Trains to Tring

Tring station is 1.5 miles outside town, but what it lacks in convenience it makes up for in scenery, with a backdrop of open fields and woodland. It's an important commuter station too, connecting to London Euston as well as major interchanges such as Watford Junction and Clapham Junction. It was opened by the London and Birmingham Railway back in 1837, and had a brief visit from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their first journey out of Euston in 1944. Tring itself is a pleasant town with a 40-stall market on Fridays and a farmers' market on alternate Saturdays. It also has a brilliantly quirky Victorian museum in the shape of the Tring Natural History Museum, whose oddities include costumed fleas and a grinning polar bear. Between the station and the town you'll find the 35-acre grounds of Pendley Manor Hotel, which hosts the open-air Shakespeare Festival every July.