Looking to visit St Albans to enjoy our City of Ale weekend? Here's how you can get here easily.
St Albans has two railway stations, both a 10-15 minute walk from the city centre. Every bus in St Albans stops in St Peters Street, the main shopping street in the middle of the city.
Rail
St Albans City station is served by the Thameslink Railway, with a frequent service throughout the day to stations between Brighton, Gatwick Airport, London and Bedford. Passengers from the East Midlands, Chesterfield and Sheffield can connect with Thameslink trains at Bedford, to avoid travelling into London. Thameslink trains also provide a convenient connection to and from Luton Airport.
There will be engineering works on this line on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th April, so if travelling on either of these days, you may wish to consider alternative routes (see below).
St Albans Abbey station is served by London North Western Railway from Watford Junction, for connections to the West Midlands, the North West, North Wales and Scotland.
If the East Coast Mainline is convenient for you, then you may wish to consider travelling by train to Hatfield then getting on one of the very frequent buses to St Albans from there.
Buses
There is a network of buses from many parts of Hertfordshire to St Albans, plus local buses to get around the City. Details of the times of all buses to and from St Albans – and throughout Hertfordshire – can be found on the Intalink website.
Great Value Fares and Improved Frequencies
It has never been easier or better value to travel to St Albans by bus! The £3 maximum single fare applies to all buses to St Albans. There is also a range of Intalink Connect tickets which offer unlimited travel on all buses for the whole day, and these can be cheaper, especially for groups travelling together. Details of the range of Intalink Connect tickets are here.
In addition, Hertfordshire County Council continues to work with local operators to improve the bus services on key links across the county. The result is that there is now a frequency of at least 4 buses an hour (on weekday daytimes) on these main corridors to St Albans:
Luton, Harpenden (route 321)
Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield (routes 301, 302, 602, 653, 724, 725)
Watford (routes 321, 724, 725)
Hemel Hempstead (routes 300, 302)
Last buses from St Albans
Many routes run late into the evening, to make it easy for getting back from St Albans to other nearby towns. The last buses from St Peters Street on Mondays to Saturdays on the main routes are shown below.