St Albans Roadworks: A414 Shut Four Nights Running

The biggest item in the St Albans roadworks list this week is the A414 westbound, booked to shut overnight on four nights in a row from Monday 21 September. Two separate jobs are taking the same carriageway. National Highways closes it between Park Street Roundabout and M1 junction 8 from 10pm on Monday 21 September to 5am. Then the Park Street Roundabout works take over: the westbound carriageway from Park Street Roundabout to Breakspear Junction closes from 8pm to 6am on Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 September.

The M1 northbound resurfacing between junctions 6 and 8 is over for now. The Monday-to-Thursday overnight block that started on 7 September ran for the last time on the night of Thursday 17 September. It returns from 5 to 20 October.

In its place comes a bigger one. National Highways has made an order to close the M1 southbound between junction 6a and junction 5 overnight, 9pm to 6am, from 26 September for about two weeks. Junction 6a is the M25 interchange and junction 5 is the A41 at Watford, so it is the stretch immediately south of the one that has just finished, and the diversion is long: anticlockwise on the M25 to junction 20, then east on the A41. Below: every closure booked in and around St Albans over the next week, the county’s new six-month order covering five local roads, this weekend’s Thameslink changes, the council’s parking tariffs and the trains.

What is closed this week

The National Highways closure report published at 3.30pm on 18 September 2026 covers Friday 18 September to Thursday 24 September. These are the closures it books in and around St Albans district.

Nothing local is booked on Saturday night. It is the only clear night in the week.

Three of these are not planned maintenance. The M1 junction 6 exit slip and M25 clockwise junction 19 to junction 20 closures on Friday 18 September were both filed as urgent safety fence repairs, and the M25 anti-clockwise junction 20 exit slip the same night was down as an urgent carriageway repair. Urgent work is added at short notice and can be extended the same way, so those three are the ones most likely to reappear.

The junction 9 to 11a closure on Wednesday catches Redbourn and Harpenden drivers. Junction 9 is the A5183 turning, and northbound traffic joining there runs into a closure that is filed under a communications scheme covering the whole M1 from junction 6a to junction 14. The diversion for it is not published in the report.

One discrepancy is worth flagging. The scheme page says the M1 junction 8 exit slips close on Friday 18 and Monday 21 September alongside the A414 westbound. The closure report lists only the A414 westbound closure on the Friday, and on the Monday lists the A414 westbound plus the A414 southbound junction 8 exit slip. The report is revised twice a day on weekdays and the scheme page is not, so treat the report as the later word and expect junction 8 to be awkward on Monday night either way.

The A414 order: what it does, and where it sends you

The order is now made. National Highways advertised its intention in the Herts Advertiser on 27 August 2026, and published notice in the same paper on 10 September 2026 that it “has made” the order. The made version is titled the No.2 Order 2026 and it revokes the earlier Order 2026 No 0145 covering the same stretch. Its purpose is to allow “infrastructure works to Park Street Roundabout and a section of the A414” to be carried out in safety.

The terms did not change between the two notices. The order allows National Highways to:

• close the A414 eastbound from the point it diverges from the entry slip to the M1 southbound at junction 8, through to Park Street Roundabout
• close the A414 westbound from Park Street Roundabout to the point it merges with the exit slip from the M1 northbound at junction 8
• run those closures overnight, 8pm to 6am, and for full weekends, 8pm Friday to 6am Monday
• impose a 40mph limit for 24 hours a day: eastbound from 1,400m west of Park Street Roundabout up to the roundabout, and westbound for 500m from the western side of it
• impose a 2.4 metre vehicle width restriction at times in the offside lane, eastbound from 700m west of the roundabout and westbound for 500m from it

The order came into force on 11 September 2026 and may run until the works finish or for a maximum of 18 months, whichever comes first. The Public Notice Portal record gives an estimated end of 1 August 2027. Emergency service vehicles are exempt from the speed limit, and emergency, traffic officer, works and winter maintenance vehicles are exempt from the closures.

The eastbound diversion runs through the middle of St Albans. The published route leaves the M1 at junction 8 and takes the A414 Breakspear Way, the A4147 Leverstock Green Way, Hemel Hempstead Road, Bluehouse Hill, the A5183 Verulam Road, High Street and the A1081 London Road to London Colney Roundabout. That is Verulam Road and the High Street, every weekend, potentially into next summer.

