Hatfield railway station

Hatfield National Rail

The entrance at Hatfield station
Location
Place Hatfield
Local authority Borough of Welwyn Hatfield
Grid reference TL232087
Operations
Station code HAT
Managed by Great Northern
Number of platforms 3
DfT category C2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03   1.130 million
2004/05 Increase 1.407 million
2005/06 Increase 1.430 million
2006/07 Increase 1.642 million
2007/08 Increase 1.768 million
2008/09 Increase 1.905 million
2009/10 Decrease 1.837 million
2010/11 Increase 1.928 million
2011/12 Increase 2.094 million
2012/13 Increase 2.095 million
2013/14 Decrease 2.085 million
2014/15 Increase 2.134 million
History
Original company Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
7 August 1850 (1850-08-07) Station opened
September 2013 (2013-09) Station redevelopment began
17 November 2014 (2014-11-17) Multi-storey Car Park opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hatfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Hatfield railway station serves the town of Hatfield in Hertfordshire, England. The station is managed by Great Northern. It is located approximately 18 miles (29 km) north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line.

History

Hatfield was the junction for a now-closed branch line to Dunstable Town. It was also the junction of a second railway that ran to St Albans Abbey. The former was closed in 1965 under the Beeching Axe, and the latter succumbed some 14 years earlier (in 1951) as part of postwar economies brought in by the British Transport Commission. The route of the St Albans Abbey line is now a public footpath, the Alban Way, while the closure of the Dunstable Town line has left Dunstable as one of the largest towns in England without a direct rail connection.

Facilities

Hatfield has waiting rooms on all platforms, with extra shelters provided at various points along the platforms, as well as a canopy on Platform 1. There is a small café-shop style business, "Chuggs" on Platform 1, and three new retail units which opened in the new station building. There are three platform faces in total - platform 1 is a side platform facing the Up Slow line & used by London-bound trains (there is no platform on the Up Fast line), whilst platforms 2 & 3 face the Down Fast and Down Slow lies respectively; the latter is used by the majority of northbound trains.

The station has a "Fast-Ticket" machine, as well as a standard touchscreen machine on either side of the building. Hatfield also has many vending machines throughout the station and a photo booth inside the booking hall, which also contains toilets for both genders and a separate disabled toilet. Ticket barriers are in operation.

Services

During the daytime there is generally a half-hourly fast service to London Kings Cross southbound and also every 20 minutes a stopping service to Moorgate Monday to Fridays and half-hourly on weekends.

Northbound there is an hourly service to both Cambridge and Peterborough, leaving at an alternate half hourly frequency. There is also a stopping service to Welwyn Garden City on the same pattern as that to Moorgate (every 20 minutes weekdays, half-hourly evenings & weekends).[1]

The station is also served by various buses operated by Arriva, Centrebus and Uno (bus company).

Redevelopment

Hatfield Station was recently redeveloped to include a new bus interchange and taxi rank, multi-storey car park, refurbished ticket office, three new retail units and step-free access to all platforms.[2]

Work on the project, which is to cost £9 million,[3] began in 2013 and was completed by the end of 2015.

The new multi-storey car park opened on 17 November 2014[4]

Routes

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Potters Bar or
Finsbury Park
  Great Northern
London-Cambridge semi-fast
  Welwyn Garden City
Potters Bar   Great Northern
London-Peterborough semi-fast
 
Welham Green   Great Northern
Great Northern stopping
 
Disused railways
Line and station closed
London and North Eastern RailwayTerminus

Accidents

Three fatal rail crashes have occurred near Hatfield:

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hatfield railway station.
  1. http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/plan-your-journey/timetables/HAT/
  2. "Better stations - Hatfield". First Capital Connect. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  3. Logan, Ross (10 October 2012). "£9m Hatfield rail station refurbishment approved". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  4. "New multi-storey car park opens". Great Northern.
  5. Trevena, Arthur (1980). Trains in Trouble. Vol. 1. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 41. ISBN 0-906899-01-X.

Coordinates: 51°45′50″N 0°12′58″W / 51.764°N 0.216°W / 51.764; -0.216

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