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section between Luton and Welwyn
Junction opened for passenger and goods traffic on 1 September 1860, and was worked by the Great Northern Railway. The Welwyn Junction station was closed on the same day, and trains continued to Hatfield station instead. A Sunday passenger train service was operated, but from 1 June 1866 it did not run throughout to Dunstable LNWR, but terminated at Dunstable Church Street. As there was no run-round facility there, the arriving engine was run round its train by gravitating the coaches while the engine was in a siding. The LNWR ceased running a service between Dunstable and Luton between 1866 and 1881.
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The two lines could be joined at Welwyn by crossing the Great
Northern Railway by a bridge linking them,saving money, instead of connecting into the GNR line. This was opposed by the GNR, who saw that they might lose control of the local lines, and even that the LNWR would get access from Leighton over the line into GNR and ECR territory. The GNR made it clear they would demand onerous conditions for the construction of the bridge, and some shareholders opposed the merger for that reason; however the opposition was voted down and the motion to merge the companies was carried, on 26 January 1858. In fact the bridge was never built.
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North. Welwyn Garden City was not inaugurated as a community until 1920. The triangular junction was to be located at the south end of the viaduct; the intention of the promoters of the
Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway was to provide for direct southward running to London from Hertford at the junction, but also direct northward running to the Welwyn station, which would become the junction station for passengers to the branch. There were to be running powers for goods trains as far as Ware.
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roundabout connection, but a London to
Manchester main line railway via Luton. This was an ambitious scheme that would be in competition with the LNWR and to some extent the Great Northern Railway for long distance traffic and for mineral business, and would certainly not be assisted by them. The resolution does not seem to have led to anything.
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goods opening being delayed until 5 April 1858. The passenger service started on 3 May 1858. There were five trains each way daily except
Sundays, and they were worked by the LNWR as the line was only connected to their line. (The LNWR retained running powers Dunstable to Luton after the line was connected at the Welwyn end.)
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10.55 am and after calling at
Finsbury Park ran non-stop to the 'Halt' arriving at 11.30 am. The Express returned at 5.33 pm and after the Finsbury Park stop arrived at Kings Cross at 6.5 pm. Nameboards erected on the station were lettered Welwyn Garden City with no reference to its status as a Halt.
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Bradshaw. There were seven trains each weekday on the LNWR Dunstable branch; there were ten throughout between Dunstable and Hatfield, as well as seven (8 on Saturdays) between Luton and Dunstable. Three journeys were made each way on the Hertford branch.
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At the Welwyn end of the line, progress was not so good. In fact the
Company ran out of time, and the time limit imposed on the earlier Act had to be extended, by Act of 21 July 1859. A demonstration run for the Directors ran on 12 June 1860, and a shareholders' special train ran on 17 July 1860. The
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There is a confusing passage on
Woodward, page 7: The Act of 22 July 1847 "authorised the building of a branch line from St Albans to the Hertford station of the Hertford – Ware branch... with connections to the Great Northern in the Hatfield District. However progress was very slow—purchase of land
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The LNER (as successor to the GNR) persevered in providing a good train service of eight or nine trains daily on the
Hatfield to Hertford line right up until 1939, in the hope that residential development seen elsewhere would be repeated here. Passenger trains were however withdrawn on 18 June 1951;
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Bradshaw for 1910 shows the passenger service had increased considerably; there were seven trains each weekday on the Leighton to Dunstable section; the station at Stanbridgeford was open, but marked "sig" (for calls by request) for most trains; there were ten trains throughout between Dunstable and
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it to raise the capital, it was a more difficult matter to actually get subscriptions. This delayed land acquisition seriously, and the directors approached the LNWR, hoping to lease the line to the larger company; the LNWR were not interested. The next proposal was to merge the two local companies.
