"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
Recliner wrote:

Yes, I think that would have been a very good plan, and might be a
better idea even now than an Amersham (or Aylesbury) to Watford
Junction shuttle. I don't think the Chesham commuters would lose much,
and some may even value a direct link to Watford, as would some
Amersham residents.

Of course Watford High Street and Watford Junction are a different prospect.
Finding people who want to travel to the outskirts of Watford is a different
matter. The last attempt to make the Croxley Green branch work wound up as a
farce as empty trains ran back and forth during the day.

I think Croxley Green wasn't near anywhere useful then; the area has been
developed a lot recently, and people are now less likely to want to use
cars. But it's the connection to the Met that will make the line much
busier, not the limited traffic from the new Cassiobridge station.

(Was the branch ever hooked up to other lines to provide through services
that people wanted? ISTR reading there were trains to Broad Street but was
that actually a popular commuter route or just a way to run extra trains on
the DC lines without clogging Watford Junction?)

Yes, it appears that there were a very few direct trains from Croxley Green
to Euston and Broad St over the southern part of the triangle (not planned
for reinstatement) until 1966.

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f...ve/index.shtml