A small, charming city with thousands of years of history, St. Albans sits in London's greenbelt with excellent transport links and plenty of available serviced accommodation.
Within the city of St. Albans’ ‘unofficial’ boundaries, there are two railway stations to travel to-and-from. These are St. Albans Abbey station, which runs along the Abbey Line, and St. Albans City station which sits along the Midland Main Line.
Other train stations nearabouts St. Albans in the surrounding smaller villages include Park Street, How Wood and Bricket Wood.
St. Albans is excellently connected by its local bus network, served by three operating companies. As well as being accessible thanks to bus routes from North London, Luton, Watford and Hatfield, buses run also run extensively across the city and its outer borough.
Buses run from the city centre and the St. Albans railway station to areas across the district such as; Bernard’s Heath, Marshalswick, Jersey Farm, Fleetville, Cell Barnes, Tyttenhanger, Sopwell, St Julians, Cottonmill, Verulam Estate, Townsend and New Greens.
The fifth-busiest airport in the UK, London Luton is only a twenty-five minutes’ drive north of St. Albans, along the M1 and A1081. Travel to-and-from this airport can also be enabled via the airports own coach station and Luton Airport Parkway train station.
Alternatively, those travelling from St. Albans can fly from London Stansted (STN), London City (LCY) or London Heathrow (LHR) airports to east and south of the town. They are all between thirty and sixty minutes away by car. Airport taxi transfers can also be arranged from many of SITU’s St. Albans city apartments.
The nearest underground station is the Watford Underground station, a twenty-five minute drive away from St. Albans city centre.