Edgware railway station served the suburban town of Edgware, in north London, England. It was opened in 1867 and was in use as a passenger station by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) until 1939; it was then used as a goods yard until 1964. London Underground's Edgware tube station, which is served by the Northern line, is situated about to the north-east.
History
The station was built as the northern terminus of the single track Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (E&HLR) and was opened on 22 August 1867 by the Great Northern Railway (GNR), which had taken over the EH&LR, in what was then rural Middlesex.
The line ran from to Edgware via Highgate. At opening, the previous station on the line was . In 1906, opened between them.
At first, services ran from Edgware to Finsbury Park, and to Ludgate Hill, and , via Snow Hill tunnel, on the south of the Thames. After 1869, trains terminated at . Services could also run from Finsbury Park via the North London Railway to after the -Finsbury Park link opened in 1875; fourteen trains per day ran from Edgware to King's Cross.
In 1923, the line became part of the LNER after the Railways Act 1921 created the Big Four railway companies. In 1924, the London Underground's Hampstead Tube was extended north from to its own station north of the LNER's.
In 1935, the London Passenger Transport Board planned to take over the LNER's Edgware, High Barnet and Alexandra Palace branches as part of the Northern Heights part of the New Works Programme. The track would be electrified and modernised for use, with electric trains and amalgamated with the London Underground's -Edgware line to form what is now the Northern line. The integration of the line meant the closure of Edgware railway station and the connection of its track to the Underground station, which was to be expanded to take the additional traffic.
Works began in the late 1930s and were at an advanced stage when they were interrupted and halted by the Second World War. The section of line between and Edgware was closed to passenger services on 11 September 1939.
After the war, a shortage of funds and the introduction of the Metropolitan Green Belt led to the cancellation of the unfinished Northern line elements of the New Works Programme in 1950. The goods yard at Edgware continued to operate with British Rail trains running from Finsbury Park until 1 June 1964, when it was completely closed. Afterwards, the track was removed, and the platforms and station buildings were demolished.
The site today The site of Edgware railway station is now occupied by a shopping centre, The Broadwalk Centre. Alongside part of the centre's car park runs a small stretch of the former trackbed, leading to the extant bridge over the Northern line tracks into the Underground station.
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