Friends of St Albans City Railway Station

26/01/2026

Can you help put St Albans on the Community Rail Map? Please vote!

Beds & Herts CRP's LIne Officer, Andy Buckley, has once again been shortlisted for this year's national Community Rail Awards in the Photographic Competition, which is now open for public voting.

His shortlisted photo (attached) depicts a bench, previously in his parents' back garden, being delivered to the St Albans South Signal Box museum after being extensively refurbished by Companions at St Albans Emmaus Community and ex-offenders from HACRO’s** ‘Turnaround’ group.

As this is the year of ‘Railway 200’ the bench has been given a celebratory theme using design elements from a workshop with Yr 4s at The Camp school in St Albans, led by Chris Blanch form the St Albans Arts Team CIC (helped by Andy), which were turned into a mosaic design by local artist Audrey Montet of Montet Designs.

The bench has been installed in the signal box museum garden next to St Albans City station, and is open for all to view at the free open days held regularly at the museum.

>>You can support Andy’s entry captioned 'Wait for my signal' with your vote - please have a look at the shortlist here:
https://communityrail.org.uk/community-rail-awards-2026-photography-competition/
but note that voting closes on 30th January 2026

08/08/2025

Looking forward to seeing what the design for the Railway 200 themed commemorative bench looks like :)

08/08/2025

Signal Box museum open this Sunday afternoon 10th August - Free Entry and well worth a visit.
At the south end of the car park off Platform 4 / Ridgmont Road side of St Albans City Station

Beds & Herts Community Rail Partnership

On Sunday 10th August the signal box will be open from 2 till 5. If you haven't been for a while why not come along and see the recent aquisitions and additions. Two new ground signals including one from the Cheshire Line Committee and a Midland fog repeater and of course the extension to the garden railway. Tea and coffee available and still free entry although donations are always welcome.

23/05/2025

Great to work with Beds & Herts Community Rail Partnership and Thameslink staff and our station friends the Daylight Club and St Albans Arts Team, planting out the planters, and freshening up the artwork on platform1 as part of on Tuesday.

Good work guys :)

Rail Network

12/05/2025

A reminder that the second phase of footbridge refurbishment is happening:

>>12 May for approximately 2 weeks

25/04/2025

FORTHCOMING FOOTBRIDGE REFURB at ST ALBANS CITY STATION
April to June with restricted access to lifts. Please see poster for further information.

Beds & Herts Community Rail Partnership Thameslink The St Albans Times All things St Albans

05/03/2025

News release from GTR/Thameslink

>>MP hails St Albans City station bike safety event 'a fantastic opportunity'

Cyclists in St Albans have made the most of free bike marking, safety advice and a service worth £40 at an event organised by Thameslink recently.

The country’s largest train operator, Govia Thameslink Railway, organised the event with the British Transport Police and Hertfordshire Constabulary in response to bike theft concerns, empowering cyclists with the tools and knowledge to boost security and stay safe.

St Albans MP Daisy Cooper hailed the event as a success and encouraged bike owners to mark and register their bikes.

St Albans City is one of the best-equipped stations for cyclists in the country – with 1150 spaces – many kept behind a fence and locked gate, accessible only by cyclists registered on the station’s Cycle Hub scheme.

MP Daisy Cooper said: “In St Albans, particularly at the City station, bike thefts are all too common an occurrence. It’s been deeply worrying to hear about various incidents: from bike locks being cut to bikes even being taken from the 'Cycle Hub' secure storage facility at the station.

“[This] event, which follows months of discussions about this problem between myself, Thameslink, British Transport Police and our St Albans Neighbourhood Police, provided a fantastic opportunity to protect against such incidents.

Thameslink’s head of security and policing, Mike Boyce, said: “We’re committed to making each journey greener and better for the environment – and part of this includes encouraging passengers to take sustainable methods of transport to and from our stations.

“We understand the blight bike theft has on the public – and that’s why we’ll be hosting more of these events across our network so cyclists can register and mark their bikes – the more people who take part, the more robust the scheme is.”

Beds & Herts Community Rail Partnership Thameslink Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity The St Albans Times All things St Albans

26/02/2025

Hopefully the rain will ease to allow this FREE cycle safety check and marking event to go ahead this afternoon from 4pm at the Station Way side of the station.

The St Albans Times Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity

A reminder that GTR/Thameslink have arranged a FREE bicycle safety check and security advice and bike marking event for TODAY (Weds 26th) at St Albans City station from 4pm - 7pm

Our friendly bike mechanic Ethan will be in attendance to give your bike a free safety check - first come first served.

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13/02/2025

GTR's online competition >Destination Dash< coming this weekend!

Includes a task set at St Albans Signal Box museum!! 😃

The St Albans Times Community Rail Network

21/01/2025

>>Community Rail Awards 2025 Photo Competition shortlisted entry

06/12/2024

Our Station Friends the Daylight Club (a social group for adults with additional needs) have been busy making Festive decorations and a small group of club members came down to the station and decorated the Christmas tree at the Platform 4 entrance.

Nicely done! Thank you!

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01/11/2024

Help support our Station Friends by buying a ticket or two in the St Albans Community Lottery.

=> Tickets £1 each per draw
=> Draw each week - 1st Prize of up to £25,000!
=> Super Draw each month with massive prizes
=> 50p from each ticket sale goes to good causes including the Friends of St Albans City Station

See below for details of this month's Super Draw

The latest Community Lottery Super Draw prize in support of our Friends of St Albans City Railway Station ia a PS5 Pro bundle (including a 50" TV!) or £1000 cash!

Draw takes place end of November - tickets £1 each - with 50p from each ticket sold going to the CRP. We've used the money to fund activities such as Christmas Decorations at the Station in previousl years.

See https://www.stalbansdistrictlottery.co.uk/support/beds-and-herts-community-rail-partnership/buytickets

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