Slideshow: LU Northern Line + 1938 and 1995 stock, 1973-2022

<h4><a href='/locations/M/Mill_Hill_East'>Mill Hill East</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware,_Highgate_and_London_Railway'>Edgware, Highgate and London Railway</a></small></p><p>Mill Hill East, with a train of LU 1938 stock on a Northern Line service, in May 1973. (See my photo, image no. 79713, for a view from the same point nearly half a century later in 2019 with a digital destination indicator and Orwellian cc tv camera, renewed roundel running-in board, replacement of the original wooden platform and a new fence too!) 1/87</p><p>01/05/1973<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/M/Morden'>Morden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross_to_Waterloo_and_Morden_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Charing Cross to Waterloo and Morden Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>From the moment the LUL Morden station opened on 13th September 1926, to the design of Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the London Underground's Chief Architect between the two world wars (the office block above was added in the 1960s) its forecourt became a bus terminus for several routes fanning out in all directions. In this view bus PVL 229, on route 118 to Brixton, hovers outside the station on 10th November 2012. 2/87</p><p>10/11/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

$<h4><a href='/locations/B/Balham'>Balham</a></h4><a href='/companies/W/West_End_of_London_and_Crystal_Palace_Railway'>West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway</a>LUL 1995 stock arriving at Balham station in south London with a Northern Line service to Morden, on 10th November 2012. Opened in 1926, this was the scene of a WWII disaster on 14th October 1940. Underground stations were used as air raid shelters and usually provided a safe environment but, on this occasion, a bomb landed on the pavement above causing a crater into which a bus crashed. The impact caused the northbound platform tunnel to collapse and the station was flooded from fractured water mains and sewers which flowed into the southbound platform tunnel, seen here. 66 shelterers were killed and 72 injured, closing the line between Trinity Road (renamed Tooting Bec in 1950) and Clapham Common. However, the damage was repaired fairly quickly and this section reopened on 12th January 1941. (NB: The Company caption is incorrect, it should be City & South London Railway (Morden Extension)). 5/8710/11/2012 <a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a>$

<h4><a href='/locations/G/Goodge_Street'>Goodge Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Goodge Street, LUL Northern Line, on 4th December 2012. This was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway on 22nd June 1907 as Tottenham Court Road and renamed Goodge Street when the CCEHR's Oxford Street station, one stop south, was renamed Tottenham Court Road in conjunction with the Central London Railway platforms where the two lines intersected. In 1924, the City & South London Railway was extended north to a connection with the CCEHR at Camden Town while, at the same time, the CCEHR was extended south from its original terminus at Charing Cross (now Embankment) to a connection with the CSLR at Kennington. The two combined lines were then known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when it was further renamed as the Northern Line. 6/87</p><p>04/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Hendon_Central'>Hendon Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Edgware Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock with a Northern Line service to Edgware arriving at Hendon Central station, on 19th December 2012. 8/87</p><p>19/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Warren_Street_CCEHR'>Warren Street [CCEHR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock on southbound Northern Line service to Kennington via Charing Cross arriving at Warren Street station on 19th December 2012. When the station opened on 22nd June 1907, it was called Euston Road but this lasted less than a year, being renamed Warren Street on 3rd May 1908. For many years the original name was kept hidden from view by advertising hoarding but this has now been removed to reveal the original, confusing some passengers, perhaps, into thinking it has two names! This station became an interchange with the Victoria Line when it was extended here from Highbury & Islington in December 1968. 9/87</p><p>19/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_North'>Clapham North</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Clapham North station, LUL Northern Line, on 13th April 2013. It was opened by the City & South London Railway on 3rd June 1900 as Clapham Road and was renamed Clapham North on 13th September 1926 when the line was extended from Clapham Common to its ultimate southern terminus at Morden. The line then became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until renamed Northern Line in 1937, notwithstanding that it has this lengthy section in south London! This station is one of only two surviving with a narrow island platform in a single tunnel, the other being Clapham Common, one stop south. The others, also on the Northern Line, at Euston (Bank branch) disappeared during the construction of the Victoria Line in the 1960s while that at Angel was completely rebuilt in 1992 which saw the replacement of the lifts with escalators and the closure of the original 1901 entrance on City Road, replaced by a modern and much more spacious ticket hall on Islington High Street. 