Edgware railway station

Edgware
Edgware Highgate & London Railway, 1900
Location	Edgware
Owner	Great Northern Railway
Number of platforms	1
Key dates
1867	Opened
1939	Closed to passengers
1964	Closed to goods
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink

Edgware was a London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) station located on Station Road in Edgware, north London. It was opened in 1867 and was in use as a passenger station until 1939, then as a goods yard until 1964.

It is not to be confused with the London Underground's Edgware tube station, served by the Northern line, situated approximately 200 metres to the north-east of the site of the old Edgware railway station.

The station was built as the northern terminus of the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (E&HLR) and was opened on 22 August 1867 by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) (which had taken over the EH&LR) in what was then rural Middlesex. The line ran from Finsbury Park to Edgware via Highgate with branches to Alexandra Palace and High Barnet. The previous station on the line was Mill Hill (The Hale).

The line became part of the LNER in 1923 after the 1921 Railways Act created the Big Four railway companies.

In 1935, the London Passenger Transport Board planned to take over the line from LNER as part of the "Northern Heights" part of the "New Works Programme". The track would be modernised for use with electric trains and amalgamated with the London Underground's Morden-Edgware line to form what is now the Northern line. The integration of the line would have meant the closure of Edgware railway station and the diversion of its tracks into the Underground station, which would have been expanded to take the additional traffic. The line was also to be extended from Edgware to Bushey Heath in Hertfordshire with three new stations at Brockley Hill, Elstree South and Bushey Heath.