The station was opened in 1912 by the
London and North Western Railway as the terminus of the branch line of the
Watford-Rickmansworth line. The original wooden station building was burned in the early hours of 10 March 1913 by a group of
Suffragettes. A goods yard opened just to the east of the station shortly after, which by 1939 it was expanded and a loop constructed from the southern to the northern siding. The
London Midland Region of British Railways, and later
Network SouthEast after
sectorisation, continued to run services until the line's closure. Not far from the terminus, a
depot was built to maintain BR trains, and for stabling
1938 tube stock Bakerloo line trains which closed in 1985. Originally, there were some services direct to
Broad Street and
Euston. The station and branch line were earmarked for closure by the
first Beeching report, but the proposal was refused. Instead, passenger services ceased on the southern curve of the triangle junction towards
Bushey on 6 June 1966, In 1989, the original platform was removed due to safety concerns and a temporary timber-framed platform was built on the other side of the track. This was followed by a temporary wooden stairway leading up to the tracks in 1990 to replace the dilapidated sheltered stairway. A section of the embankment just east of the Grand Union Canal bridge was removed to make way for a dual carriageway to improve traffic flow to the nearby business park. It was considered uneconomical to bridge the road, and so the station remains breached from the rest of the line. The
Department for Transport authorised permanent closure in a letter dated November 2002. Both the station and the line were permanently closed on 29 September 2003. The street-level signage was removed between August 2012 and May 2014. Today, little of the station furniture remains and the station is almost completely overgrown. The original track is still in place, though all electrical equipment has been removed. The station gates have fallen into disrepair, and have been replaced with temporary security fencing. Steps up to platform level are still in-place with their handrails, alongside the faded Network SouthEast-red lamp posts. Access to the viaduct across the Grand Union Canal is restricted with permanent fencing and locked gates.
Croxley Rail Link Plans were announced in 2005 for the
Croxley Rail Link, which would to re-open the disused branch line as an extension of the
London Underground Metropolitan line to . The plans did not include reopening Croxley Green, as a new stretch of track was planned to bypass the station, linking the line instead to the nearby
Croxley tube station. Construction work began in 2014 but was halted in 2017 due to funding problems, and the scheme has since been abandoned. == References ==