11/87</p><p>13/04/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_Common'>Clapham Common</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Original sign at the entrance to Clapham Common station, Northern Line, on 20th May 2013. This opened in 1900 with the first extension of the City & South London Railway, the world's first deep-level tube line that had opened between King William Street and Stockwell in 1890. Not until 1926 was the line further extended south to Morden. The line then became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when the LPTB renamed it the Northern Line, notwithstanding that a lengthy section of the line is in SOUTH London, as here at Clapham Common. One of London Transport's little jokes that has persisted to the present day. 12/87</p><p>20/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/T/Tooting_Broadway'>Tooting Broadway</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross_to_Waterloo_and_Morden_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Charing Cross to Waterloo and Morden Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Tooting Broadway station, LUL Northern Line, on 18th June 2013. This opened on 13th September 1926 with the extension of the City & South London Railway from Clapham Common to Morden which was thenceforth known as the Morden-Edgware Line, until 1937 when the LPTB renamed it the Northern Line, even though this section is in south London. All the stations on the Morden extension were designed by Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the Underground's Chief Architect between the two World Wars, noted principally for his stations on the Cockfosters extension of the Piccadilly Line, especially Arnos Grove, and rebuilt stations in west London such as Sudbury Town on the former District Railway's Ealing & South Harrow Line, now part of the Piccadilly Line. 13/87</p><p>18/06/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/K/Kentish_Town_LUL'>Kentish Town [LUL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Kentish Town, LUL Northern Line, on 12th August 2015. This station was opened on the Highgate branch of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway on 22nd June 1907 and has a connection with the National Rail station on the Midland Main Line, out of view on the left. This is another of the many deep-level tube stations on the London Underground designed by Leslie W. Green who died in 1908 at the tragically early age of 34. 14/87</p><p>12/08/2015<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/G/Golders_Green'>Golders Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Golders Green station, LUL Northern Line, in pouring rain on 24th January 2016. The station is an interchange with local buses that gather on the forecourt. It was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway on 22nd June 1907, which was extended out to Edgware by 1924. After 1926, when the line also reached Morden in Surrey, it became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when it was renamed the Northern Line, notwithstanding that a long section of the line is in SOUTH London! Obviously one of London Transport's little jokes that remains to this day. 15/87</p><p>24/01/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/T/Totteridge_and_Whetstone'>Totteridge and Whetstone</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/High_Barnet_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>High Barnet Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock on a Northern Line service from High Barnet to Kennington via Charing Cross departing from Totteridge & Whetstone on 5th March 2016. This station was opened by the GNR on 1st April 1872 and transferred to the LPTB 68 years to the day later on 1st April 1940. For many years, despite being shown as Totteridge & Whetstone on the LU diagram, it was described simply as Totteridge on station nameboards but that has now been rectified. 16/87</p><p>05/03/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/A/Angel'>Angel</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Going down the first of two escalators at Angel station, LUL Northern Line, on 30th November 2018. This first of the escalators is now the longest on the London Underground, following the rebuilding of the station, replacement of the lifts with escalators and re-siting of the entrance from City Road to Islington High Street, in 1992. Prior to then, the longest escalator on the Underground had been at Leicester Square station (Northern and Piccadilly Lines). 17/87</p><p>30/11/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Borough'>Borough</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southwark_Subway'>London and Southwark Subway</a></small></p><p>The northbound platform at Borough station, LUL Northern Line, looking south, on 1st January 2019. This is one of the original stations on the world's first deep-level Underground, the City & South London Railway (originally to have been called the City of London & Southwark Subway) that opened on 18th December 1890. The station and line closed for two years between 1922 and 1924 to enable the tunnels to be enlarged (with replacement bus services running) and at the same time, the line was connected to the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, opened on 22nd June 1906, at Camden Town in the north and at Kennington in the south. When reopened in 1924, the combined line became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when somebody at the LPTB decided to rename it the Northern Line, notwithstanding that a large portion of the route lies in SOUTH London! Obviously one of London Transport's little jokes which has remained to the present day. 18/87</p><p>01/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Borough'>Borough</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southwark_Subway'>London and Southwark Subway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock on a Northern Line service to Edgware via Bank arriving at Borough station, on 1st January 2019. 