St Albans City railway station

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St Albans
Location
Place	St Albans
Local authority	City and District of St Albans
Operations
Managed by	First Capital Connect
Platforms in use	4
Annual entry/exit 04/05	5.340 million **
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St Albans railway station is one of two railway stations in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. It is located about half a mile east of the city centre. It is the more important of the two, situated on the Midland Main Line and served by First Capital Connect on the Thameslink service.

It was built by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St. Pancras. Formerly, St. Albans was famous for producing Watercress which was sent in 56 pound lots to London and Manchester.

The station is also often referred to as St Albans City. This is so not to confuse it with the city's other station, St Albans Abbey, which was built by the London and North Western Railway in 1858. There was a further station - London Road - built by the Hatfield and St. Albans Railway in 1863 to connect with the Great Northern Railway.

1 Description
2 Services
3 See also
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[edit] Description

The station has four platforms, two for each direction: one "fast" and one "slow". The main entrance, ticket office, multistorey car park, taxi rank and bus connections are on Station Way, east of the station. There is a second exit to the west, to a small surface car park off Ridgmont Road and Victoria Street. Somewhat controversially, a larger surface car park to the east of the railway lines gained planning permission for a large residential development in 2003.

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak service sees eight trains per hour in each direction. There are four fast trains per hour between Bedford and Brighton, via Luton to the north, and Kings Cross Thameslink (in London) and Gatwick Airport to the south. There are also four trains per hour to Sutton and Wimbledon via Central London, two of which start from Luton.