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on 7 August 1850. During the construction process the GNR directors saw that it was important to secure areas of territory for their own railway by building branches within the area. If a company had a useful branch line in an area, Parliament would be reluctant to authorise a rival line in the same
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In 1917 halt platforms were erected on both the Dunstable and Hertford branches, immediately north of Hunter's Bridge. These were for the sole use of railway employees, as there was no public Welwyn station there. On 16 August 1920 the platform on the Dunstable branch, developed by the provision of
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The Amalgamation Bill obtained the Royal Assent on 28 June 1858, with combined capital of £185,000; it was to be called the Hertford, Luton and Dunstable Railway company. Six months notice was given to the ECR to terminate the working agreement on the Hertford line. The Hertford line was already in
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In the following Parliamentary session, a branch line to serve Luton was authorised: the Luton, Dunstable and Welwyn Junction Railway was authorised on 16 July 1855. The authorised capital of the LD&WJR was £108,000. It would be a single line railway, with earthworks and bridges constructed for
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A connection was made at Luton between the Dunstable line and the Midland main line; it was commissioned on 1 January 1966, and the line between Luton and Blackbridge sidings, near Welwyn, was closed completely. On the same date the section between Dunstable North and Grovebury Sidings was closed,
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Goods train operation did not need the approval, and it had been planned to open the line to goods trains on 8 March 1858; however last-minute difficulties over a dispute with the L&NWR over the use of Dunstable station, and the discovery of a bridge that was inadequate in strength, led to the
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In fact when the line was constructed, these intentions were altered. A new Welwyn Junction station was opened, a little north of the present-day Welwyn Garden City station, immediately on the north side of Hunter's Bridge, which nowadays carries Bridge Road over the railway. This was considered a
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The valley of the River Mimram runs west to east at Digswell, and the Digswell Viaduct carries the East Coast Main Line of the Great Northern Railway over it. Welwyn was a small community at that time, and there was a Welwyn station at the north end of the viaduct; this station is now named Welwyn
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Welwyn Junction station was opened in 1858 to serve as an interchange enabling passengers using the Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway trains to join main line trains. It had two platforms and was situated to the north of the present Welwyn Garden City station. It was closed on 1 September 1860
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It was operated jointly by the GNR and the Eastern Counties Railway, and there were some through bookings between their respective stations. The line also provided a useful route to the London docks for goods traffic to and from the GNR; there were sidings at Welwyn Junction where the traffic was
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A shorter line simply reaching Dunstable from Leighton seemed to be less difficult, and as the scheme had the support of the London and Birmingham Railway, proposals were submitted to Parliament. The result that the Dunstable Railway Act was given the Royal Assent on 30 June 1845, with capital of
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By August 1926, immediately prior to the opening of the present station, the 'Halt' was served by seventeen down and sixteen up trains per weekday, which indicates the growth of Welwyn Garden City. At this time a train referred to in the timetable as the 'Garden City Express' left Kings Cross at
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visited for the inspection prior to passenger operation. He refused the approval, as there was no turntable at Leighton; there was a policy of forbidding tender engines from running tender first in main traffic. Yolland visited again a month later and this time, the Company undertook not to use
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Photographs of the wooden platform on the Hertford branch suggest it never carried a name board and, unlike Attimore Halt on the same branch, it was never shown in the public timetables as a stop for passenger services. It therefore seems safe to assume that it was indeed solely for the use of
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As the money market stabilised, it became possible to propose new lines. The Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway got its Act on 3 July 1854; it was to build from the Eastern Counties Railway terminus at Hertford (converting it to a through station). via a Cowbridge station near the centre of
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Luton was said at the time to be the largest town in England not connected to a railway or a canal. Local interests complained that they did not have a good transport system for their products, A meeting in Luton in 1845 resolved that the solution for their town was not a branch line giving a
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The Dunstable line was opened for traffic on 1 June 1848. There was one intermediate station, at Stanbridgeford, although it was not ready for opening until the year after the line started operation. It was worked from the outset by the London and North Western Railway, and the new line was
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The situation at Dunstable was obviously unsatisfactory with GNR trains reversing into the LNWR station, and a new Dunstable North station was opened in January 1866. The GNR's Church Street station was inconvenient and inadequate, and it was rebuilt after a fire in 1871.