19/87</p><p>01/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Borough'>Borough</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>View down the spiral staircase (with 102 steps) at Borough station, LUL Northern Line, on 1st January 2019. Only to be used in an emergency, on this occasion my friend also named David and I had no choice but to walk down as the lifts were out of action so that, in TfL's view, presumably constitutes an emergency. Although as it was just after 8.30 p.m. on New Year's Day, we were the only passengers using the station at that time. This is the most northerly of the stations of the original City & South London Railway that opened on 18th December 1890 between King William Street and Stockwell, another 'first' for London being the world's first deep-level underground line. (King William Street station was abandoned and replaced by Bank when the line was extended north to Moorgate on 24th February 1900 via new tunnels diverging from the original north of Borough station, however the old terminus served as an air raid shelter during World War Two.) 20/87</p><p>01/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Borough'>Borough</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock train on a Northern Line service to Morden via Bank calling at the soutbound platform at Borough station, looking back north, on 1st January 2019. 21/87</p><p>01/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Borough'>Borough</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southwark_Subway'>London and Southwark Subway</a></small></p><p>Foot of the spiral staircase at Borough station, LUL Northern Line, on 1st January 2019. For the view from the top of the stairway see image <a href='/img/68/650/index.html'>68650</a>. 22/87</p><p>01/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/A/Archway'>Archway</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock on Northern Line train to Morden via Bank calling at Archway station on 5th January 2019. 23/87</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/M/Mornington_Crescent'>Mornington Crescent</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Mornington Crescent station, now part of LUL Northern Line, opened on 22nd June 1907 and one of many 'tube' stations designed by Leslie W. Green, the London Underground's Chief Architect of the Edwardian period who died in 1908 aged only 34, on 5th January 2019. 25/87</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Highgate'>Highgate</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Highgate_Link_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Highgate Link (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>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. 31/87</p><p>14/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/F/Finchley_Central'>Finchley Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware,_Highgate_and_London_Railway'>Edgware, Highgate and London Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock on a Northern Line service to Kennington (via Charing Cross) arriving at Finchley Central station, on the glorious afternoon of Saturday, 14th September 2019. This station was opened as part of the Edgware, Highgate & London Railway on 22nd July 1867 as Finchley & Hendon and renamed Finchley (Church End) sometime in 1870. It became Finchley Central on 1st April 1940 when Northern Line tube trains were extended over newly-electrified ex-LNER tracks to High Barnet. 36/87</p><p>14/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Colindale'>Colindale</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Edgware Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Colindale station, originally opened on 18th August 1924 on the Edgware branch of what became the Northern Line in 1937, on 14th September 2019. According to an item in the October 2019 issue of 'Today's Railways' magazine, Barnet Council has approved a Â£22 million rebuild of the station with work expected to start in 2021 and be completed in 2022. But as with Crossrail, it would be wise not to hold your breath. 37/87</p><p>14/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Charing_Cross_CCE_and_HR'>Charing Cross [CCE and HR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock on Northern Line service to Edgware departing north from Charing Cross station, on 7th March 2020. This station was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway as Charing Cross in 1907, renamed Strand in 1915 and reverted back to Charing Cross in 1979. 39/87</p><p>07/03/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Brent_Cross'>Brent Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Edgware Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Brent Cross, LUL Northern Line, looking north towards Edgware on 26th August 2020. On the left is the formation of the former loop (with a similar one on the southbound side) which in early days allowed semi-fast trains to overtake here. These semi-fasts ceased around the time the LPTB was formed in 1933 and the tracks were removed. Highfield Avenue bridge immediately south of the station still demonstrates the wider line at this location but then narrows down to a two-track railway. 40/87</p><p>26/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Belsize_Park'>Belsize Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>View from LUL 1995 stock train on a Northern Line service to Morden via Bank, calling at Belsize Park station on the Edgware branch, on 26th August 2020. An announcement made here informed passengers that the next station at Chalk Farm is currently still closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. 42/87</p><p>26/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Hampstead'>Hampstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock with a Northern Line service to Kennington via Charing Cross calling at Hampstead on 26th August 2020. When the railway was being built this station was to be called Heath Street, and this was painted on the walls, but by the time it opened on 22nd June 1907 its name had been changed to Hampstead instead. For many years the originally-intended name was covered-up by hoardings but these have now been removed. Other Underground stations which did open with their intended names but were later renamed have similarly been treated, e.g. at Arsenal on the Piccadilly Line, the original name Gillespie Road which it bore from its opening in 1906 until 1932 has now been uncovered, and at Warren Street (Northern Line), which for less than a year between its opening in June 1907 and May 1908 was called Euston Road. (See my pics of Warren Street also published by Railscot.) 