High Barnet tube station

LocationChipping BarnetLocal authorityLondon Borough of BarnetManaged byLondon UndergroundNumber of platforms3AccessibleYes^[1]Fare zone5London Underground annual entry and exit2018 4.02 million^[2]2019 4.05 million^[3]2020 2.03 million^[4]2021 1.83 million^[5]2022 3.17 million^[6]Key dates1 April 1872Opened (GNR)14 April 1940Started (Northern line)1941Ended (LNER)1 October 1962Goods yard closed^[7]Other informationExternal links

• TfL station info page

Coordinates51°39′02″N 0°11′39″W / 51.6505°N 0.1941°W / 51.6505; -0.1941 London transport portal

High Barnet is a London Underground station, and former railway station, located in Chipping Barnet, North London. The station is the northern terminus of the High Barnet branch of the Northern line and is in Travelcard Zone 5. It is situated 10.2 miles (16.4 km) north north-west of Charing Cross. The next station south is Totteridge & Whetstone.

Services

Northern line trains are scheduled to arrive and depart every 3–9 minutes from the station's three southbound platforms, with trains operating to Morden via Bank or to Kennington, Battersea Power Station or Morden via Charing Cross.

On days when Night Tube service is not running, between about 00:00 and 01:00, departing trains run as far as East Finchley only, from where journeys to central London can be continued by night bus N20, which also serves High Barnet station itself.

When trains are no longer required to run on the Northern line, they may be stabled on the sidings to the east of the station.

Connections

London Buses routes 34, 107, 184, 234, 263, 307, 326, 383, 384, 389, school routes 606, 626, 634 and night route N20 serve the station.^[8]

History

High Barnet station was planned by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EH&LR) and was originally opened on 1 April 1872 by the Great Northern Railway (which had taken over the EH&LR)^[9] on the original site of the Barnet Faire. It was the terminus of the branch of a line that ran from Finsbury Park to Edgware via Highgate.

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 section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchley was incorporated into the London Underground network through the "Northern Heights" project begun in the late 1930s. High Barnet station was first served by Northern line trains on 14 April 1940^[10] and, after a period where the station was served by both operators, LNER services ended in 1941.^[9] British Railways (the successor to the LNER) freight trains continued to serve the station's goods yard until 1 October 1962, when it was closed.^[7]

The station still retains much of its original Victorian architectural character today, with numerous platform buildings dating from the pre-London Transport era.

In 2008, a new train crew accommodation block was constructed immediately to the south west of the station on part of the car park. This was opened on 31 January 2010.

Also, further improvements have been introduced: A new covered step-free entrance from the car park to platform one is now available, along with a ramp at the end of the platform connecting it to platforms two and three. There are also two accessible toilets now available. These works were fully completed in October 2009. Therefore, there is full step-free access coverage in the station, although a considerably steep path to the station still exists if approaching from the north and a steep approach from the road to station level from the south also remains.

Gallery

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  Northern entrance to High Barnet Station
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  A walkway around the end of the platform 1 track provides step-free access to platforms 2 and 3
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  Platforms 1 and 2 seen from the footbridge
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  Platform 2

See also

• Northern Line Embankment, High Barnet

References

External links

Stations

High Barnet branch	High Barnet Totteridge & Whetstone Woodside Park West Finchley Mill Hill East Finchley Central East Finchley Highgate Archway Tufnell Park Kentish Town Camden Town
Edgware branch	Edgware Burnt Oak Colindale Hendon Central Brent Cross Golders Green Hampstead Belsize Park Chalk Farm Camden Town
Charing Cross branch	Camden Town Mornington Crescent Euston Warren Street Goodge Street Tottenham Court Road Leicester Square Charing Cross Embankment Waterloo Kennington
Bank Branch	Camden Town Euston King's Cross St Pancras Angel Old Street Moorgate Bank London Bridge Borough Elephant & Castle ( 100m) Kennington
Morden branch	Kennington Oval Stockwell Clapham North Clapham Common Clapham South Balham Tooting Bec Tooting Broadway Colliers Wood South Wimbledon Morden
Battersea branch	Kennington Nine Elms Battersea Power Station

Rolling
stock

Current	1995 Stock
Former	1906 Stock 1938 Stock 1949 Stock 1956 Stock 1959 Stock 1962 Stock 1972 Stock Standard Stock

History

Former companies	City and South London Railway Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Edgware, Highgate and London Railway Underground Electric Railways Company of London
Former lines	Northern City Line
Former stations	City Road Essex Road Finsbury Park Highbury & Islington Drayton Park King William Street South Kentish Town
Abandoned plans	Northern Heights plan Aldenham depot Alexandra Palace Brockley Hill Bushey Heath Cranley Gardens Crouch End Elstree South Mill Hill Muswell Hill North End Stroud Green

Depots