Mobile tyre fitting
in Brookmans Park.

A fitter at your car
in Brookmans Park.

Tyre trouble in Brookmans Park keeps to a timetable. Something collected on the morning run to the station holds air all day, and then the evening train gets in and the car will not move. The rest of it comes off the lanes towards Bell Bar, Swanley Bar and Water End, where there is little room to pass. Give the size from the sidewall with an AL9 or EN6 postcode, and say which of the two the car is sitting at, house or station.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Drives do the bulk of the work here and there are plenty of them. Where the car is at the station, the railway car park is usable in a bay, handbrake on and somebody present with the keys. A verge is no substitute: grass gives under a jack and the wheel comes back down. Out on the lanes to Swanley Bar and Bell Bar, the sensible move is getting the car onto a drive or a wide farm entrance the owner allows, rather than leaving it half on the road.

Callers here are mostly householders in the roads off the station and commuters standing next to a car that went down while they were in London. The village has no through trunk road of its own, which keeps the driveways quiet and makes them the obvious place to work: private ground needs permission from nobody. Brookmans Park Station Car Park is railway ground, and a wheel can come off in a marked bay provided you are with the car and the aisle stays clear. Hawkshead Farm, Cranborne, Bell Bar and Marshmoor are all reachable, as are the Welham Green streets a mile up the line. Being Welwyn Hatfield, the village carries no clean air charge whatever.