Mill Hill East tube station

Mill Hill East is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Barnet. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4 on Bittacy Hill. In 2007, 1.09 million passengers used the station which is served by the Northern Line and is one of the three northern end stations of this line.

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The subway runs here though only since the early 1940s, but the station was already more than seventy years earlier built as a breakpoint of a suburban railway. The station building still has many architectural features of the Victorian period. In addition to Finchley Central Mill Hill East is one of the oldest surviving parts of the London Underground. A special feature is that the station is only a single track.

History

The breakpoint was posted on August 22, 1867 by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway ( EH & LR ) together with the distance to Finsbury Park - opened in Edgware. In July 1867, shortly before the opening, took over the larger Great Northern Railway (GNR ), the EH & LR. The breakpoint was first called Mill Hill.

The EH & LR had been built single track, with the intention of adding a second track with an increasing volume of traffic. After the GNR had, however, opened the branch line between Finchley Central and High Barnet on April 1, 1872, this demand proved stronger than significant. For this reason, the second track was never built between Finchley Central and Edgware; Passengers had to change trains mostly in Finchley Central. The station was renamed several times and received in 1928 the still common names. With the Railways Act 1921, all railway companies in the country were combined into four major companies; the GNR went there in 1923 on the London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ).

As part of the Northern Heights project, the railways should be integrated according to Edgware and High Barnet in the metro network. In preparation for this began on the twisting track and electrification works. At the beginning of World War II they were already far advanced, then had to be stopped but. The LNER presented on September 11, 1939, the passenger traffic between Finchley Central and Edgware. However, in order to offer a fast connection to the barracks in Mill Hill, completed the electrification of one short section, but the route was single track. On May 18, 1941, the underground operation of the Northern Line began. The expansion work on the route between Mill Hill East and Edgware were left after the war because of money problems finally fall.

The section west of Mill Hill East has never been traveled by subway, but it reversed isolated with steam locomotives operated freight trains. In 1964 the permanent withdrawal of the remaining distance. The track and most of the infrastructure have since been removed or demolished, but the former route is still visible in places.