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Heath Park Halt was a railway station in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in England, UK. It was the terminus for passenger services on the Nicky Line, a branch line which ran from into Hemel Hempstead town centre. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1947, and the station closed with the line in 1960. The station was located on an embankment above the junction of Station Road and Corner Hall Road. Today, nothing of the station or the embankment remains; the site it occupied lies directly opposite the former Kodak headquarters building. ==History== The Nickey Line was opened in 1877 to provide a town-centre railway link from Hemel Hempstead to the Midland Main Line. Hemel Hempstead's closest station, Boxmoor station, was located a mile outside the town centre. The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) line which opened in 1838 had been forced to follow a route which bypassed the town by a mile after resistance to the railway by influential local landowners, and the town council sought to provide a more convenient station for the municipality. After several years of failed proposals, the Hemel Hempstead and London and Birmingham Railway company failed financially and in the end the project to build a line into the town centre was rescued by the Midland Railway company who agreed to fund the project.〔Woodward 1996, p.7〕 Originally the line terminated at Hemel Hempsted station but demand for coal supplies to Duckhall Gasworks meant that a good service was able to run almost as far as the main line at Boxmoor. Passenger services were extended, but not as far as Boxmoor, and Heath Park Halt opened in 1905, becoming the new passenger terminus.〔Woodward 1996, pp.52-59〕 The station consisted of a single timber platform on an embankment, on the west side of the line between two rail bridges over Station Road and Corner Hall Road.〔 A goods yard, Cotrerells Siding, veered north from the halt to Boxmoor Iron Works. An iron gas lamp stood opposite the station, outside the Heath Park Hotel, which still stands today.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://goo.gl/maps/7b2zv )〕 South of Heath Park Halt, the Nickey Line crossed the moor along an embankment, crossing the Grand Junction Canal and the London Road (today's A41 road) to the gasworks. A connection was not with the West Coast Main Line at Boxmoor due to rivalry between the Midland Railway and the LNWR (who took over the L&BR in 1846), who competed for passengers for many years. The LNWR operated a competing bus from Hemel town centre to Boxmoor to "poach" passengers for its main line service to . After the two competitors were merged into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), Nickey Line passenger services were reduced and more investment was put into the bus service which was extended to Harpenden.〔Woodward 2006 - Historical Background〕 In 1920, the townspeople of Hemel Hempstead were presented with a battlefield tank by the National War Savings Committee in recognition of their contribution to the war effort during World War I. The tank was delivered to Heath Park railway depot and placed on a plinth outside the Heath Park Hotel. It remained on public display until the outbreak of World War II, when it was removed and broken up for scrap metal.〔Woodward 2006 - Heath Park Halt〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heath Park Halt railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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