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Tring Station, TRING, HP23 5QP

These houses, which date from the 19th century are approached by a narrow road at the back of the station forecourt. See Image

The steps lead down to platforms 2 and 3; the train at platform 4 is a 'Tring starter' waiting to depart for Euston.

The 4L48 Tesco container train from Daventry to Tilbury pauses in Platform 5 at Tring having arrived 8 minutes early. The train is headed by Direct Rail Services (DRS) Class 66 locomotive No. 66430. Tesco is big user of rail freight to serve its countrywide distribution depots. In Platform 4 stands a passenger train from London Euston which terminates here.

Opened in 1837 by the London & Birmingham Railway, later part of the London & North Western Railway, this station is 1.5 miles from the town. View south east towards Berkhamsted and London, shortly after the new £5.8m footbridge and lifts had been installed. The booking office is at road level, off the picture to the right.

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) extends between London Euston and Glasgow Central with branches and divergences serving, among other cities, Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. Tring lies about mid-way on the section between Watford Junction and Bletchley. Tring Station (which also gives its name to the small community that has grown up in the immediate vicinity) lies some 2 miles from the Town Centre on the route of the former "London and Birmingham Railway" at the point just before it crosses the ridge of the Chiltern Hills. This it achieves through a notable engineering work that commences just North of this point, the 2.5 mile long "Tring Cutting", a tribute to the gangs of railway navvies who created it with nothing more than pick, shovel and wheelbarrow. Engineered by Robert Stephenson (son of George Stephenson), the line was fully opened on 17 September 1838. As can be seen from this picture and those below, the Station as it exists today is devoid of any features of architectural interest, and in recent years has been reduced to the status of a toilet-free bus shelter. See also: Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image See also: Image; Image

This is the view of the station beheld by Ridgeway walkers as the cross over a bridge, and head for the Chiltern Hills.

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) extends between London Euston and Glasgow Central with branches and divergences serving, among other cities, Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. Tring lies about mid-way on the section between Watford Junction and Bletchley. Tring Station (which also gives its name to the small community that has grown up in the immediate vicinity) lies some 2 miles from the Town Centre on the route of the former "London and Birmingham Railway" at the point just before it crosses the ridge of the Chiltern Hills. This it achieves through a notable engineering work that commences just North of this point, the 2.5 mile long "Tring Cutting", a tribute to the gangs of railway navvies who created it with nothing more than pick, shovel and wheelbarrow. Engineered by Robert Stephenson (son of George Stephenson), the line was fully opened on 17 September 1838. As can be seen from this picture and those below, the Station as it exists today is devoid of any features of architectural interest, and in recent years has been reduced to the status of a toilet-free bus shelter. See also: Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image See also: Image; Image

Platforms, 1972

The large building to the right is the former Royal Hotel, which was built at the time the Railway line opened in 1837. It is now converted to self-contained flats. The “box” in front of the hotel is the Ticket Office of the Railway Station. The Houses to the left were originally built for railway staff.