SideTracked - Watton-at-Stone
Watton-at-Stone railway station serves the village of Watton-at-Stone in Hertfordshire, England. It is 23 miles 72 chains (23.90 miles, 38.46 km) down the line from London King's Cross on the Hertford Loop Line between Hertford North and Stevenage and is served by trains operated by Great Northern. According to the Watton-at-Stone Parish Council a proposal for a rail route between London and Stevenage was approved by Parliament in 1898 though construction did not begin until 1906. A single track section through Watton-at-Stone opened on 4th March 1918 with the track later being dualled. The station saw its first passenger train run through on 6th February 1920 but did so only when a train was diverted from the East Coast Main Line as the result of an accident. Scheduled passenger services of four trains per day started on 2nd June 1924 stopping on request at Watton-at-Stone. The station's life as a passenger service was short lived however and it closed just 15 years later on 10th September 1939 despite the famed locomotive engineer Nigel Gresley's residency in the village. The nationalised British Railways considered reopening the station in the 1960s but it was not until 1981 that a campaign to reopen the station gathered momentum. The bulk of the £120,000 costs were paid for by Hertfordshire County Council and British Rail but villagers and the parish council responded to a public appeal for funds and together contributed £8,000. On 17th May 1982 a small crowd gathered to board the 06:23 service from Watton-at-Stone to Moorgate, the first passenger train to serve the village in almost 43 years.
This is a traditional cache and IS at the published coordinates.
The cache is a 30ml tube.
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