Edgware railway station was a London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) station in Station Road, Edgware, Greater London. It is not to be confused with the London Underground Northern line Edgware station approximately 200 metres to the north east.
The station was built as the northern terminus of the 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;) ...
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Edgware railway station was a London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) station in Station Road, Edgware, Greater London. It is not to be confused with the London Underground Northern line Edgware station approximately 200 metres to the north east.
The station was built as the northern terminus of the 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 Finsbury Park to Edgware via Highgate with branches to Alexandra Palace and High Barnet. The previous station on the line (actually it was only a Halt) was Mill Hill (The Hale).
The line became part of the LNER in 1923 after the 1921 Railways Act created the Big Four railway companies.
In 1935, London Underground planned to take over the line from LNER as part of the "Northern Heights" part of the "New Works Programme". The track would be modernised for use with electric trains and...
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