Woodside Park tube station

Woodside Park is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Barnet. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4 at the Woodside Park Road and is served by the Northern Line. In the year 2011 there were 2.69 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. Before the station building there is a wide open area that once served as a loading point for coal and was later converted into a parking lot. The main entrance is at the end of a short dead-end street that leads to the Woodside Park Road. Set into the front is a letter box with the initials VR ( Victoria Regina ); these are for Queen Victoria, who reigned at the time of the route opening. A secondary entrance is located on the west side of the station. Both platforms are connected by a pedestrian bridge to each other, which can also be used without a valid ticket. 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 Torrington Park, 1882 received the name still in use today and was rebuilt in 1889.

With the Railways Act in 1921 united all railway companies in the country to four large companies that GNR went there in 1923 in 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 14 April 1940. During the short time sailed both metro and railway route, the last train of LNER wrong in March 1941.