The Alban Way photo gallery

Part of the Lost Rails project

You can view the pictures using the photo gallery below, or click here to launch an animated slideshow.

Photo:Abbey Station, St Albans, in 1946. The terminus had eight bays and station buildings; today the Watford Service leaves from an unmanned platform.
Photo:Abbey Station, St Albans, the eastern terminus of the line, in August 1964. The buildings were demolished in the 1970s.
Photo:Passing the LNWR's signal box at St Albans Abbey Station.
Photo:London Road Station, St Albans, and its staff soon after opening in 1865 - the museum's earliest station view. Milk was an important perishable freight.
Photo:The de Havilland workers' train arriving back at London Road Station, St Albans, in July 1950, not long before the end of passenger services.
Photo:London Road Station, St Albans, in the 1950s, looking west. Passenger services have ceased and the platform is overgrown.
Photo:London Road Station, and Staples' Printworks, St Albans, looking east from the goods yard in May 1965.
Photo:London Road Station, St Albans, in the 1950s, looking towards Hatfield beneath the London Road and Midland Railway Bridges.
Photo:London Road Station in 1994, St Albans
Photo:London Road Station, St Albans, preserved as offices, February 2010. The car stands on the old trackbed.
Photo:The track beneath London Road bridge, St Albans, looking east. The steelwork of the railway telegraph survives; March 2010.
Photo:The new Midland Railway crossing over the St Albans - Hatfield Railway at London Road Station, St Albans, shortly after opening in 1868. The branch line was only three years older.
Photo:The 60-foot arch of the 1868 Midland Railway Bridge, St Albans, looking east up the long haul to The Camp, March 2010.
Photo:Graffiti inside the Midland Railway Arch, St Albans, March 2010.
Photo:Running uphill beneath the Midland Railway Arch, St Albans, March 2010.
Photo:Brickwork of the Midland Railway Arch, St Albans, March 2010. The load-bearing arch is 30 inches thick and spans 60 feet.
Photo:Sanders' Orchid Nursery siding, near Camp Road, March 2010. A timber goods and coaling platform still standing though well over 60 years old.
Photo:Special rail car used by Sanders Orchid Nursery, St Albans, to take its blooms for sale in London.
Photo:Camp Road railway bridge, St Albans, after demolition c1965.
Photo:N7 tank engine and 25 wagons derailed at 15 mph following vandalism at Camp Road, St Albans (Sanders' Siding), 1955. No one was hurt.
Photo:The new Salvation Army Printing Works and its siding, Campfield Road, St Albans, c1900s.
Photo:Tank engine and box wagons moving goods to or from the Salvation Army Printing Works, Campfield Road, St Albans, c1900s.
Photo:The line passing between the Salvation Army Printworks and Fleetville Cemetery, St Albans, c1930s.
Photo:June 1910. Sutton Road, Fleetville, St Albans, 'dipped' beneath the railway bridge, and often flooded.
Photo:Bridge at Sutton Road, Fleetville, St Albans, after demolition, c 1965.
Photo:The 'new' bridge carrying St Albans' eastern ring road across the line. February 2010.
Photo:A private coaling line led from the railway to the boiler house at Hill End Hospital on the eastern outskirts of St Albans. c1920s
Photo:Hill End Halt, on the eastern outskirts of St Albans, formed an entrance to the mental hospital. Here, in the late 1950s, it is used as a car park and the buildings have been burnt out.
Photo:N7 tank engine without freight passing the derelict Hill End Halt, east of St Albans, November 1959.
Photo:N7 tank engine with freight at Hill End Lane level crossing, eastern outskirts of St Albans, April 1960.
Photo:Hill End Halt, east of St Albans, March 2010
Photo:Marconi's electrical engineering works, Longacres, eastern outskirts of St Albans, 1948. The factory was located across the tracks from Hill End Halt.
Photo:Railway telegraph post between Hill End Halt and Smallford, 2009; possibly the last standing post on a Hertfordshire branch line
Photo:Lesser Celandine beside the track between Hill End and Smallford, April 2010.
Photo:Tony Brookes deals with a cycling barrier on the Alban Way, January 1996.
Photo:Milepost beside the track on Cycle Route 61, commemorating the National Cycle Network, 2000.
Photo:Blackthorn bushes beside the track at Acrewood, between St Albans and Hatfield, April 2010.
Photo:Flowering cherry near Smallford Station, March 2009
Photo:Smallford Station, looking towards Hatfield, between the Wars.
Photo:A 'special' train for railway enthusiasts at Smallford Station, near Colney Heath in 1961, ten years after the withdrawal of passenger traffic. The goods yard was still in use.
Photo:Smallford Station looking east in 1967.
Photo:Smallford Station buildings among elder bushes and rubbish, February 2010.
Photo:Nast Hyde Halt, near Hatfield ½ mile SW of the Comet Hotel, 1966, long after closure. Halts were unmanned stops, added to boost passenger traffic
Photo:The bridge carrying Cavendish Way, Hatfield, over the line, February 2010.
Photo:N2 tank engine and passenger train arriving at Lemsford Road Halt outside Hatfield during the Second World War. The train served a local aircraft factory.
Photo:The derelict and overgrown platform at Lemsford Road Halt, outside Hatfield, February 2010.
Photo:The eastern terminus was an outside platform at Hatfield GNR mainline Station; between the Wars.
Photo:LMS - London, Midland and Scottish Railway - train at Abbey station.
Photo:London Road station.
Photo:Train near Hill End, c1960.
Photo:Train at Hill End sidings. c1960.
Photo:Train at Hill End sidings. c1960.
This gallery was added by N White on 03/03/2011.

Comments about this page

Great photos, many I have never seen.  The locomotive at Lemsford Road Halt is a Class N1 not N2.  The photo of the J52 at Hill End was taken on 17th June 1961(exactly 50 years ago).  The event was a Stephenson Locomotive Society Rail Tour.

By Roger Taylor
On 14/06/2011

Great photos, thanks

By Mick Bryce
On 22/03/2013

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