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Railway Hotels in St Albans

The City railway station, so far from the city centre and the inns, pubs etc that had served the stage coach trade, only obtained two pubs in its locality. One was the Midland Hotel:
TL1507 : St. Albans
Regrettably it closed around 2000 and was converted into apartments:
TL1507 : Midland Place

On the opposite side of the road was the "Midland Station Hotel" which is still a pub, but under the name of "The Horn", noted for music events. Unfortunately no one seems to have photographed this for Geograph yet!

The "Great Northern" on London Road in TL1506 was not built as a railway hotel - it is a relatively recent renaming of an existing pub and is much further away from the Great Northern's London Road station than the two Midland Hotels were from the City station.

One pub, demolished some time ago, was built at the bottom of Holywell Hill to serve the London and North-Western Abbey station.

(For the above information I am indebted to a presentation by Jon Mein at the 2015 Annual Symposium of the Hertfordshire Association for Local History, held on November 21st at Wheathampstead.)

John Webb