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{{Short description|Railway station in Hertfordshire, England}}

{{Infobox UK station

{{distinguish|Hatfield Peverel railway station|Hadfield railway station|Hatfield & Stainforth railway station}}

|name = Hatfield

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|image = [[Image:Hatfield_rail_station.jpg|300px|Hatfield Railway Station]]

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|manager = [[First Capital Connect]]

{{Infobox London station

|locale = [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]]

| symbol = rail

|borough = [[Welwyn Hatfield]]

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| railcode = HAT

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| manager = [[Thameslink and Great Northern|Great Northern]]

| locale = [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]]

| borough = [[Welwyn Hatfield|Borough of Welwyn Hatfield]]

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| events3 = Multi-storey Car Park opened

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'''Hatfield railway station''' serves the town of [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]] in [[Hertfordshire]]. The station is 29 km (17¾ miles) north of [[Kings Cross railway station|London Kings Cross]] on the [[East Coast Main Line]]. The station is managed and served by [[First Capital Connect]].

'''Hatfield railway station''' serves the town of [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]] in [[Hertfordshire]], [[England]]. The station is managed by [[Thameslink and Great Northern|Great Northern]]. It is {{convert|17|mi|54|chain|km|lk=in}} measured from {{rws|London King's Cross}} on the [[East Coast Main Line]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Padgett |first=David |editor-last=Brailsford |editor-first=Martyn |title=Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern |edition=4th |date=October 2016 |orig-year=1988 |publisher=Trackmaps |___location=Frome |isbn=978-0-9549866-8-1 |at=map 15A }}</ref>

== History ==

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]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cockman|first1=F.G.|title=The Railways of Hertfordshire|date=1983|publisher=Hertfordshire Publications|___location=Stevenage, UK|page=24}}</ref> The route of the line is now a public footpath, the [[Alban Way]].

Hatfield was the junction for a now closed branch line to [[Dunstable Town railway station|Dunstable Town]]. It was also the junction of a second railway that ran to [[St Albans Abbey railway station|St Albans Abbey]].

===Station masters===

{{Div col}}

*Mr. Unwin ca. 1850 (acting)

*Edmund Cooter 1856 - 1866<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |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 }}</ref> (formerly station master at Hornsey)

*Mr. Bellamy ???? - 1878

*Robert Vodden 1878 - 1906<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |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 }}</ref>

*Thomas Christopher 1910 - 1915<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |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 }}</ref> (afterwards station master at Doncaster)

*John Thomas Cross 1917 - 1923

*Frederick B. Martin 1932 - 1939

*Arthur W. Bellamy 1940 - 1949

*T.J. Piggott 1951<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |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 }}</ref> - ???? (formerly station master at Sandy)

*A.G. Dixon ca. 1960

{{Div col end}}

{{Expand list|date=March 2020}}

==Facilities==

Hatfield was also the scene of train accident in October 2000, when a [[GNER]] high speed train de-railed killing four people and injuring 70 more. [[Hatfield rail crash|More details]].

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.

==Service==

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.

Daytimes there is generally a half-hourly fast service to London Kings Cross southbound and service every 20 minutes stopping service to [[Moorgate railway station|Moorgate]] Monday to Fridays and half-hourly on weekends to Kings Cross.

==Services==

Northbound there is an half-hourly service to [[Stevenage railway station|Stevenage]] and hourly to [[Cambridge railway station|Cambridge]] and [[Peterborough railway station|Peterborough]] respectively. There is also a stopping service to [[Welwyn Garden City railway station|Welwyn Garden City]].

Off-peak, all services at Hatfield are operated by [[Govia Thameslink Railway|Great Northern]] using {{brc|387}} and {{brc|717|n}} [[Electric multiple unit|EMUs]].

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

== External links ==

* 2 tph to {{stnlnk|London King's Cross}} (semi-fast)

{{stn art lnk|HAT|AL95AB}}

* 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 [[Govia Thameslink Railway|Thameslink]] operated services to and from {{stnlnk|Sevenoaks}} via {{stnlnk|Catford}} call at the station during the peak hours.

[[Image:Hatfield_Station_Train.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Train coming toward Hatfield Railway Station]]

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{{rail line|previous=Terminus|next=[[Lemsford Road Halt railway station|Lemsford Road Halt]]|route=[[British Rail]]<br><small>[[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|St Albans Branch Line]]|col=012385}}

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==Redevelopment==

Hatfield Station was redeveloped in 2013&mdash;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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Work on the project, which was to cost £9 million,<ref>{{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 |archive-date=13 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013134259/http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/9m_hatfield_rail_station_refurbishment_approved_1_1650963 |url-status=dead }}</ref> began in 2013 and was completed by the end of 2015.

The new multi-storey car park opened on 17 November 2014.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Accidents==

Three fatal rail crashes have occurred near Hatfield:

* [[Hatfield rail crash (1870)|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.<ref name=Trevena>{{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}}</ref>

* [[Hatfield rail crash|October 2000 accident]], when a [[Great North Eastern Railway|GNER]] [[InterCity 225]] train de-railed, killing four people and injuring 70.

==Gallery==

<gallery>

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, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]].

File:Hatfield_Station_Train.jpg

</gallery>

==References==

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