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Crews Hill Station
The Great Northern Railway planned to provide an alternative route to avoid quadrupling problematic sections of the mainline through Welwyn, whilst also providing a more direct route between Hertford and Kings Cross. Despite opening as far as Cuffley & Goffs Oak in 1910, the remainder of the line was not completed until after grouping in 1923.
Whereas the Grange Park, Enfield and Gordon Hill were provided with brick stations, the northernmost two stations were provided with identical, basic, corrugated metal booking halls. Both were located on embankments. It remains unclear why Crews Hill and Cuffley & Goffs Oak Stations were provided with such basic facilities especially in comparison with the rural Lincolnshire location of the Kirkstead and Little Steeping Railway stations at Coningsby, Tumby Woodside, New Bolingbroke, Stickney and Midville which opened in 1913 with substantial brick booking halls similar to the Enfield extension and Letchworth stations of the same period,
Crews Hill was the last of the pair to retain its booking hall building but this has now gone and the entrance canopy shortened accordingly.
Crews Hill Station
The Great Northern Railway planned to provide an alternative route to avoid quadrupling problematic sections of the mainline through Welwyn, whilst also providing a more direct route between Hertford and Kings Cross. Despite opening as far as Cuffley & Goffs Oak in 1910, the remainder of the line was not completed until after grouping in 1923.
Whereas the Grange Park, Enfield and Gordon Hill were provided with brick stations, the northernmost two stations were provided with identical, basic, corrugated metal booking halls. Both were located on embankments. It remains unclear why Crews Hill and Cuffley & Goffs Oak Stations were provided with such basic facilities especially in comparison with the rural Lincolnshire location of the Kirkstead and Little Steeping Railway stations at Coningsby, Tumby Woodside, New Bolingbroke, Stickney and Midville which opened in 1913 with substantial brick booking halls similar to the Enfield extension and Letchworth stations of the same period,
Crews Hill was the last of the pair to retain its booking hall building but this has now gone and the entrance canopy shortened accordingly.