St Albans Transportation

Please note that until 2012, for essential Thameslink Programme engineering work, the route between St Pancras International and London Bridge/Herne Hill will be closed at the following times:

* All day on most Saturdays and Sundays (see below for a list of Saturdays and Sundays that services will operate)
* Between 2230 and 0430 (overnight) on Mondays to Fridays

On the following days, Thameslink route limited stop services between London and Bedford will operate from the high-level platforms (platforms 1-4), at St Pancras International while the all-stations services to/from Luton will go no further south than Kentish Town*.

* Sunday, 14 March
* Sunday, 28 March

* stopping services will terminate and start from Kentish Town between approximately 0630-1930 on Saturdays and approximately 0930-1930 on Sundays; outside these hours they will also run to and from the high-level platforms (platforms 1-4), at St Pancras International.

Customers requiring trains that start from/terminate at Kentish Town should use the Northern line between Kentish Town and central London to complete their journey. For advice on how to get to your destination, visit the Thameslink Programme website.

Saturdays and Sundays on which a train service will run through central London:

Sunday 21 March 2010
Saturday 10 April 2010
Sunday 11 April 2010
Sunday 16 May 2010
Sunday 6 June 2010
Sunday 12 September 2010
Sunday 3 October 2010
Sunday 17 October 2010
Saturday 23 October 2010
Sunday 24 October 2010
Saturday 6 November 2010
Sunday 7 November 2010

If on a short visit to St. Albans there is a long term car park located at Westminster Lodge (near Verulanium Park). Parking is free for the first four hours of your visit. For those with a sat-nav the postcode is AL1 2DL‎. The walk up to town from here through the park is nice and will take about 10 minutes.

St Albans can be reached easily from London by following the M1, or from King's Cross Thameslink to St Albans City Station. The Museum and Theatre are about 10 minutes walk from City Station. It can also be reached from Euston/ Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey Station.

St. Albans City train station is only 20 mins away from Kings Cross in Central London. From the train station itself you can walk to the city centre in 10 mins (uphill) along Victoria Street.

There is a second train station on a seperate line (St. Albans Abbey) that connects St. Albans with Watford Junction.

St. Albans is known as a commuter town to London. Hence, travel links between it and the capital are good. There are regular trains between St. Albans and London's King Cross (and other stations on the Thameslink line). It takes from 20-30 minutes to get there and costs 7 pounds for a day return ticket (as of 2006). The station at St Albans is in the south of the town, about 10 minutes walk from the centre.

St Albans is very easy to visit by car from London. Its located right next to the M25 London orbital motorway (junction 21A or 22) and also if you're travelling from the north, the M1/M10 is even closer. As for parking, its best to park in the Verulamium Museum car park which is west of the city centre as its the cheapest at 80p per stay. If you stay in the other city centre car parks then you have to pay by the hour. From the museum car park you can visit the museum, St Michael's church, the Roman theatre remains, walk down Fishpool Street into the city centre and then onto the cathedral and back to the car park through Verulamium Park.