Hatfield railway station

Hatfield was formerly the junction of a branch to St Albans. The Hatfield and St Albans Railway closed to passenger traffic in 1951 as part of postwar economies brought in by the British Transport Commission.{{cite book|last1=Cockman|first1=F.G.|title=The Railways of Hertfordshire|date=1983|publisher=Hertfordshire Publications|location=Stevenage, UK|page=24}} The route of the line is now a public footpath, the Alban Way.

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• Mr. Unwin ca. 1850 (acting)
• Edmund Cooter 1856 - 1866{{cite news |author= |title=Hatfield |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000353/18661127/042/0003 |newspaper=Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal and General Advertiser |location=England |date=27 November 1866 |access-date=7 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} (formerly station master at Hornsey)
• Mr. Bellamy ???? - 1878
• Robert Vodden 1878 - 1906{{cite news |author= |title=Hertfordshire |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000353/18661127/042/0003 |newspaper=Luton Times and Advertiser |location=England |date=3 August 1906 |access-date=7 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
• Thomas Christopher 1910 - 1915{{cite news |author= |title=Mr Thomas Christopher |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19150421/030/0004 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=21 April 1915 |access-date=7 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} (afterwards station master at Doncaster)
• John Thomas Cross 1917 - 1923
• Frederick B. Martin 1932 - 1939
• Arthur W. Bellamy 1940 - 1949
• T.J. Piggott 1951{{cite news |author= |title=Promotion |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000753/19510914/187/0011 |newspaper=Biggleswade Chronicle |location=England |date=14 September 1951 |access-date=7 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} - ???? (formerly station master at Sandy)
• A.G. Dixon ca. 1960

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Hatfield has waiting rooms on all platforms, with extra shelters provided at various points along the platforms, as well as a canopy on Platform 1. There is a small café-shop style business, "Chuggs" on Platform 1, and three new retail units which opened in the new station building. There are three platform faces in total - platform 1 is a side platform facing the Up Slow line & used by London-bound trains (there is no platform on the Up Fast line), whilst platforms 2 & 3 face the Down Fast and Down Slow lines respectively; the latter is used by the majority of northbound trains.

The station has a "Fast-Ticket" machine, as well as a standard touchscreen machine on either side of the building. Hatfield also has many vending machines throughout the station and a photo booth inside the booking hall, which also contains male/female toilets and a separate disabled toilet. Ticket barriers are in operation.

Off-peak, all services at Hatfield are operated by Great Northern using {{brc|387}} and {{brc|717|n}} EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:{{NRtimes|December 2023|24, 25}}

• 2 tph to {{stnlnk|London King's Cross}} (semi-fast)
• 2 tph to {{stn|Moorgate}} (all stations)
• 2 tph to {{stnlnk|Welwyn Garden City}}
• 2 tph to {{stnlnk|Letchworth Garden City}} of which 1 continues to {{stnlnk|Cambridge}}

Additional services, including a number of Thameslink operated services to and from {{stnlnk|Sevenoaks}} via {{stnlnk|Catford}} call at the station during the peak hours.

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Hatfield Station was redeveloped in 2013—15 to include a new bus interchange and taxi rank, multi-storey car park, refurbished ticket office, three new retail units and step-free access to all platforms.{{cite web |publisher=First Capital Connect |url=http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/better-stations/hatfield/ |title=Better stations - Hatfield |access-date=15 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401012051/http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/better-stations/hatfield/ |archive-date=1 April 2014}}

Work on the project, which was to cost £9 million,{{cite news |first=Ross |last=Logan |newspaper=Welwyn Hatfield Times |url=http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/9m_hatfield_rail_station_refurbishment_approved_1_1650963 |title=£9m Hatfield rail station refurbishment approved |date=10 October 2012 |access-date=15 August 2013 }} began in 2013 and was completed by the end of 2015.

The new multi-storey car park opened on 17 November 2014.{{cite web |publisher=Great Northern|url=http://www.thameslinkrailway.com/about-us/news/new-multi-storey-car-park-opens-at-hatfield-station/ |title=New multi-storey car park opens}}

Three fatal rail crashes have occurred near Hatfield:

• December 1870 accident, when a disintegrated wheel resulted in the deaths of six passengers and two bystanders.
• Two accidents occurred on 26 January 1939. In the first, an empty fish train was involved in a rear-end collision with a passenger train. The second involved a passenger train which ran into the rear of another. Two people were killed and seven were injured.{{cite book |first=Arthur |last=Trevena |title=Trains in Trouble |volume=1 |publisher=Atlantic Books |location=Redruth |year=1980 |page=41 |isbn=0-906899-01-X}}
• October 2000 accident, when a GNER InterCity 225 train de-railed, killing four people and injuring 70.

File:Hatfield_railway_station.jpg|Hatfield railway station viewed from the public footbridge.

File:Grand Central Hatfield.JPG|A Grand Central train speeds through Hatfield en route from Sunderland.

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