Getting around in Harpenden - Transport through the Ages

Horses and horse-drawn vehicles.

Cycling and Commercial 'firsts'

Motor bikes, early cars and garages

Early cars, charabancs and buses

More buses, accidents, and service vehicles

Parking on the common, and bad parking around the town; Harpenden's first traffic wardens

Odd vehicles

Footpaths and cycle routes

Pride in Harpenden station and station-master's house. The start of electrification

The Great Northern railway at Harpenden East

The Nickey Line to Hemel Hempstead

The LMS - Harpenden mainline to St Pancras

John Marlow, Diana Parrott and Rosemary Ross found photos in the local history collection of Harpenden in the days of horse transport, horse-drawn delivery carts, early bicycles, motor-bikes, the first cars and the garages that sold and repaired them, motorised delivery vehicles, charabancs, coaches and buses, and of course the three railway lines serving Harpenden.  In addition there were panels on parking, traffic wardens, accidents, road maintenance and many unusual vehicles that have passed through.