Editing Tring (section)

==Transport==
===Railway===
[[File:London Midland train at Tring Station.jpg|thumb|A [[London Midland]] train at Tring railway station]]

[[Tring railway station]] is located about {{convert|2|mi}} east of the town and lies on the [[West Coast Main Line]]. It is served by [[West Midlands Trains|London Northwestern]] services from {{rws|Milton Keynes Central}} to [[Euston railway station|London Euston]]; in addition, [[Southern (train operating company)|Southern]] operates the cross-London service to {{rws|East Croydon}} via {{rws|Clapham Junction}}. The station is served by slow and semi-fast trains. 

====History====
[[File:Tring Cutting, 1839.jpg|thumb|Lithograph entitled ''Tring Cutting'' by John C. Bourne (1839) illustrating the excavation near Tring for the London and Birmingham Railway]]

The station was originally opened in 1837 by the [[London & Birmingham Railway]], under the direction of the railway engineer [[Robert Stephenson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10302327 |title='Tring Cutting', Hertfordshire, 17 June 1837 |website=Science & Society Picture Library |access-date=5 April 2015}}</ref>

The remote location of Tring railway station was due to changes to the route of the railway imposed on Stephenson by local landowners such as [[John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow|Lord Brownlow]], who wished to protect his [[Ashridge]] Estate.<ref name=Birtchnell>{{cite book|last=Birtchnell|first=Percy|title=A Short History of Berkhamsted|year=1960|chapter=Our Communications|publisher=Book Stack |isbn=978-1-87137-200-7}}</ref> The location is sometimes wrongly attributed to objections, which were said to have been made by [[Nathan Mayer Rothschild|Lord Rothschild]] to protect his land in Tring; in fact, Lord Rothschild was not born until 1840, three years after the railway had opened, and the Tring lands were only acquired by his father [[Lionel de Rothschild|Lionel]] in 1872. He did, however, object to a much later plan to build a steam tramway between Tring station and {{rws|Aylesbury}}.<ref name=austin>{{cite web |title=The Railway Comes To Tring: 1835–1846 |url=https://tringlocalhistory.org.uk/Railway_local/index.htm |access-date=3 April 2021 |last1=Austin |first1=Wendy |last2=Petticrew |first2=Ian |date=November 2013 |website=TringLocalHistory.org.uk}}</ref>

An extension of the [[Metropolitan Railway]] was once considered from {{lus|Chesham}}, making Tring station the terminus, with connections to the main line companies serving the north; this project was not realised.<ref>{{cite book|first=Clive |last=Foxell |title=Chesham Shuttle |edition=2 |year=1996 |publisher=Clive Foxell |location=Chesham |isbn=0-9529184-0-4|page=32}}</ref>

===Buses===
Bus services in Tring are operated by [[Arriva UK Bus|Arriva]], Red Rose Travel and Red Eagle. Key direct destinations include [[Aylesbury]], [[Dunstable]], [[Hemel Hempstead]], [[Luton]] and [[Watford]].  

===Roads===
In 1973, the [[A41 road|A41]] Tring [[Bypass (road)|bypass]] was opened.<ref name=prince>{{cite book |last=Prince |first=Hugh |title=Parks in Hertfordshire since 1500 |year=2008|publisher=Hertfordshire Publications |location=Hatfield|isbn=9780954218997|page=270}}</ref> The bypass runs through [[Tring Park]] and was originally conceived as the first stretch of a new [[motorway]], the A41(M), which was planned to run from the M25 at [[Hunton Bridge]] to Aylesbury; the project was not realised and the bypass was downgraded to [[trunk road]] status. In 1993, the A41 bypass was extended with {{convert|12|mi}} of grade-separated dual carriageway that links the Tring bypass to the M25.{{cn|date=September 2024}}