Hendon Central tube station

Hendon Central is a London Underground station in north-west London. It stands on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Colindale and Brent Cross stations. The station sits on the boundary between London fare zones three and four. It opened on 19 November 1923 as part of the first stage of an extension to the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway. When the line reached Edgware on 18 August 1924, Hendon Central ceased to be the terminus. The station was designed by Stanley Heaps in a neo-Georgian style. It features a prominent portico with a Doric colonnade and is a Grade II listed building. The station faces a 240-foot circus intersected by four approach roads. William Passingham wrote in 1932 that the station’s design showed an outstanding example of road-planning with passenger station requirements. By then, new houses had already clustered around the station, forming the centre of a growing suburb. The area around Hendon Central was once rural fields south of the old village of Hendon. The station stands in a crossroads now controlled by traffic signals. London Buses routes 83, 113, 143, 186, 324 and 326 serve the station, along with night route N113. The station building was incorporated into a larger commercial building by 1929. Old photographs show the rural landscape beyond the station before development began.