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Tring Station, TRING, HP23 5QR

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.

Opened in 1837 by the London & Birmingham Railway. View south east towards Berkhamsted and London.

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

The horizontal trail of lights marks the platform of Tring Station, as seen at dusk on the road to Aldbury.

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. The section of the WCML at Tring (shown here) lies on the route of the former "London and Birmingham Railway" at the point just before it crosses the ridge of the Chiltern Hills through a notable engineering work, the "Tring Cutting", which commences some half a mile North of this point. Engineered by Robert Stephenson (son of George Stephenson), the line was fully opened on 17 September 1838. In 1846 it became a constituent of the "London and North Western Railway", and in 1923 of the "London, Midland and Scottish Railway". British railways were nationalised in 1948; today the position regarding ownership of the track and provision of services is somewhat fluid. The WCML was electrified in stages between 1959 and 1974 using the 25 kV, 50 Hz AC system. See also: Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image; Image

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

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

The Fast trains go through between platforms 1 and 2, but this is a slower train, not stopping at Tring, passing platform 3. A wide strip at the edge of each platform is marked with a yellow line which passengers are expected to wait behind - because of the size of the draft created when a non-stop train passes through the station.

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