IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Harvey Road, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 3BN

Taken in July 1997, this photo shows the former primary school in Harvey Road WD3 3BN which opened in 1939. Shortly after this photo was taken, the wooden building was demolished with the replacement building being opened in September 1997 for children from reception class to year 6. A playing field now occupies the site of the former school with the present school being on the former playing field.

Viewed from the Harvey Road bridge, and picked up against the snow of 2 February 2009, the dead straight trackwork here ends in the left bend that leads to Croxley station. The line here runs in a cutting between Gonville Avenue to the left and Frankland Road to the right. The photograph illustrates the way in which electrical power is provided to the trains. The outer and central rails are both non-running, where the former is energised at +420 volts DC, and the latter at -210 volts DC, which combine to provide a traction voltage of 630 volts DC.

Watford Road, close to Harvey Road. Croxley Green.

Croxley Green.

This is a repeat view of Image, this time with the remnants of the snow of 2 February 2009 still lying on the trackbed and on the sheltered cutting slope to the left. On the right the snow on the cutting bank has already melted in the sunshine.

These late Victorian houses were built by the company founded by John Dickinson to house workers at his nearby paper mill next to the Grand Union Canal at Croxley Common Moor. The actual square is behind the photographer here, and this part of Dickinson Square is a through road between the Watford Road and New Road.

A southbound Metropolitan Line train for Baker Street eases around the sharp curve in the deep cutting at the Harvey Road bridge, west of Croxley station, on the Watford branch. The extension of the Metropolitan Line to Watford opened in 1925.