Edgware tube station

Edgware is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Barnet. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 5 at Station Road. In 2011, 4.37 million passengers used the station which is served by the Northern Line and is one of the three northern end stations of this line. Immediately there is a bus station next to the bus depot with an attached.

History

The opening of the station took place on 18 August 1924. Though about 200 meters to the south since 1867 was one of the London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ) station, Edgware had in 1924 still has a rural character. The new metro station was built at the northern edge of the open field. As intended, the new transport connection boosted construction activity. By the end of the decade, from Edgware is a suburb of London had become completely overbuilt. Architect of the station building was Stanley Heaps.

1935 presented the London Passenger Transport Board, the New Works programs. Various LNER railway lines in North London should ( the so-called Northern Heights lines) are taken over by London Underground and linked to the metro network. This also included the branch line between Finchley Central and Edgware. In addition, the existing subway line should be extended for another five kilometers to the north to a new maintenance workshop in the village of Aldenham in Hertfordshire. There were plans for three new stations: Brockley Hill, Elstree South and Bushey Heath.

The acquisition of the LNER branch line to Edgware required the closure of the station and a relocation of the single-track railway line over a short length. This connection would have theoretically possible to reach the city on three different routes from Edgware from:

• The existing metro line towards Golders Green and Camden Town
• The former LNER line to Highgate and then the underground line about Archway
• The former LNER line to Highgate and Finsbury Park and then the Northern City Line to Moorgate

The works to extend the existing LNER lines and work on the extension of the Northern Line to Bushey Heath began in the late 1930s. So they began with the construction of additional platforms in Edgware, concluded in 1939 the LNER station and put the passenger on the LNER branch line still. All the work was, however, discontinued after the outbreak of the Second World War.

After the war, the government created around London a 5 to 10 kilometer wide greenbelt to reduce the uncontrolled urban sprawl. In this zone, even those three stations that would be built north of Edgware were. Because now no more building activity more was to be expected, there was no need for the extension. The LNER station was never reopened for passenger traffic, but you took the route until 1964 for freight. The expansion work on the railway line to Finchley were only completed between stations Mill Hill East and Finchley Central.