Westbound traffic gets a choice of two. The first is that route in reverse, again through St Albans. The second goes the long way round via Watford: the A405 North Orbital Road, the A41 North Western Avenue from Leavesden Green, the A41 Watford Road, then the A414 Two Waters Way, St Albans Road and Breakspear Way.

National Highways has not published a scheme page for the Park Street Roundabout work, and the notice does not say what is being built. General enquiries go to a manager at Galldris Services, a civil engineering contractor based at Innova Park in Enfield, and the National Highways closure report describes the current A414 closures as “S278/bypass works on behalf of Galldris Group”. A section 278 agreement is the mechanism by which a developer pays for changes to the public highway. Which development is paying, and what the finished junction will look like, has not been published.

This is the week the order starts biting on weeknights. Until now the Galldris closures have been weekend work. The 18 September closure report books the A414 westbound from Park Street Roundabout to Breakspear Junction for three consecutive nights, Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 September, 8pm to 6am, under the same “S278/bypass works on behalf of Galldris Group” heading. That is a longer nightly window than the National Highways resurfacing used, because the order allows 8pm rather than 10pm.

The M1: one job ends, a bigger one starts

The overnight closures between junctions 6 and 8 are part of M1 junction 6a to junction 8 maintenance: resurfacing in both directions plus the A414 link road, at a cost of £4 million, running 20 July to October 2026. The scheme page still carries the update it was given on 10 September, and we checked it again on 18 September. It sets out:

• M1 northbound, junction 6 to junction 8: closed overnight 10pm to 5am, Monday to Thursday only, from 7 to 18 September and again from 5 to 20 October
• M1 junction 8 north and southbound exit slips, and the A414 westbound from Park Street to junction 8: closed overnight 10pm to 5am on Friday 11 September, Friday 18 September and Monday 21 September
• M1 junction 8 north and southbound entry slips, and the A414 eastbound junction 8 entry slip: closed overnight 10pm to 5am on Sunday 20 and Sunday 27 September

The northbound carriageway now gets a fortnight off. The slip road nights in between are the ones easy to miss, because they fall on a Friday, a Sunday and a Monday rather than in the Monday-to-Thursday block.

A second, separate motorway closure starts on 26 September, and it is not on that scheme page. National Highways has made an order under section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to close the M1 southbound between junction 6a and junction 5, along with every slip road on that length. Its notice, reference NH/SE/2026/M1/72, was published in the Watford Observer and says the work is surveys and resurfacing.

• it is expected to start on 26 September 2026 and last about two weeks
• all closures run 9pm to 6am
• the order came into force on 29 August 2026 for a maximum of eighteen months, ceasing when the works finish
• traffic already on the M1 is diverted anticlockwise on the M25 to junction 20, then east on the A41 to M1 junction 5
• traffic wanting to join the M1 at junction 6, the A405 turning, is sent south on the A405 to Leavesden Green roundabout and onto that same diversion

The two overlap in time, and they meet at junction 6. The southbound work is expected to run to about 10 October and the northbound resurfacing restarts on 5 October, so for roughly a week in early October the M1 has overnight closures on both sides of junction 6 on the same nights. They are adjacent stretches rather than the same one: the resurfacing runs north from junction 6, the new order runs south from junction 6a. Both diversions route drivers onto the A405.

The northbound diversion is long. Drivers leave the M1 at junction 6, run west on the A405 North Orbital Road, join Watford Road and then the A41 northbound, pick up the A414 eastbound and rejoin the M1 at junction 8. Anything northbound that misses junction 6 has to carry on to junction 9 and come back south to pick the diversion up.

A414 westbound traffic caught by the junction 8 slip nights is sent the same way: south on the A405 from Park Street Roundabout, Watford Road, then the A41 northbound to rejoin the A414.

Closures change daily. Check the current list on the National Highways road closure report, which is updated twice a day on weekdays, and Hertfordshire County Council’s roadworks map for county and utility works.

The local roads: a single order takes five of them for six months

Hertfordshire County Council advertises its temporary closures in the Herts Advertiser. The latest batch is dated 17 September 2026. Orders the council has made are fixed. Orders it intends to make are proposals, and can move or be dropped, so treat those dates as the earliest they can start.

The big one in the new batch is a single intended order covering five roads, and it is scheduled to take six months. It comes into effect on 7 October 2026, is valid for eighteen months, and the notice says the works are scheduled to take six months to complete. All five are closed to vehicles except for access. Three of them have no diversion at all.

