Highgate
LUL 1995 stock on northbound Northern Line train at Highgate, looking north, destined for High Barnet but curtailed at Finchley Central, on 14th September 2019. This station is part of the completed 1935 New Works scheme to convert the LNER (ex-GNR) Northern Heights Lines to Northern Line tube train operation, most of which was held in abeyance at the start of WWII and never completed after 1945. Tube trains were extended from Archway to a junction with the Northern Heights Lines at East Finchley on 3rd July 1939 but Highgate station on this section did not open until 19th January 1941 although it was used as an air raid shelter from October 1940. It is situated deep below the site of the original GNR Highgate station of 1867 which was reconstructed for tube trains to Alexandra Palace but, in the event, this never materialised and the high level station closed in 1954. Thus Highgate station today is only partly complete.
Location: Highgate
Original line: Highgate Link (London Passenger Transport Board)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: LU Northern Line + 1938 and 1995 stock, 1973-2022
Date: 14/09/2019
Image number: 71525
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