Kings Langley railway station is almost under the M25 motorway near Junction 20. It serves the village of Kings Langley, and the nearby villages of Abbots Langley and Hunton Bridge. The station is 21 miles north west of London Euston on the West Coast Main Line. The station and all services calling at the station are operated by London Northwestern Railway. The station was opened in 1839.

Services

All services at Kings Langley are operated by London Northwestern Railway. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: During the peak hours, a number of additional services between London Euston, Tring and Bletchley call at the station. A number of early morning and late evening services are extended beyond Milton Keynes Central to and from Northampton and Birmingham New Street.

History

In July 1837 the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) opened the first part of its new railway line between London Euston Station and Boxmoor (now Hemel Hempstead). The line was fully opened between Euston and Birmingham Curzon Street in September 1838. Kings Langley had no station of its own, the nearest station being at Boxmoor or Watford. Local industrialist John Dickinson used his influence to convince the L&BR to open a station at Kings Langley, and in 1839 Kings Langley railway station opened. From 1909 the station was known as Kings Langley & Abbots Langley, becoming Kings Langley on 6 May 1974.

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