The B653 closure is the one that will be felt furthest. Lower Luton Road is the direct road between Harpenden and Luton along the Lea valley, and the published diversion sends that traffic back through Harpenden itself, on the B652 Station Road and the A1081. Six months of it would be the longest closure the district has seen this year.

Downedge, Downes Road and Packhorse Close are residential and have no way round. Downedge runs off Batchwood Drive; Downes Road and Packhorse Close both run off The Ridgeway on the Marshalswick side. The notice says only that access will be maintained wherever possible. Queries go to Luca Kleovou at Ringway, the county’s highways contractor, on 0300 123 4047.

The same notice makes two shorter orders in the city, both for utility work:

• Dalton Street, from 21 September, 1 day. 54m from the southern boundary of No.15, diverted via the A4147 Catherine Street, the A1081 St Peters Street and Grange Street. The contractor is Morrison Telecoms.
• Drovers Way, from 22 September, 5 days. 40m starting 96m south west of Adelaide Street, with two published alternatives looping round Catherine Street, Etna Road, Stapley Road, Upton Avenue and Russell Avenue, or round Russell Avenue, Britton Avenue, Selby Avenue, Upton Avenue, Stapley Road, Worley Road and Gombards. The contractor is FM Conway.

Drovers Way is one of the two multi-storey car parks, so check before driving in. A second, separate order advertised on 10 September proposes another 10 days on the same road from 28 September, on a 25m length 67m south west of Adelaide Street, for electrical works.

A footpath in the city is shut for up to two months

One order in the new batch is already made and started today. Footpath St Albans City 042, between Butt Field View and Watling Street, is closed to pedestrians for approximately 280m from 18 September for up to two months, for highway maintenance. The published way round is along Butt Field View, Gillian Avenue and Watling Street. Queries go to the county’s Countryside and Rights of Way officer, Julien Thornton, on 01992 556187.

Still running from earlier batches

Two made orders that started on 7 September were scheduled to take 19 days, which takes them to about 26 September:

• Marford Road, Wheathampstead. The whole 1,310m between the B651 High Street and the B653 Cory Wright Way roundabout, with no waiting on either side. The published alternative is the B651 High Street and Station Road, then the B653.
• Barley Mow Lane, St Albans. A 220m length near Woodrake Lane, access only, diverted via Colney Heath Lane, the A414 North Orbital Road, Highfield Lane and Tyttenhanger Lane.

Marford Road takes out the direct link from Wheathampstead towards Welwyn Garden City, and it is the longest closure currently running in the district. Note that Conquerors Hill, in the new order, runs off Marford Road, so Wheathampstead is due a second closure on the same corner from 7 October.

The four short closures that started in the week of 14 September, on B652 Bower Heath Lane and East Common and Roundwood Lane in Harpenden, on Manor Road in St Albans and on the service road off St Albans Road in Sandridge, were all scheduled to take three to five days and were not re-advertised in the new batch.

These remain intended orders from the 10 September notice, so the dates can still move:

Chiswell Green Lane is the longest of those at 12 days. Its published alternative runs via Punchbowl Lane, Ragged Hall Lane and the B4630 Watford Road.

Just over the boundary in Hemel Hempstead, about eight miles west, the county council intends to close the A414 Breakspear Way/Green Lane roundabout and about 1,837m of Breakspear Way towards the Maylands Avenue roundabout for three nights from 28 September. That is the road St Albans drivers take into Hemel from M1 junction 8, and it is the same stretch the Park Street Roundabout closures already point at. Motorway traffic would be sent via the M1, the M25 and the A41, and local traffic through Green Lane, Boundary Way and Swallowdale Lane. The order was advertised in the Hemel Today batch of 9 September, not the Herts Advertiser.

The papers for all of these can be inspected free of charge at Farnham House in Stevenage, 9am to 5pm on weekdays.

The four roads that carry St Albans

St Albans has no bypass and no ring road, which means through traffic goes through it. Four routes do nearly all the work, and knowing which one is blocked tells you what your journey is about to become.

