Totteridge & Whetstone Undergrounds

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Totteridge & Whetstone is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Barnet . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 on Totteridge Lane and is served by the Northern Line . In 2013, 1.95 million passengers used this station served by the Northern Line.

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View of the platforms

The subway has only been running here since the early 1940s, but the station was built more than seventy years earlier as a stop for a suburban railway. The western part of the station building is rented as business premises. To the east of the station there is a dead end street with a turning area for buses and a parking lot. The station is not wheelchair accessible because of the stairs leading down to the platforms. The architecture of the station building from Victorian times has largely been preserved.

history

The plans for the station go back to the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EH&LR), which was taken over by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) in 1867 . The GNR opened the railway line between Finchley Central and High Barnet on April 1, 1872 , the station was initially called Whetstone and Totteridge .

With the Railways Act 1921 , all railway companies in the country were combined into four large companies, with the GNR merging with the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1923 . As part of the Northern Heights project, the railway line to High Barnet was integrated into the underground network. The metro began operating on April 14, 1940, and the name that is common today has been used ever since. Both the underground and the railroad ran on the route for a short time; the last LNER train ran in March 1941.

Web links

Commons : Totteridge & Whetstone (London Underground)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Northern Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 17, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '50 "  N , 0 ° 10' 45"  W.