producing area of Apsley Mill and Nash Mill. It was operated initially by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Services

All services at Apsley are operated by London Northwestern Railway.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 2 tph to London Euston
• 2 tph to Milton Keynes Central

During the peak hours, a number of additional services between London Euston, Tring and Bletchley call at the station.

A number of early morning and late evening services are extended beyond Milton Keynes Central to and from Northampton and Birmingham New Street.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hemel Hempstead		London Northwestern Railway West Coast Main Line		Kings Langley

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Train times and station information for Apsley railway station from National Rail
• Station on navigable O.S. map.