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when the Welwyn Junction to Luton section of the Dunstable branch opened. Hatfield was then made the interchange station for both branch lines. Trains from Hertford and Dunstable joined the double-track main line at Welwyn Junction and ran on the main line to Hatfield.
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Hatfield with seven (8 on Saturdays) in addition between Luton and Dunstable. On Sundays there were two trains throughout and two more between Luton and Dunstable (Church Street). Hatfield to Hertford had secured 13 trains daily, 14 on Saturdays and two on Sundays.
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timber-built station buildings, was opened to passengers with access from Hunter's Bridge, and thus became the predecessor to the present station at Welwyn Garden City. In November 1920 a footnote reference to a train in the timetable says "Calls at a
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If the London and Birmingham Railway and its successor the LNWR were the great trunk railway to the north on the west side of the country, another was in the process of building on the east side: the Great Northern Railway was to connect London and
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Wrottesley says at this point, "The GN later abandoned the short curves proposed at Welwyn." This refers to the northward spurs for both the Hertford and Luton lines, which had never been built; the "abandonment" is of the intention to make them.
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was still being negotiated in 1853—but eventually it was built and opened on the 21st October 1865." This may refer to the (different) Hatfield to St Albans line, but according to Leleux (page 32), that line opened on 16 October 1865.
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In 1868 the branches ran through on independent tracks from Welwyn Junction to Hatfield, so that there was a single line for the Luton line on the west side of the main line, and a single line for the Hertford line on the east side.
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later conversion to double track; it would run from a junction with the LNWR at Dunstable to the GNR at Welwyn, where there would also be a triangular junction. There would be a connecting line at Digswell with the Hertford line.
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There was no passenger service intended between the Hatfield line and the ECR line, so the new line simply needed to run to the goods yard. The ECR station was relocated 300 yards west in 1888, to form what is now Hertford East
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Writing in 1908, Goodman described the track layout from Hatfield to Welwyn Junction; the heavy and slow mineral traffic on the main line had caused the GNR to widen the line; there were six tracks: from east to west they were:
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on the GNR. There was to be a triangular junction there, and the new company would have running powers into Welwyn station (now Welwyn North, and located at the north end of the viaduct). Authorised capital was £65,000.
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railway employees. It was presumably dismantled at the same time as the Luton line platform. The opening of the present station to passengers on 20 September 1926 was followed by the formal opening by the Rt Hon
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Accordingly the Great Northern Railway promoted a line that became known as the Hertford, Hatfield and St Albans Railway; it was not independent, but was promoted directly by the GNR. It was authorised by the
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Dunstable; LNWR station; opened 1 June 1848; relocated to form through station January 1866; renamed Dunstable North 25 September 1950; closed 26 April 1965; goods service continued until 9 October 1967;
294:, and when the line from Luton opened, trains used it by reversing between the station and the junction west of that point. A separate station at Dunstable, named Church Street, was opened in June 1858.
170:, and suddenly money for railway schemes was to become unobtainable, and nothing more was heard of this authorised railway. The St Albans line was built later under a fresh authorisation.
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The Hertford, Luton and Dunstable Railway was acquired by the Great Northern Railway by Act of 12 June 1861. The LNWR running powers from Dunstable to Luton were sustained in the Act.
53:, and the early industry took considerable benefit from it, and later industry was encouraged by it. Even when the competing direct line from Luton to London was opened, the route via
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the Government decided to compel the main line railways of Great Britain to join one or other of four new large companies, in a process known as the "grouping" of 1923, following the
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The Great Northern Railway ran a commercially competitive service to London from Luton via Hatfield, notwithstanding the longer route and branch line alignment for part of the way.
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For some years, there was talk of reopening the part of the line between Luton and Dunstable, but funding never became available. A more attractive opportunity proved to be a
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was Chairman of this company and of the Hertford and Welwyn Junction company, and the clear intention was that the two companies would work collaboratively
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Dunstable Church Street; opened 3 May 1858; renamed Dunstable Town 1 January 1927; closed 26 April 1965; goods service continued until 7 December 1964;
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leaving only the stub at Welwyn to Blackbridge Dump, Luton to Dunstable Cement Sidings and Grovebury Sidings to Leighton Buzzard operational.
