Highgate
The lower concourse at Highgate station, LU Northern Line, deep beneath the abandoned surface station, on the afternoon of Saturday, 30th April 2022. Passageways lead left and right to the lengthy platforms. Built as part of the only partially completed LPTB 1935 New Works scheme for the Northern Line, trains were extended from what is now Archway station to a connection with the LNER at East Finchley on 3rd July 1939 but Highgate station was not ready on that date and had to wait until 17th January 1941 before receiving its first passengers. However, it had been been opened up for use as an air raid shelter from 3rd October 1940 as the London Blitz of World War Two intensified. Tube trains were extended over former steam tracks from East Finchley to High Barnet on 14th April 1940 and from Finchley Central (renamed from Finchley (Church End) to Mill Hill East on 18th May 1941 and that was all that was completed. The rebuilt surface station at Highgate, which would have seen tube trains between Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace, still stands, crumbling away, although steam trains continued to run to Alexandra Palace until 1954.
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 London Underground stations 2010-2023
Date: 30/04/2022
Image number: 80927
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