Mill Hill (The Hale) railway station
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 Mill Hill (The Hale)
Location of Mill Hill (The Hale) in Greater London
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| Location | Mill Hill |
| Local authority | Barnet |
| Owner | Great Northern Railway |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
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| 1906 | Opened |
| 1939 | Closed |
| Replaced by | Mill Hill Broadway |
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| WGS84 | 51°36′45″N 0°14′56″W / 51.6124°N 0.2488°WCoordinates: 51°36′45″N 0°14′56″W / 51.6124°N 0.2488°W |
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Mill Hill (The Hale) railway station was a station in Mill Hill, London NW7 on the now-removed railway between Mill Hill East station and Edgware railway station. It was located near the junction of Bunns Lane and Lyndhurst Avenue.
The railway line was built by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway 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 station, then named The Hale Halt, was not opened until 1906, on the single track from Finchley Central to Edgware. The whole line ran from Finsbury Park to Edgware via Highgate with branches to Alexandra Palace and High Barnet.
After the 1921 Railways Act created the Big Four railway companies, the line was, from 1923, part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). The station was named Mill Hill (The Hale) in 1928.
In 1935 London Underground devised a five-year "New Works Programme" of improvements, and planned to take over the line from the LNER in its "Northern Heights" plan. The line was to be modernised for use by electric trains on double track, and amalgamated with the Northern line.
Works began in the late 1930s and were at an advanced stage, when they were interrupted by the Second World War. The section of line between Finchley Central station and Edgware was closed to passenger services on 10 September 1939. The works on the section from Finchley Central to Mill Hill East were completed and opened for Underground trains in 1941, to allow access to and from the nearby army barracks. The train depot at Aldenham was completed and was used for making Halifax bombers during the war and becoming Aldenham bus overhaul works post-war.
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