From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brockley Hill tube station
Brockley Hill tube station
Brockley Hill
Location
Place Brockley Hill
Planned Bushey Heath extension of Northern Line
Local authority Hertsmere
History
Opened by Never Opened
Planned by London Underground
Platforms 2
Brockley Hill tube station is an unbuilt London Under-
ground station in the Brockley Hill area of north London.
The planned location was close to Edgwarebury Park and
the north side of the junction of the A41 (Watford Bypass)
and the A410 roads.
History
The station was the first of three planned by London Un-
derground in 1935 to extend the Northern Line from Edg-
ware to Bushey Heath. There was debate about the name
for the station, with Edgewarebury, North Edgware and All
Souls all being proposed. How Brockley Hill tube station would appear on the London
Underground Map today if the Northern Line extension from
The previous station was Edgware Underground sta-
Edgware to Bushey Heath and Mill Hill East was completed
tion. The next to the north-west would have been Elstree
South.
The extension was part of the Northern Heights project Construction on the Northern Heights project began
to electrify steam-operated London and North Eastern in the late 1930s but was interrupted by the Second
Railway (LNER) branch lines and incorporate them into World War. Most of the work to that date had been car-
the Northern Line. The powers to build the extension ried out on LNER branch tracks but some work between
came from the purchase in 1922 of the unbuilt Watford Edgware and Bushey Heath had taken place. The route
and Edgware Railway which had planned an extension of of the line had been laid out and some earthworks con-
the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway to Watford structed. On the site of Brockley Hill station construction
Junction via Bushey, but had never raised the capital re- of arches of a viaduct to carry the track over low ground
quired. had begun.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brockley Hill tube station
Abandoned Northern Heights Extension
Preceding station London Underground Following station
Elstree South Northern line Edgware
towards Bushey Heath towards Morden or Kennington
The sites of the new stations were semi-rural and, as
elsewhere, it was intended that the new section would
See also
stimulate the construction of housing estates that the • Bushey Heath tube station - planned terminus of the
stations would serve. After the war, new legislation lim- extension.
ited expansion of urban areas into the countryside. This • Edgware, Highgate and London Railway - LNER
created the Metropolitan Green Belt around London and branch line taken over by London Underground as
the area covered the Northern Line extension. Without part of the Northern Heights project
housing estates, the line had no purpose and the plans
were cancelled in 1950. Some consideration was given to
finishing the station at Brockley Hill, as it had some hous-
External links
ing and the site lay just within the green belt; the line be- • Map sources
yond to Bushey Heath would have been for access to the • Aerial Photograph from Multimap of station site
depot. Analysis showed the capacity needed without the • Northern Heights page on section of extension to
Bushey extension could be accommodated by developing Brockley Hill. Sadly, it never became a station and
LNER’s former Highgate depot, and the entire route was was never used at all.
abandoned.
The viaduct arches were partially demolished, leav-
ing stumps of brickwork in a field. Earthworks from the
References
station site parallel with the bypass indicate the route to • Beard, Tony, 2002. By Tube beyond Edgware. Capital
Elstree South. Transport, ISBN 1-85414-246-1
Recent development will see increased population, Coordinates: 51°37′27″N 0°17′12″W / 51.62421°N
the Stonegrove estate being redeveloped to double its 0.28666°W / 51.62421; -0.28666
housing density. Despite this, there are no plans to revive
the extension to the station to serve them so the arches
remain as a relic of the abandoned works.
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Categories:
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• Never constructed Northern Heights extension stations
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