Watford Vicarage Road tube station

Watford Vicarage Road
Vicarage Road railway bridge (Looking north-east towards the hospital) The future site of the station is on the left of the bridge
Watford Vicarage Road Location of Watford Vicarage Road in Hertfordshire
Location	Watford
Local authority	Watford
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	No Data
2013	No Data
2014	No Data
2015	No Data
Key dates
2018	Planned opening
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°38′48″N 0°24′33″W / 51.646626°N 0.409284°W / 51.646626; -0.409284Coordinates: 51°38′48″N 0°24′33″W / 51.646626°N 0.409284°W / 51.646626; -0.409284

Watford Vicarage Road is a planned London Underground station to be built in Watford, Hertfordshire, to serve Vicarage Road stadium and the Watford General Hospital campus. The station is being constructed as part of the Croxley Rail Link project, a scheme to extend the Metropolitan line across the town to Watford Junction railway station. It will be served by Metropolitan line trains between Watford Junction and Central London via Baker Street. Originally the station was to be named either Watford Hospital or Watford General Hospital.

Watford Vicarage Road is to be a newly constructed station on a re-opened section of the former LNWR Watford and Rickmansworth Railway line which was closed by British Rail in 1996. The station is to be located to the west of Vicarage Road, adjacent to Holywell allotments, with the platforms in the railway cutting below the road. The single-storey glass and metal-clad station building is to be at street level, with staircases and lifts providing platform access. Designs for the new station, and others on the link, have been prepared by Acanthus LW Architects.

The new station will be between the sites of two former railway stations on the old LNWR line; to the west of the former Watford Stadium Halt and to the east of the former Watford West railway station (which was located to the west of the new station site, on Tolpits Lane). It is not planned to re-open these disused stations and the platforms at both former stations will be removed or modified to accommodate the two new tracks.