Totteridge & Whetstone tube station

Totteridge & Whetstone is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Barnet. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4 at the Totteridge Lane and is served by the Northern Line. In the year 2011 there were 1.98 million passengers these of the Northern Line station.

Plant

Although the U -Bahn here only since the beginning of the 1940s, but the station was already more than seventy years earlier built as a breakpoint of a suburban railway. The western part of the station building is rented as a business office. East of the station is a dead end with a turning area for buses and a parking lot. Because of the down stairs leading to the platforms, the station is not wheelchair accessible. The architecture of the station building from the Victorian period has remained largely intact.

History

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

With the Railways Act in 1921 united all railway companies in the country to four large companies that GNR went there in 1923 the London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ) to. As part of the Northern Heights project, the railway line was integrated to High Barnet in the Underground network. The subway began operation on April 14, 1940 since the now common name is used. During the short time drove on both metro and railway route, the last train of LNER wrong in March 1941.