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{{short description|London Underground station}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox London station
| name        = Croxley
| symbol      = underground
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| image_name  = Croxley Tube Station - exterior.JPG
| caption     = Station entrance
| map_type    = Hertfordshire
| coordinates = {{coord|51.6475|-0.4413|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| manager     = [[London Underground]]
| fare_zone   = 7
| locale      = [[Croxley Green]]
| borough     = [[Three Rivers (district)|Three Rivers]]
| events1     = Opened as ''Croxley Green''
| years1      = 2 November 1925
| events2     = Renamed ''Croxley''
| years2      = 23 May 1949
| events3     = Goods yard closed<ref name="UN591">{{cite journal | title=How it used to be – freight on The Underground 50 years ago | journal=Underground News |date=March 2011 | issue=591 | pages=175–183 | editor1-first=Brian | editor1-last=Hardy | publisher=London Underground Railway Society | issn=0306-8617 }}</ref>
| years3=14 November 1966
| platforms   = 2
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| original    = [[Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway]]
| postgroup   = Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway
}}
'''Croxley''' is a [[London Underground]] station located on Watford Road ([[A412 road|A412]]) in [[Croxley Green]], [[Rickmansworth]], [[Hertfordshire]]. It is on the Watford branch of the [[Metropolitan line]] between [[Watford tube station|Watford]] and [[Moor Park tube station|Moor Park]] stations. It is the only intermediate station on the branch.

It is in [[London fare zone 7]].

==History==
Croxley station opened on 2 November 1925 as "Croxley Green" on the [[Metropolitan Railway]]'s extension to {{stl|LUL|Watford}} with lines connecting both {{stl|LUL|Rickmansworth}} and {{stl|LUL|Moor Park}}. However, this led to confusion as there was another [[Croxley Green railway station|Croxley Green]] opened by the [[London and North Western Railway|LNWR]] in 1912, so it was renamed to "Croxley" in 1949. There had been shuttles running to and from Rickmansworth stations regularly but was withdrawn in January 1960, later reinstated in 1987 but only one in early morning and late evenings each way. The shuttles to Rickmansworth were later extended to Amersham following the introduction of the longer [[London Underground S7 and S8 Stock|S8 Stock]] trains.

==Metropolitan Line Extension==
The [[Croxley Rail Link]] is a railway engineering project which would have resulted in the Watford branch services on the London Underground's Metropolitan line being diverted at Baldwins Lane from the current terminus at Watford tube station onto the alignment of the disused Watford and Rickmansworth Railway between Croxley Green railway station and Watford High Street stations before continuing to Watford Junction. The diversion would require the construction of a viaduct over the Grand Union Canal, [[River Gade]] and the [[A412 road|A412]].

On 25 January 2017, the ''[[Watford Observer]]'' newspaper published an update on the Croxley Rail Link confirming work had stopped as there was an ongoing funding issue.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/15047214.UPDATE__Met_Line_extension__Mayor_confirms_work_has_stopped/|title = UPDATE: Met Line extension: Mayor confirms work has stopped| date=25 January 2017 }}</ref>

{{Adjacent stations|noclear=y
 |system1=London Underground
  |line1=Metropolitan|left1=Watford|right1=Moor Park|to-left1=Watford|note-mid1=Watford branch
|line2=Metropolitan|left2=Watford|right2=Rickmansworth|to-left2=Watford|note-mid2=Watford branch (North Curve)<br>''Limited service''|to-right2=Rickmansworth or Chesham|header3=Abandoned Croxley Rail Link|line3=Metropolitan|left3=Moor Park|right3=Cassiobridge|to-left3=Baker Street or Aldgate|to-right3=Watford Junction}}

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Metropolitan line stations]]
[[Category:Tube stations in Hertfordshire]]
[[Category:Former Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway stations]]
[[Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1925]]
[[Category:Croxley Rail Link]]
[[Category:Charles Walter Clark railway stations]]

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