Most members will be aware that Bricket Wood Station from the 1930s until the 1960s featured in a number of films and television productions in which the station doubled as a number of locations including Euston Station. This ended in the 1960s probably because the station building was closed in 1968 and bricked up in […]
It is with profound sadness and shock that we report the passing of Laurie Hart, one of our founding members, Trustees and latterly Chairman of the Bricket Wood Station Heritage Trust. Laurie was one of life’s true gentlemen, and has been a ‘local legend’ in Bricket Wood for very many years. He was there right
The restoration of Bricket Wood station, by the Bricket Wood Station Heritage Trust, has been recognised with a prestigious National Railway Heritage Award (NRHA); the highest honour available for the restoration of railway buildings and structures in the UK. At a ceremony at the Mechant Taylors’ Hall in London on Wednesday 4th December, two of
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At a special outing of the Railway Heritage Trust (RHT) Advisory Panel to the station on Monday 14th October, a plaque commemorating the station’s restoration and the RHT’s part in that was unveiled. In August 2021 the RHT kindly awarded the Bricket Wood Station Heritage Trust £67,000 towards the restoration of the station, then in
We are very pleased to say that, with funding from the Railway Heritage Trust, the train operating company West Midlands Trains have changed their colour scheme on much of the platform equipment from corporate green and white to be more in line with the original London and North Western Railway colouring and in keeping with
On a busy Friday at the station Cheryl Clark, who runs the Tea Room, was joined by guests and some of the Trustees to celebrate the Tea Room’s first full year of operation. Cheryl had baked a special anniversary cake and is pictured, along with those Trustees who could make it, as well as Postie
The Trust was particularly pleased to have recently received the Special Community Award from St Stephen Parish Council for services to the local community. This recognition is really very special as it gets to the heart of the project which had the objective of not only restoring the station building but also creating a welcoming
Three more period additions to the station ‘furniture’ have been made; two replica benches for the platform side of the building, and a wall lamp on the car park side. The benches have been painstakingly recreated from an original LNWR design, with the metalwork produced by local firm JMN Welding Services of Hemel Hempstead. The
We are delighted to have received the award for ‘Most Enhanced Railway Space’ at the Community Rail Awards 2024, which took place in Swansea on Monday 18th March. The awards celebrate the hard work and passion of the community rail movement, which has been going for 20 years (the Abbey Line was actually one of
Following the grand opening in October, another phase of Bricket Wood station’s restoration has been completed, with the installation of some beautiful replica signage and poster display cases. The signs and poster cases, designed and manufactured by Transport Signs Ltd, have been recreated following meticulous research between the company and the Trust. There were no
