East Finchley Underground Station
East Finchley is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Barnet . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 3 on Finchley High Road. In 2013, 6.56 million passengers used this station served by the Northern Line .
The station system that exists today dates from the 1930s and was built as part of the Northern Heights project, but it had previously been a station on a suburban railway line for more than seventy years .
building
Like the other stations that Charles Holden designed in the Art Deco style for the London Underground in the 1930s , East Finchley set new standards in architectural design. The imposing station building, built on a small hill next to the railway bridge over Finchley High Road, has two entrances. The main entrance is in the southeast on the main street. There is a second, smaller entrance on The Causeway to the northwest . It is possible to cross the station from one end to the other without entering the platforms.
The station buildings are built in such a way that they remind of a ship. Above the entrance, like a figurehead , there is a three-meter-high statue of an archer , created by the sculptor Eric Aumonier. The archer kneels and seems to want to shoot an arrow in the direction of the city center. The local newspaper The Archer is named after the archer, who is supposed to remind you of the former royal hunting grounds in the nearby forest of Enfield .
The station has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1987 .
history
The station was opened on August 22, 1867 by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EH&LR) together with the single-track line Finsbury Park - Edgware . In July 1867, just before opening, the larger Great Northern Railway (GNR) took over EH&LR. At the beginning the station was called East End, Finchley , in 1886 it got its current name. With the Railways Act 1921 , all railway companies in the country were combined into four large companies, the GNR in 1923 in the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).
As part of the “Northern Heights” project, it was planned to integrate the rail lines to Edgware and High Barnet into the subway network. East Finchley station was demolished, rebuilt from scratch and equipped with an additional platform. The intention was that the Northern Line trains should reach East Finchley from the south on two different routes; on the one hand via the existing LNER tracks to Highgate and Finsbury Park , on the other hand by means of a newly constructed tunnel under Highgate through to Archway and further towards the city center.
The underground service began on July 3, 1939. The LNER trains last ran on March 2, 1941. Because of the Second World War , not all parts of the expansion project could be completed as planned, so the route between Highgate and Finsbury Park was not transferred to the subway. The inner tracks are now only used for trains that end in East Finchley or for entry and exit trips to the Highgate workshop southeast of the station.
Web links
- Photo of the station building before the renovation (1935)
- View of the station building with the archer statue (1942)
- View of the second entrance (1942)
- Photo of the platforms (1942)
- Eric Aumonier works on the archer statue (1940)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
- ^ East Finchley station including platforms. (No longer available online.) In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, archived from the original on June 21, 2014 ; accessed on January 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Northern Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 17, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 14.1 ″ N , 0 ° 9 ′ 53.9 ″ W.