Highgate tube station

Highgate
Eastern entrance on Priory Gardens
Highgate Location of Highgate in Greater London
Location	Highgate
Local authority	London Borough of Haringey
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	4.76 million
2013	4.64 million
2014	5.04 million
2015	5.48 million
Key dates
1867	Opened (surface platforms)
1941	Opened (Northern line platforms)
1954	Closed (surface platforms)
1964	Closed (surface tracks to freight traffic)
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°34′40″N 0°08′45″W / 51.5777°N 0.1458°W / 51.5777; -0.1458Coordinates: 51°34′40″N 0°08′45″W / 51.5777°N 0.1458°W / 51.5777; -0.1458

Highgate is a London Underground station and former railway station in Archway Road, in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. The station takes its name from nearby Highgate Village. It is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between Archway and East Finchley stations and is in Travelcard Zone 3.

The station was originally opened in 1867 as part of the Great Northern Railway's line between Finsbury Park and Edgware stations. As part of their only partially completed Northern Heights plan, the London Underground started serving the station in 1941, using new platforms in tunnels beneath the surface station. The platforms of the surface station remain, but were last used in 1954, and the section of the line through them to Finsbury Park was lifted by 1972. One of the original 1867 station buildings still exists, and is in use as a private house.

Highgate station was originally constructed by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway in the 1860s on its line from Finsbury Park station to Edgware station. Before the line was opened it was purchased in July 1867 by the larger Great Northern Railway (GNR), whose main line from King's Cross ran through Finsbury Park on its way to Potters Bar and the north. The station opened along with the railway to Edgware on 22 August 1867.