Edgware (London Underground)
Edgware is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Barnet . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 5 on Station Road. In 2013, 4.09 million passengers used the station, which is served by the Northern Line and is one of the three northern terminus of this line. There is a bus station with an attached bus depot right next to the station .
history
The station opened on August 18, 1924. Although a station of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) had been a station of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) about 200 meters further south since 1867 , Edgware still had a village character in 1924. The new underground station was built on the northern edge of the village in an open field. As intended, the new transport link stimulated construction activity. By the end of the decade, Edgware had become a fully built-up suburb of London. The architect of the station building was Stanley Heaps .
In 1935 the London Passenger Transport Board presented the New Works Program . Various LNER railway lines in north London (the so-called Northern Heights lines) were to be taken over by London Underground and linked to the underground network. This included the branch line between Finchley Central and Edgware. In addition, the existing underground line was to be extended another five kilometers north to a new operating workshop near the village of Aldenham in Hertfordshire . Three new stations were planned: Brockley Hill, Elstree South and Bushey Heath.
The takeover of the LNER branch line to Edgware required the closure of the station and the relocation of the single-track railway line over a short length. This connection would theoretically have made it possible to reach the city center from Edgware on three different routes:
- the existing underground line towards Golders Green and Camden Town
- the former LNER line to Highgate and then the underground line via Archway
- the former LNER line to Highgate and Finsbury Park and then the Northern City Line to Moorgate
The expansion work on the existing LNER lines and the work on the extension of the Northern Line to Bushey Heath began in the late 1930s. So the construction of additional platforms in Edgware began, the LNER station was closed in 1939 and passenger traffic on the LNER branch line was shut down. However, all work was stopped after the outbreak of World War II .
After the war, the government created a 5 to 10 kilometer wide green belt around London to limit uncontrolled urban sprawl . The three stations that should have been built north of Edgware were also located in this zone. Since no further residential construction activity was to be expected, there was no need for an extension. The LNER station was never reopened for passenger traffic, but the line was used for freight traffic until 1964. The expansion work on the railway line to Finchley was only completed between the stations Mill Hill East and Finchley Central.
Web links
- Photo of the station location before construction began (1922)
- Photo of the station building (September 1924)
- Bird's-eye view of the station (1926)
- Photo of the counter hall (1927)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
- ^ Northern Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 16, 2013 .
- ^ Station name: Edgware (GN). Disused stations site record, August 17, 2012, accessed January 16, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c Northern Heights. Abandoned tube stations, accessed January 16, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 49.4 " N , 0 ° 16 ′ 29.4" W.