As I’m still reading through the Railway Times (I’ve reached the second issue now), this is from November 1837 and the London & Birmingham Railway has now managed to reach Tring. Although the railway station wasn’t built that near to Tring, the excited local population funded part of a new road to make it more accessible to residents.
They reached Tring on 16 October 1837 and it would be on 17 September 1838 that the full line between London Euston and Birmingham was opened. The glorious station and the Euston Arch were constructed in 1837, but the disaster that was the nationalised British Rail pulled it all down in the 1960s. But, that’s a different story.
Reading the Railway Times it’s evident just how exciting the advent of the new rail era actually was, the country was opening up and there were all manner of opportunities ahead. I was going to note that I’ve never been to Tring, but I’ve remembered that we walked through it when walking the Ridgeway a few years ago.