43/87</p><p>26/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/E/East_Finchley'>East Finchley</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware,_Highgate_and_London_Railway'>Edgware, Highgate and London Railway</a></small></p><p>East Finchley station, looking north, on 1st April 2021, the 81st Anniversary of the extension of Northern Line tube trains from here over ex-GNR/LNER tracks to High Barnet. The station was originally opened by the Edgware, Highgate & London Railway in 1867 and was rebuilt in 1939 for tube trains which arrived here that year via a new extension from what is now Archway station that comes steeply to the surface just south of East Finchley. Only the outer edges of the two island platforms are used; had the Northern Line extensions been fully completed, the centre platforms would be used by peak hour services from Finsbury Park to High Barnet and Bushey Heath but the tracks now lead only as far as Highgate depot. 46/87</p><p>01/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/High_Barnet'>High Barnet</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/High_Barnet_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>High Barnet Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of High Barnet station, LUL Northern Line, with the original GNR building in the background, on 24th April 2021. Passengers disembarking at this terminus are confronted with a steep climb up a footpath and even then the climb is not over as the gradient is just as steep along the street into the town centre. 48/87</p><p>24/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Finchley'>West Finchley</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/High_Barnet_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>High Barnet Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>LU 1995 stock with a Northern Line service from High Barnet to Kennington via Charing Cross arriving at West Finchley on 24th April 2021. The line is now part of the London Underground but was opened by the GNR on 1st April 1872, although this station was an afterthought, opening on 1st March 1933 under the LNER. It retains its halt-like buildings and was first served by tube trains in 1940. The station serves the Nether Street area of Finchley and, when planned, locals were asked to suggest a name for the station and somebody came up with West Finchley. Personally, I don't see why it couldn't have been called Nether Street which is the main thoroughfare of this 1930s suburban development. 49/87</p><p>24/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Woodside_Park'>Woodside Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/High_Barnet_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>High Barnet Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Woodside Park station, now part of the LUL Northern Line but originally opened by the GNR on 1st April 1872, looking north towards High Barnet on 24th April 2021. The extension of tube trains from East Finchley to High Barnet on 1st April 1940 and from Finchley Central to Mill Hill East on 18th May 1941 were the only parts of the GNR Northern Heights lines to be successfully converted to London Underground tube trains operation as envisaged in the 1935 New Works Plan. 50/87</p><p>24/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/A/Angel'>Angel</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Original 1901 entrance to Angel station, Northern Line, seen from a TfL bus on route 43 (London Bridge to Friern Barnet) on 15th May 2021. The entire station was rebuilt in 1992 which saw the closure of this entrance on City Road and a more spacious replacement opened round the corner on Islington High Street. The lifts were replaced by escalators and Angel now has the longest escalator on the Underground; previously this was at Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly Lines). Angel's narrow island platform was replaced at the same time but examples of this type of platform in a single tunnel can still be seen at Clapham North and Clapham Common, also on the Northern Line - in SOUTH London! 52/87</p><p>15/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Chalk_Farm'>Chalk Farm</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1995 stock on a southbound Northern Line service to Kennington via Charing Cross at Chalk Farm on 5th June 2021. These large tiled station name wall signs can be seen at many deep level tube stations. For decades, they were covered up by advertising hoardings but that has happily now been removed to reveal them in all their glory. This is another station designed by Leslie W. Green, the London Underground's Chief Architect during the Edwardian era who was sadly only 34 when he died in 1908 but left a wonderful legacy of many splendid tube stations. 55/87</p><p>05/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Camden_Town'>Camden Town</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>East side exterior of Camden Town station on Kentish Town Road on 22nd June 2021, the 114th Anniversary of its opening with the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway on 22nd June 1907 and which now forms part of the much-extended Northern Line. This side of the station is now used for entry only, passengers leaving by the west side on Camden High Street. 