Hatfield: Route of the former Hatfield & St Albans Railway
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Hatfield: Route of the former Hatfield & St Albans Railway
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 19 Apr 2011
The Hatfield & St Albans Railway opened their line through here, linking the two towns, in 1865. The railway was subsequently absorbed into the Great Northern Railway in 1883. Passenger services on the railway were an early casualty of the pre-Beeching era of British Railways, closing just 3 years into Nationalization in 1951. Freight traffic on the line lingered into the 1960s. Today the route of the railway forms the Alban Way, or the Smallford Trail, and a section of National Cycle Network Route 61.
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Image Location
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51.756712
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-0.247313