• M1, junctions 6 to 9. Junction 6 (M25), 6a, 7 (A414 to Hemel), 8 (A414 to St Albans) and 9 (A5183 for Redbourn and Harpenden). The A414 at junction 8 is the main road in and out of the district’s south west.
• M25, junctions 21a to 23. The southern edge of the district, and the route to Heathrow one way and the A1(M) the other.
• A414 and A405 North Orbital Road. The east-west route across the bottom of the city, linking the M1 at junction 8 to London Colney, the M25 and Hatfield. It carries the Park Street roundabout, which is the pinch point.
• A1081 and A5183. The old Roman roads. The A1081 runs Harpenden to St Albans to the M25; the A5183 Watling Street runs Redbourn to St Albans and out towards Radlett. Both go straight through the middle of St Albans on St Peters Street, Chequer Street, Verulam Road and High Street, which is why a closure on either of them has no easy diversion.

The council’s own temporary closure orders show how tightly wound that is. A Hertfordshire County Council order made in 2026 for works on the A5183 between the Batchwood Drive roundabout and Chequer Street, a stretch of about 1,263 metres, diverted traffic via Batchwood Drive and the A1081, and the matching order for the A4147 Catherine Street diverted it back the other way, onto the A5183. In central St Albans one route is always the diversion for the other.

The long-term change: the rail freight terminal

The largest construction site in the district is at Park Street, where the Strategic Rail Freight Interchange on the former Radlett aerodrome is being built out. It was granted permission by the government in July 2014 for 331,665 square metres of employment floorspace, and the Local Plan records that development has commenced and there is now “a reasonable prospect” it will be delivered within the plan period.

For drivers the relevant part is not the warehouses. The 2014 permission requires a Park Street and Frogmore relief road, along with country parks and a community forest, and the Local Plan’s Policy EMP2 states that all of those public benefits “must be delivered”. The site sits south of the North Orbital Road, north of the M25 and east of Frogmore, between the Abbey Line and the West Coast Main Line, so its construction traffic uses exactly the roads listed above.

Every council car park, and what it costs

The council runs twelve car parks in St Albans and more in Harpenden. Tariffs below are the council’s published charges, which rose on 1 January 2026 for off-street parking and on 6 April 2026 for on-street bays and permits.

Most of them share one tariff: £2.20 for an hour, £3.90 for two (£3.80 at Gombards), £4.70 for three, £6.20 for four, £9.50 for six and £17.50 for 24 hours, Monday to Saturday until 6.30pm, then a flat £2.00 from 6.30pm to 10pm any night, and £2.70 on Sundays and bank holidays. A week costs £55.00.

Two car parks break the pattern and both are worth knowing about.

Clarence Park is free for up to three hours on weekdays and free all day at weekends and on bank holidays. It has 31 spaces and opens 07:30 to 18:30. It is the cheapest legal parking near the city centre by a wide margin.

Westminster Lodge charges £1.50 for two hours, £3.20 for three and £5.90 for four, which undercuts the town centre tariff, and it has 325 spaces plus leisure centre member concessions. It requires a registration number when you take a ticket. It is the obvious choice for Verulamium Park, the leisure centre and the lake, and the Verulamium car park next door charges £2.80 for three hours against Westminster Lodge’s £3.20.

The council consulted in early 2026 on changing both: adding a four-hour tariff at Clarence Park at £5.90, dropping the five-hour, and raising the 24-hour charge to £16.30, while at Westminster Lodge introducing a £1.00 hour and raising the two-hour to £1.90. That consultation closed on 26 February 2026 and no decision had been published at the time of writing, so check the machine.

Coaches pay £31.50 for 24 hours at Verulamium and Westminster Lodge.

Parking practicalities

Drovers Way and Russell Avenue are now ticketless and cashless. New machines mean no paper ticket on arrival and card or mobile payment only, at the machine or at the barrier on the way out. If you carry cash, use a surface car park instead.

The lifts at Drovers Way and Russell Avenue only run from 8am to 6pm, every day. Outside those hours there is no lift access in either multi-storey, which the council flags specifically for anyone who needs step-free access.

PayByPhone works in all council car parks. Every surface car park has a location code on the sign; Adelaide Street is 802739, Gombards 802741, Verulamium 802745 for cars and 802746 for coaches.