58/87</p><p>22/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Battersea_Power_Station_Northern_Line'>Battersea Power Station [Northern Line]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_Line_Extension_TfL'>Northern Line Extension [TfL]</a></small></p><p>First Day of passenger services to Battersea Power Station station, terminus of the new LU Northern Line branch from Kennington (here in south-west London), on Monday, 20th September 2021. 59/87</p><p>20/09/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/N/Nine_Elms_Northern_Line'>Nine Elms [Northern Line]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_Line_Extension_TfL'>Northern Line Extension [TfL]</a></small></p><p>A nice welcome from TfL staff at the new Nine Elms station on the LU Northern Line Battersea Power Station branch from Kennington, on the First Day of passenger services, Monday, 20th September 2021. 63/87</p><p>20/09/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/A/Angel'>Angel</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>The wide southbound platform at Angel, Northern Line, on 20th November 2021. But it wasn't always so as, when opened by the City & South London Railway in 1901 and for the next 91 years, it had a narrow island platform in a single tunnel. By the end of the 1980s this had become totally inadequate and the whole station was rebuilt, the new being unveiled in 1992. The northbound platform on the south side of the island was abolished and built over, while the southbound on the north side was retained, leaving a very wide southbound platform. A new tunnel for northbound trains was constructed, leaving and rejoining the 1901 track either side of Angel station, to accommodate a new northbound platform which is of normal width with new passageways driven through the former tunnel wall to connect them. The old entrance on City Road was abandoned and replaced by a new one on Islington High Street. The former CSLR platforms at Euston also included a single island platform which disappeared during the construction of the Victoria Line in the 1960s but two examples of how Angel once looked survive at Clapham North and Clapham Common on the southern section of the Northern Line. 67/87</p><p>20/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/A/Angel'>Angel</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>The 1992 entrance on Islington High Street to Angel station on the Northern Line, which replaced the original City & South London Railway entrance of 1901 on City Road which still stands (<a href='/img/77/20/index.html'>77020</a>), seen here on 20th November 2021. The entire station was rebuilt at the same time with escalators replacing lifts and, as a result, Angel now has the longest escalator on the London Underground (<a href='/img/68/747/index.html'>68747</a>), superseding that at Leicester Square. 68/87</p><p>21/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/K/Kennington'>Kennington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross_to_Waterloo_and_Morden_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Charing Cross to Waterloo and Morden Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>Part of the route diagram above the seats on LU 1995 stock trains currently in use on the Northern Line, shows a hatched line at Kennington, indicating that peak hour trains on the Charing Cross branch still run to and from Morden. Yet on the new full diagram displayed at all stations on the system, it shows the new Battersea Power Station branch, but does not include the hatched line, incorrectly indicating trains on the Charing Cross branch only run to and from Battersea Power Station (see my photo, image no. 79564.) This view was taken from a Battersea Power Station to Edgware service, that I boarded at Nine Elms, while calling at Kennington station, on the afternoon of New Year's Day, Saturday, 1st January 2022. 73/87</p><p>01/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/O/Old_Street_CSLR'>Old Street [CSLR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>View from pedestrian subway leading from the ex-GNCR platforms at Old Street station towards the Northern Line with the northbound platform visible in the background on 14th January 2022. These platforms opened as part of the City & South London Railway in 1901 with the extension from Moorgate Street (renamed Moorgate in 1924) to Angel. The GNCR platforms were opened in 1904. 76/87</p><p>14/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Bank_C_and_SLR'>Bank [C and SLR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Although the new southbound Northern Line platform at Bank station was opened to traffic on schedule on 16th May 2022, there is still more reconstruction work to be done improving facilities and better links to the Central, Waterloo & City and DLR lines as well as the District and Circle Lines via the connection to Monument station, as detailed in this poster on display at Bank station. 82/87</p><p>16/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/K/Kennington'>Kennington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southwark_Subway'>London and Southwark Subway</a></small></p><p>The City & South London Railway (originally to have been called the City of London & Southwark Subway) was the world's first underground electric railway opened on 18th December 1890 from King William Street (replaced by Bank in 1900) and Stockwell. Now part of the much-extended Northern Line, but here in south London, Kennington station survives largely unchanged, the only one of the original stations to do so and seen here on the afternoon of Wednesday, 30th November 2022. The dome is not for decorative purposes, though it could be, but houses the mechanism for the lifts from the ticket hall to the deep level platforms. Kennington became the junction for the Battersea Power Station branch of the Northern Line when this opened on 20th September 2021. 85/87</p><p>30/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

LU Northern Line + 1938 and 1995 stock, 1973-2022

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