EPW015982 ENGLAND (1926). Edgware Railway Station, Edgware, 1926. This image has been produced from a copy-negative.

This is the station at the end of the former Edgeware, Highgate and London Railway and Great Northern Railway branch line, and was opened in 1867 from a junction at what is now Finsbury Park on the Kings Cross line. There was also a branch to High Barnet opened in 1872. In the 1930s work started to link the Northern Tube line to this railway, but WW2 delayed this happening - High Barnet got its tube service in 1940, and the Edgeware section was electrified to Mill Hill East to serve Mill Hill Barracks by 1941. Steam passenger services between Edgeware and Mill Hill East were replaced by a bus service. Goods trains from what was the LNER and then BR continued to operate to Edgeware until 1964. Soon after the track to Edgeware from Mill Hill East was lifted. (Information from "London's Local Railways", Chapter 3, by Alan A Jackson, published 1999 by Capital Transport, ISBN 1 85414 209 7)