Chorleywood station

Chorleywood is a London Underground and National Rail station in Travelcard Zone 7 (previously zone B) on the Metropolitan line. The village of Chorleywood is in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire about 20 miles (32 km) from London. Chorleywood station is also served by Chiltern Railways, which runs trains from London Marylebone station through to Aylesbury.

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Chorleywood
Chorleywood Location of Chorleywood in Hertfordshire
Location	Chorleywood
Local authority	District of Three Rivers
Managed by	London Underground
Station code(s)	CLW
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	7
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019	1.49 million[2]
2020	0.77 million[3]
2021	0.80 million[4]
2022	1.34 million[5]
2023	1.46 million[6]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	0.557 million[7]
2020–21	0.128 million[7]
2021–22	0.336 million[7]
2022–23	0.455 million[7]
2023–24	0.518 million[7]
Key dates
1889	Opened
14 November 1966	Goods yard closed[8]
Other information
External links	TfL station info page Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51.6542°N 0.5183°W / 51.6542; -0.5183
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The station was built by expanding the local train station and was opened as "Chorley Wood" in July 1889. The name was changed to "Chorley Wood & Chenies" in November 1915 until 1934 when it reverted to the original name until 1965. The present name has existed since then.^[9] Chorleywood station was formerly served by steam-hauled Metropolitan line trains from Aylesbury to London, with a changeover to an electric locomotive at Rickmansworth. Steam trains were withdrawn in 1961 when electrification north of Rickmansworth to Amersham and Chesham was completed. From the early 1960s to 2012, Metropolitan line trains at Chorleywood were formed of London Underground A60 Stock (and the almost identical A62 Stock), but were replaced by London Underground S8 stock. Chiltern Railways (Aylesbury-Marylebone) trains are formed by Class 165 diesel multiple units.

Between October 2004 and December 2011 almost all southbound Metropolitan line trains from Chorleywood into London were fast trains to Baker Street, calling at Rickmansworth, Moor Park, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Wembley Park, Finchley Road and Baker Street. Since December 2011 only a few morning peak hour Metropolitan line trains have been operated as fast trains, at other times the trains mostly call at all stations, adding over 10 minutes to journey times. The journey to central London takes around 35–50 minutes depending on the line and time of day. Northbound Metropolitan line trains call at all stations to Amersham or Chesham.

The station has two platforms shared between the London Underground Metropolitan line and National Rail. Both platforms are accessible from street level.^[1] On Platform 2, there is one of the few surviving K8 telephone kiosks. Now used for the TfL internal system, the kiosk is Grade II listed^[10]