Hatfield railway station
Hatfield Great Northern | |
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Station code | HAT |
DfT category | C2 |
Number of platforms | 3 (facing 4 tracks) |
Accessible | Yes |
National Rail annual entry and exit | |
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Railway companies | |
Original company | Great Northern Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway |
Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
Key dates | |
7 August 1850 | Station opened |
September 2013 | Station redevelopment began |
17 November 2014 | Multi-storey Car Park opened |
Other information | |
External links | |
Coordinates | 51°45′50″N 0°12′58″W / 51.764°N 0.216°W |
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Hatfield railway station serves the town of
History
Hatfield was formerly the junction of a branch to St Albans. The Hatfield and St Albans Railway closed to passenger traffic in 1951 as part of postwar economies brought in by the British Transport Commission.[3] The route of the line is now a public footpath, the Alban Way.
Station masters
- Mr. Unwin ca. 1850 (acting)
- Edmund Cooter 1856 - 1866[4] (formerly station master at Hornsey)
- Mr. Bellamy ???? - 1878
- Robert Vodden 1878 - 1906[5]
- Thomas Christopher 1910 - 1915[6] (afterwards station master at Doncaster)
- John Thomas Cross 1917 - 1923
- Frederick B. Martin 1932 - 1939
- Arthur W. Bellamy 1940 - 1949
- T.J. Piggott 1951[7] - ???? (formerly station master at Sandy)
- A.G. Dixon ca. 1960
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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 lines 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 male/female toilets and a separate disabled toilet. Ticket barriers are in operation.
Services
Off-peak, all services at Hatfield are operated by Great Northern using Class 387 and 717 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[8]
- 2 tph to London King's Cross (semi-fast)
- 2 tph to Moorgate (all stations)
- 2 tph to Welwyn Garden City
- 2 tph to Letchworth Garden City of which 1 continues to Cambridge
Additional services, including a number of Thameslink operated services to and from Sevenoaks via Catford call at the station during the peak hours.
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Following station | ||
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Great Northern Route Stopping Services | ||||
Great Northern Route Semi-Fast Services | ||||
Thameslink Peak Hours Only | ||||
Disused railways | ||||
Line and station closed | London and North Eastern Railway | Terminus |
Redevelopment
Hatfield Station was redeveloped in 2013—15 to include a new bus interchange and taxi rank,
Work on the project, which was to cost £9 million,[10] began in 2013 and was completed by the end of 2015.
The new multi-storey car park opened on 17 November 2014.[11]
Accidents
Three fatal rail crashes have occurred near Hatfield:
- December 1870 accident, when a disintegrated wheel resulted in the deaths of six passengers and two bystanders.
- Two accidents occurred on 26 January 1939. In the first, an empty fish train was involved in a rear-end collision with a passenger train. The second involved a passenger train which ran into the rear of another. Two people were killed and seven were injured.[12]
- October 2000 accident, when a GNER InterCity 225 train de-railed, killing four people and injuring 70.
Gallery
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Hatfield railway station viewed from the public footbridge.
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A Grand Central train speeds through Hatfield en route fromSunderland.
References
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- ^ Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
- ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
- ^ Cockman, F.G. (1983). The Railways of Hertfordshire. Stevenage, UK: Hertfordshire Publications. p. 24.
- ^ "Hatfield". Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal and General Advertiser. England. 27 November 1866. Retrieved 7 March 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Hertfordshire". Luton Times and Advertiser. England. 3 August 1906. Retrieved 7 March 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Mr Thomas Christopher". Hull Daily Mail. England. 21 April 1915. Retrieved 7 March 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Promotion". Biggleswade Chronicle. England. 14 September 1951. Retrieved 7 March 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Table 24, 25 National Rail timetable, December 2023
- ^ "Better stations - Hatfield". First Capital Connect. Archived from the original on 1 April 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ Logan, Ross (10 October 2012). "£9m Hatfield rail station refurbishment approved". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "New multi-storey car park opens". Great Northern.
- ISBN 0-906899-01-X.