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This article is about Edgware tube station in North London. For the two stations in Central London both called Edgware Road, see Edgware Road tube station (Bakerloo line) and Edgware Road tube station (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines).
"Edgware station" redirects here. For the closed main line station, see Edgware railway station.

Edgware London Underground
LocationEdgware
Local authorityLondon Borough of Barnet
Managed byLondon Underground
Number of platforms3
AccessibleYes[1]
Fare zone5
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019Increase 4.92 million[2]
2020Decrease 2.82 million[3]
2021Decrease 2.28 million[4]
2022Increase 3.93 million[5]
2023Increase 4.04 million[6]
Key dates
1924Opened (CCE&HR)
1 June 1964Goods yard closed[7]
Other information
External links
London transport portal

Edgware is a London Underground station in Edgware, in the London Borough of Barnet, in North London. The station is the terminus of the Edgware branch of the Northern line and the next station towards central London is Template:LUL stations. Edgware is in Travelcard Zone 5.

Location

The station is in Station Road, Edgware (part of the A5100). This road runs north-east from the High Street (A5), and the station is about 500 metres from the A5 on the right (south-east) side. The building is set back from the road, and there is a circular service road between the building and the road to allow cars to pull in and pick up or set down.

Just to the right of the station, viewed from Station Road, is a road to the bus station and bus garage.

History

The station was opened on 18 August 1924 as the terminus of the second phase of the Underground Group's extension of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway from Template:LUL stations. It was designed by architect Stanley Heaps. There are three platforms, an island lying east of a single platform (platform 1). A trainshed covers the island platforms (2 and 3).

Despite having already had a railway station since 1867 (Edgware station on the London and North Eastern Railway), Edgware was, in 1924, still very much a village in character. The new Underground station was built on the north edge of the village in open fields and, as intended, the new line stimulated rapid suburban expansion along its length. By the end of the decade, what had formerly been fields was quickly being covered with new housing.

The site of the station is very close to the location intended for the unbuilt Watford and Edgware Railway's (W&ER's) station, which was intended to be built on a branch from the existing single-track LNER branch before the terminus and run through to Watford Junction via Bushey.

New Works Programme

Planned Bushey Heath extension
Map of Edgware from 1930 showing the Underground station (top) and LNER station (bottom) with its branch line heading east.

In 1935 London Underground announced its New Works Programme. This had major implications for Edgware Underground station and the Morden-Edgware Line (as the Northern line was then known):

The powers to build a railway on this alignment had originally been obtained by the W&ER in the 19th century. The London Electric Railway had bought the W&ER in 1922 but had not previously used the right-of-way. The Underground's scheme modified the W&ER's plan to connect to the LNER branch by starting the extension from the Morden-Edgware Line station instead. The scheme involved the closure of the LNER station 200 metres south of the Underground station and retained the W&ER's connection to the LNER's single track line from where it passed over the Underground's tracks just to the east of the station and into new platforms to be built in the Underground station.

The new link at Edgware and others between LNER and Underground tracks near Template:LUL stations station and at Template:LUL stations would have made it theoretically possible to travel south from Edgware to central London via three routes:

Postponement and cancellation

How Edgware might have appeared on the London Underground Map today if the extensions to Bushey Heath and Mill Hill East had been constructed

Works to upgrade the existing LNER lines and construction on the new line to Bushey Heath began in the late 1930s but were halted by the outbreak of the Second World War. Additional platforms were started at Edgware and the LNER station and branch line was closed to passenger traffic in 1939 in preparation for the improvements. On the new extension, some earthworks and tunnelling had been undertaken and some structures had been constructed but no further work was done during the war.

The Metropolitan Green Belt was introduced to limit the outward expansion of London into the surrounding countryside. The area through which the new Bushey Heath extension was routed was designated as green belt meaning that the planned residential developments were prevented and the need for the stations serving them was removed.

Edgware LNER station was never reopened for passengers although freight traffic used the line until the 1960s. The improvements on the branch to Finchley were completed only between Mill Hill East and Finchley Central and only that short section was incorporated into the Northern line (as it had been renamed in the late 1930s). The completion of the plans were formally cancelled in 1950.

Accident

On 27 July 1946, an accident occurred at Edgware when the driver (James Lofting) of a northbound train suffered a heart attack while entering the station. The train did not stop within the area of the platform, and struck the buffers at approximately 5 mph. No passengers were seriously injured, but Lofting died as a result of his heart failure before he could be removed from the wreckage. It appeared from the condition of the controls that Lofting had disabled the deadman's handle while the train was still moving.[8] The circumstances of this accident were similar to those of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975.

Modernisation

During 2008-09, Tube Lines carried out work to modernise the station, including the fitting of lifts to enable step-free platform access, improved CCTV coverage and more help points.[9]

Connections

London Buses routes 32, 79, 107, 113, 142, 186, 204, 221, 240, 251, 288, 292, 303, 305 and 340 and night routes N5, N16 and N113 and non-TFL routes 614 and 644 serve the station and bus station.

See also

  • Platform 1 looking south, with trainshed to the left undergoing refurbishment, July 2008
    Platform 1 looking south, with trainshed to the left undergoing refurbishment, July 2008
  • Island platform 2 looking south, July 2008
    Island platform 2 looking south, July 2008
  • Island platform 3 looking north, July 2008
    Island platform 3 looking north, July 2008
  • Roundel on platform 1
    Roundel on platform 1

References

  1. ^ "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London. April 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  7. ^ Hardy, Brian, ed. (March 2011). "How it used to be - freight on The Underground 50 years ago". Underground News (591). London Underground Railway Society: 175–183. ISSN 0306-8617.
  8. ^ Mount, Lt Col A H L (17 October 1946). "Report on the Collision at Edgware" (PDF). Ministry of Transport. Retrieved 21 October 2008. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  9. ^ "Edgware station going up in the world". Rail Technology Magazine. 23 January 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
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