Getting there without driving

Thameslink is cut back this weekend, and St Albans City loses trains both days. Engineering work between Luton and Kentish Town / London Blackfriars closes some lines on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 September. National Rail lists the effect as:

• Saturday: trains that normally run Luton to Rainham will only run between Kentish Town and Rainham, so they do not serve St Albans City or Harpenden at all
• Saturday: trains that normally run St Albans City to Sutton via Mitcham Junction will only run between London Blackfriars and Sutton
• Saturday: trains that normally run St Albans City to Sutton via Wimbledon will run from Luton to Sutton until about 8pm, then from St Albans City to Sutton for the rest of the day
• Sunday: trains that normally run Luton to Rainham will only run between Plumstead and Rainham, with tickets accepted on Southeastern between London and Plumstead
• Sunday: trains that normally run St Albans City to Sutton via Mitcham Junction will only run between London Blackfriars and Sutton

Three more pieces of work land in the fortnight after that:

• Monday 21 to Thursday 24 September: no late night Thameslink services to or from Sutton. From about 11.50pm each evening, Sutton trains will not run beyond London St Pancras International or Herne Hill. Paper tickets are accepted on London Buses.
• Saturday 26 into Sunday 27 September: buses replace trains between Mill Hill Broadway and Luton or Bedford from about 1.15am until 8.30am, which takes out the first Sunday trains from St Albans City.
• Wednesday 30 September: on the Abbey Line, the 22:45 Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey and the 23:08 St Albans Abbey to Watford Junction do not run. Replacement buses go instead, leaving Watford Junction at 22:45 and calling at Watford North 22:50, Garston 23:00, Bricket Wood 23:11, How Wood 23:17 and Park Street 23:23, reaching St Albans Abbey at 23:28; and leaving St Albans Abbey at 23:30 for Park Street 23:36, How Wood 23:42, Bricket Wood 23:48, Garston 23:59 and Watford North 00:09, reaching Watford Junction at 00:13.

For London the answer is still the train: St Albans City reaches St Pancras in 21 minutes and contactless costs £13.50 at peak times. Full times, fares and season ticket prices are on St Albans train times to London.

There is still no step-free access to the Thameslink platforms at St Pancras. The lift refurbishment started on 15 June. Thameslink’s notice says it runs to “mid-September”, and we checked it again on 18 September, when it still said mid-September and still gave no reopening day. Mid-September has now passed.

St Albans City sits in the stretch between Harpenden and West Hampstead Thameslink. For those stations, Thameslink’s published alternative is to travel to Farringdon and change there for Circle, Hammersmith and City or Metropolitan line services to King’s Cross St Pancras. A Thameslink ticket is accepted on the Underground between King’s Cross St Pancras and Farringdon, Finsbury Park or Blackfriars, and a London Terminals ticket is valid to Farringdon. The escalators and stairs to platforms A and B are unaffected, but the accessible toilet on platform B is out of service for the duration. Thameslink says extra staff are at St Pancras to help anyone who can manage stairs with support.

For Watford, the Abbey Line runs from St Albans Abbey to Watford Junction in 17 minutes, roughly hourly, for £3.80 off peak on contactless.

Hertfordshire County Council administers bus passes and concessionary travel, and Intalink publishes the timetables and maps. Thameslink and Great Northern give discounted local rail fares to holders of Hertfordshire concessionary bus permits.

The council also runs a taxi voucher scheme worth £5 a voucher, up to £90 a year for existing users, for residents who have a permanent disability or are over 75, have no access to a car and receive Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support.

Frequently asked questions

Is the M1 or the M25 closed near St Albans?

Not the main carriageway of the M1 next to St Albans this week. The northbound junction 6 to junction 8 block ended on Thursday 17 September and returns from 5 to 20 October. A separate order closes the M1 southbound between junction 6a and junction 5 overnight, 9pm to 6am, from 26 September for about two weeks. This week the M1 junction 8 entry slips closed on Sunday night and junction 9 to 11a closes on Wednesday night. The junction 6 exit slip and the M25 clockwise carriageway between junctions 19 and 21a were booked for Friday 18 September only, the junction 6 slip for urgent safety fence repairs. On the M25, the anti-clockwise carriageway between junctions 21a and 20 closes on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Check the road closure report before travelling, because the schedule moves.

How long is the A414 shut at Park Street?

The order was made on 10 September 2026 and National Highways expects the works to last until August 2027. It allows overnight closures from 8pm to 6am, full weekend closures from 8pm Friday to 6am Monday, and a 40mph limit that applies 24 hours a day on the approaches to Park Street Roundabout. It does not mean the road shuts every night. In the week from 18 September the westbound carriageway is booked for Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, and the three Tuesday-to-Thursday closures run from 8pm to 6am between Park Street Roundabout and Breakspear Junction. The published eastbound diversion runs through St Albans, along Verulam Road, the High Street and the A1081 London Road.

