Mill Hill East tube station

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Mill Hill East tube station

Mill Hill East tube station is a London Underground

London Underground

The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK....
station in Mill Hill

Mill Hill

Mill Hill is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. It is a suburb situated 8 miles north west of central London.Its postal address is London NW7, which covers a large geographical area - in fact it is the largest of all the London numbered postal districts....
in North London

North London

North London is the northern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
.

The station is on the High Barnet branch

Northern Line

The Northern line is a deep-level tube line on the London Underground, coloured black on the Tube map. It carries more passengers per year than any other Underground line; 206,734,000 passengers per annum....
, and is the terminus, and only station, of a branch from Finchley Central station

Finchley Central tube station

Finchley Central tube station is a London Underground station in the Church End Finchley area of Finchley, North London.The station is on the Northern Line#High Barnet branch of the Northern Line, between West Finchley tube station and East Finchley tube station stations and is the junction for the short branch to Mill Hill East tube statio...
. It is in Travelcard Zone 4

Travelcard Zone 4

Travelcard Zone 4 is the fourth outward zone of Transport for London's zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London....
and the least used station on the Northern Line with 0.784 million passengers a year. As of October 2006, service is a shuttle between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East, with the exception of peak services. Direct weekend trains were discontinued on 20 May 2007.

History
Mill Hill East station was built by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

The Edgware, Highgate and London Railway was a railway in north London. The railway was a precursor of parts of London Underground's Northern Line and was, in the 1930s the core of an ambitious expansion plan for that line which was thwarted by the World War II....
(EH&LR) and was opened as Mill Hill on 22 August 1867 by the Great Northern Railway

Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

The Great Northern Railway was a List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom established by the London & York Railway Act of 1846....
(GNR) (which had taken over the EH&LR) in rural Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex , from the Old English Middelseaxe , is one of the 39 Historic counties of England of England and the List of counties of England by area in 1831....
.

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Mill Hill East tube station is a London Underground

London Underground

The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK....
station in Mill Hill

Mill Hill

North London

North London is the northern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
.

The station is on the High Barnet branch

Northern Line

Finchley Central tube station

Travelcard Zone 4

History

Mill Hill East station was built by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

Middlesex

Middlesex , from the Old English Middelseaxe , is one of the 39 Historic counties of England of England and the List of counties of England by area in 1831....
. The station was on a line from Finsbury Park

Finsbury Park station

Finsbury Park Station is a busy transport interchange in North London. The interchange consists of an interconnected National Rail station, London Underground station and two bus stations....
to Edgware

Edgware

Edgware is a suburb of North London situated north-west of Charing Cross. It should not be confused with Edgware Road, some miles to the south....
via Highgate

Highgate

Highgate is a village in North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. Highgate rises to an altitude of at Highgate Wood and at North Hill....
.

The EH&LR was built as a single track with the intention of doubling the track when business developed. However, when the GNR opened a branch from Finchley Central to High Barnet in April 1872 traffic on that section was greater and the second track was never laid from Finchley Central to Edgware. For most of its history the service between those two stations was operated as a shuttle.

The station has had a number of names, including London Mill Hill and Mill Hill for Mill Hill Barracks. It was given its present name in 1928.

After the 1921 Railways Act

Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act of 1921, also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament by the British government of David Lloyd George intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition, and to retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from...
created the Big Four companies, the line was, from 1923, part of the London & North Eastern Railway

London and North Eastern Railway

The London and North Eastern Railway was the second-largest of the "Big Four British railway companies" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain....
(LNER). The section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchley

East Finchley tube station

East Finchley is a London Underground station in East Finchley in north London.The station is on the Northern Line#High Barnet branch of the Northern Line, between Highgate tube station and Finchley Central tube station stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 3....
was incorporated into the London Underground through the "Northern Heights

Northern Line

The Northern line is a deep-level tube line on the London Underground, coloured black on the Tube map. It carries more passengers per year than any other Underground line; 206,734,000 passengers per annum....
" project begun in the late 1930s.

In preparation for transfer to London Underground operation, track laying and electrification had begun on the whole of the line from Finsbury Park when Second World War

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
caused postponement of improvements. Passenger shuttle services on the Finchley Central to Edgware section ended on 11 September 1939 but, to provide quick rail access to Mill Hill Barracks, electrification of the short section between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East was completed although the track remained a single line. The station reopened on 18 May 1941. The work on the line from Mill Hill East to Edgware was left incomplete and after the war the proposal to electrify the line and incorporate it into the Underground system was abandoned.

Mill Hill East Buffer Stops Edgware No More

Regular passenger services never used the line beyond Mill Hill East again although it was operated by steam for freight until 1964 when it closed. The track and most of the infrastructure have been removed or destroyed but the alignment can be followed in some locations.

Today, Mill Hill East station retains its Victorian

Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....
architectural character and, as one of the two remaining original stations on the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (along with Finchley Central), it is one of the oldest parts of the Underground, pre-dating the first tunnelled section of the Northern Line (the City & South London Railway

City & South London Railway

The City & South London Railway was the first deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway in the world to use Railway electrification in Great Britain....
) by more than 20 years.

Onward Transport

The following London Buses

London Buses

London Buses is the subsidiary of Transport for London that manages bus services within Greater London, United Kingdom. Buses are required to carry similar red colour schemes and conform to the same fare scheme....
services serve the area (times are off-peak Mon to Friday):

221
London Buses route 221

London Buses route 221 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Arriva London....
(Edgware Bus Station-Turnpike Lane station) every 12 minutes
240
London Buses route 240

London Buses route 240 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. This service is currently contracted to Metroline....
(Edgware Bus Station-Golders Green station) every 12 minutes
382
London Buses route 382

London Buses route 382 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Arriva London....
(Southgate station-Mill Hill East station) every 15 minutes

External links

Mill Hill station in 1944.

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Abandoned Works

Former Services