Edgware tube station

Edgware station stands on Station Road in the London Borough of Barnet, a short walk from the Edgware High Street. The building sits back from the road behind a circular service road for cars to drop off passengers. A footpath leads from the station to the Broadwalk Centre and its car parks. The next Underground stop south is Burnt Oak, and the line ends here at the northern terminus. The station opened in 1924 as the new northern end of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway. The 1935 New Works Programme planned to extend the line five kilometres to Bushey Heath with three new stations. The scheme also aimed to link the Underground to nearby LNER tracks, creating three possible routes to central London. Work began in the late 1930s but stopped when war broke out. The Metropolitan Green Belt later prevented the housing growth that would have supported the extension. A 1946 accident at the buffers injured no passengers but killed the driver. The station has three platforms under a trainshed, with an island platform and a single platform to the east. Modern lifts now give step-free access to the platforms. The Broadwalk Centre is a short walk away, and many bus routes serve the station and bus garage. The original 1924 building and the island platform can still be seen in historic photographs.