Where is the cheapest parking in St Albans?

Clarence Park, which is free for up to three hours Monday to Friday and free all day on Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays. After that, Westminster Lodge at £1.50 for two hours. In the town centre proper every council car park charges £2.20 for the first hour.

How much is all-day parking in St Albans?

£17.50 for up to 24 hours in almost every council car park, or £15.50 at Clarence Park. A seven-day ticket is £55.00. Evening parking from 6.30pm to 10pm is £2.00.

Can I pay cash at St Albans car parks?

Not at Drovers Way or Russell Avenue, the two multi-storeys, which are now cashless and ticketless. Surface car park machines take coins, but they give no change.

Where do I check Hertfordshire roadworks?

Hertfordshire County Council publishes a map of current roadworks; motorway and trunk road closures are on the National Highways closure report. Statutory temporary closure notices are published in the Herts Advertiser.

Is there a park and ride in St Albans?

The council’s public transport page lists buses, trains and community transport but no park and ride site. For a day in London the cheapest approach is usually to walk, cycle or bus to St Albans City station rather than park in town first.

Sources

• National Highways 7-day road closure report, the spreadsheet published at 15:30 on 18 September 2026 covering Friday 18 to Thursday 24 September, for every motorway and trunk road closure listed above, its times, its scheme description and the absence of anything local on Saturday night.
• National Highways: M1 junction 6a to junction 8 maintenance, scheme page updated 10 September 2026 and rechecked 18 September, for the £4 million cost, the 20 July to October 2026 programme, the 7 to 18 September and 5 to 20 October northbound blocks, the junction 8 slip road nights and the diversion routes.
• National Highways notice of the made M1 junctions 6a to 5 order, reference NH/SE/2026/M1/72, published in the Watford Observer and carried on the Public Notice Portal, for the southbound overnight closure from 26 September, the 9pm to 6am hours, the two-week estimate, the 29 August start of the order and both diversion routes.
• National Highways notice of the made A414 order, The A414 Trunk Road (M1 Junction 8, Hemel Hempstead to Park Street Roundabout, St Albans) (Temporary Restriction and Prohibition of Traffic) No.2 Order 2026, published in the Herts Advertiser on 10 September 2026, for the closure times, the 40mph limit, the width restriction, both diversion routes, the 11 September start, the revocation of Order 2026 No 0145 and the expected end in August 2027.
• National Highways notice of intended order, published in the Herts Advertiser on 27 August 2026, for the earlier “intends to make” wording and for the fact that the terms did not change between the two notices.
• Hertfordshire County Council temporary closure notice dated 17 September 2026, published in the Herts Advertiser, for the Footpath St Albans City 042 closure, the five-road intended order from 7 October with its six-month schedule and its alternative routes, and the made Dalton Street and Drovers Way orders.
• Hertfordshire County Council temporary traffic regulation notices dated 27 August 2026, 3 September 2026 and 10 September 2026, published in the Herts Advertiser, for the Marford Road and Barley Mow Lane orders still running, the September short closures and the intended orders listed above.
• Hertfordshire County Council traffic notices for Tring, Hemel Hempstead and Berkhamsted, dated 9 September 2026 and published in Hemel Today, for the proposed A414 Breakspear Way closures from 28 September.
• National Rail engineering work notices, checked 18 September 2026, for the rail closures: Luton and Kentish Town, 19 and 20 September, Thameslink to Sutton, 21 to 24 September, Mill Hill Broadway to Bedford, 26 and 27 September and Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey, 30 September.
• Thameslink St Pancras International lift refurbishment notice, checked 18 September 2026, for the 15 June to mid-September lift work, the Farringdon alternative for stations from Harpenden southwards, the Underground and London Terminals ticket acceptance and the platform B accessible toilet.
• St Albans City and District Council: car parks and on-street pay and display for every car park’s capacity, opening hours, tariffs and PayByPhone codes.
• Hertfordshire County Council roadworks and road closures for county and utility works.
• St Albans Local Plan 2041 Main Modifications, Policy EMP2 (PDF) for the Strategic Rail Freight Interchange floorspace, the relief road requirement and the site’s location.
• St Albans City and District Council public and community transport for bus, rail concession and taxi voucher information.

Checked and updated on 18 September 2026. Roadworks and tariffs change without much notice. Check the linked sources before you set off. Train times and fares are on St Albans trains to London; what is being built along these roads is on St Albans planning news.