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Welwyn Garden City railway station serves the town of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. It is 20 miles 25 chains (20.31 miles, 32.69 km) from London King's Cross on the East Coast Main Line. [2] Train services are currently provided by Thameslink and Great Northern.
Although the station is north of Welwyn Garden City, the village of Welwyn is about 1 mile (1.6 km) west in the modern district of Digswell, which in 1865 was known as High Welwyn and is shown on maps of that period. It is still called High Welwyn as Digswell Parish was dissolved in 1926 when it became absorbed into Welwyn Garden City.
Trains initially ran to temporary wooden platforms at Welwyn (on the site of the present Welwyn Garden City railway station). From 1 September 1860 trains ran on to Hatfield, and the temporary platforms were closed. The present station was opened in 1926.
Welwyn Viaduct from Digswell Park Road. The Digswell Viaduct, also called Welwyn Viaduct, is a railway viaduct that carries the East Coast Main Line over the River Mimram in the county of Hertfordshire in England. A prominent local landmark, it is located between Welwyn Garden City and Digswell. It is just to the south of Welwyn North railway ...
It can be linked to a separate section of Route 61, also along a disused railway route, runs from Welwyn Garden City to Hertford and is called the Cole Green Way. The remains of most of the station platforms still exist along the route, with many as of 2017 having recently been refurbished along with signage and street names painted into the ...
Zone 12, or Zone C, is Shenfield station Zone 13, or Zone D, consists of the stations between zone 6 and Gatwick Airport. Zone 14, or Zone E, is Gatwick Airport station Zone 15, or Zone F, was reserved for Elizabeth line stations out to Reading, [3] although it hasn't been used.
The infrastructure of the East Coast Main Line consists of the tunnels, viaducts and bridges on the East Coast Main Line as well as the line-side monitoring equipment. The line is mainly quadruple track from London to Stoke Tunnel, south of Grantham, with two double track sections: one between Digswell Jn & Woolmer Green Jn, where the line passes over the Digswell Viaduct, Welwyn North station ...
Welwyn Garden City (/ ˈ w ɛ l ɪ n / ⓘ WEL-in) is a town in Hertfordshire, England, 20 miles (32 km) north of London.It was the second garden city in England (founded 1920) and one of the first new towns (designated 1948).