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effectively the Dunstable branch of the LNWR and was purchased by that company on the opening of the line for the sum of £2,952
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at Welwyn Garden City between Hatfield and Ayot'. There were then five down trains and three in the up direction each weekday.
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operation, having opened to goods traffic on 28 February 1858 (a Sunday) and a passenger service on Monday 1 March 1858.
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An extensive explanation of the railways dealing with the straw hat trade at Luton: F Goodman, Traffic Dept, G.N.R.,
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on 5 October 1926. The new station included separate platform faces for Hertford and Dunstable branch trains.
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and also from Hatfield to Hertford. Authorised capital was £300,000. The year 1847 marked the end of the
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preferable interchange for the branch, and the proposed north curve of the triangle was never built.
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tender engines and Yolland passed the line as fit for passenger operation.
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How the Railways Deal with Special Classes of Traffic: 1. Luton Straw Hats
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Great Northern Railway (Hertford, Hatfield and St. Albans Branch) Act 1847
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Welwyn's Railways: A History of the Great Northern Line from 1850 to 1986
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Railway Passenger Stations in England, Scotland and Wales: A Chronology
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was installed on the trackbed between Luton and Dunstable in 2013.
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Bradshaw’s Rail Times for Great Britain and Ireland: December 1895
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The Reverend Tom W Gladwin, Peter W Neville, and Douglas E White,
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Woodward says £120,000, page 8, as does Wrottesley, page 126
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An Historical Geography of the Railways of the British Isles
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An Historical Geography of the Railways of the British Isles
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Attimore Hall Halt; opened May 1905; closed after June 1905;
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Hertingfordbury; opened December 1858; closed 18 June 1951;
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The Hertford, Luton and Dunstable Railway on full opening
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Chaul End Halt; in use by munitions workers 1914 – 1919;
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The Luton, Dunstable and Welwyn Junction Railway Act
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The Hatfield Branches of the Great Northern Railway
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Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain
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Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain
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1174:, in the Railway Magazine, November 1908, page 393
859:James Dyer, Frank Edward Stygall and John G Dony,
577:; new main line station; opened 20 September 1926;
887:, Matador Publishers, Kibworth Beauchamp, 2017,
774:, Matador Publishers, Kibworth Beauchamp, 2017,
657:was not ready for passenger traffic until 1868.
232:Luton GNR station with a special train in 1964
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72:Origins: Dunstable, but not Luton at first
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111:Luton interests press for a railway
326:Hertford Cowbridge railway station
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182:, which was being worked by the
57:held its own for some time. The
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22:was a railway affiliated to the
1272:Rail transport in Hertfordshire
1026:, Policy Press, Bristol, 2015,
1024:The Short Guide to Urban Policy
359:Railmotors on the Hertford line
261:Dunstable Church Street station
224:A Luton line authorised at last
1267:Rail transport in Bedfordshire
1022:Claire Edwards and Rob Imrie,
863:, White Crescent Press, 1977,
497:Luton and Dunstable after 1948
425:Wheathampstead railway station
136:Luton Hoo station in the 1980s
30:(opened 1858) merged with the
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1192:Gladwin et al, pages 16 to 20
524:opened on 25 September 2013.
305:Welwyn stations and junctions
86:London and Birmingham Railway
804:Bedfordshire's Lost Railways
180:Northern and Eastern Railway
338:Dunstable station relocated
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128:The Great Northern Railway
1204:Gordon, pages 122 and 123
522:Luton to Dunstable busway
26:. It was formed when the
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184:Eastern Counties Railway
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371:Hatfield track widening
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861:The Story of Luton
838:G and S Woodward,
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471:Transport Act 1947
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403:Luton Branch Line.
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1098:Woodward, page 10
1032:978 1 4473 0800 3
1001:John Wrottesley,
904:Ernest F Carter,
718:Ernest F Carter,
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611:1911; still open.
460:Railways Act 1921
160:10 & 11 Vict.
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