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Station

Hendon

Station code: HEN National Rail
Opened on the London Extension (Midland Railway).

Nearby stations Welsh Harp Hendon Central Brent Cross Colindale Kingsbury Dudding Hill Cricklewood Neasden Burnt Oak Dollis Hill Wembley Park Wembley Stadium Mill Hill (The Hale) Queensbury [Met] Willesden Green [Met]	Hendon Tunnel Brent No 2 Junction Silkstream Junction Cricklewood Sidings Dudding Hill Junction Depot Neasden South Junction Brent North Junction Neasden North Junction Golders Green Neasden Junction Neasden Goods Wembley Park Junction Depot Tourist/other Brent Reservoir
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

27/07/1846	Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway Authorised to build line from Hendon to Pensher (now Penshaw).
01/06/1853	Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway New Hendon to Penshaw branch opened. Uses new terminus at Sunderland Fawcett Street.
01/05/1858	Durham and Sunderland Railway Hendon station built 880 yards south to the replace former Sunderland station which was on the Town Moor just west of the South Dock locomotive shed.
01/10/1868	Londonderry Railway Sunderland [LR] station (just south of Hendon station) closed and diverted to Hendon station.
/ /1879	Durham and Sunderland Railway Hendon station closed on opening of new Sunderland station.
/ /1879	Sunderland Station (North Eastern Railway) New line from Ryhope Grange Junction to new Sunderland central station and from Fawcett Street opened. Hendon and Fawcett Street stations closed. Line extended north to cross the River Wear to connect at Monkwearmouth. The new station had two island platforms with arched overall roof (which was destroyed in World War II).
/ /1959	British Railways Condor (CONtainers DOoR-to-door) overnight conflat container service introduced between Glasgow Gushetfaulds Goods and London Hendon.
/ /1965	British Railways Having been eclipsed by the Freightliner service, the Condor conflat container service ends. This ran between Glasgow Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal and London Hendon, and the Glasgow to Birmingham Aston.