Woodside Park tube station
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  Woodside Park Location of Woodside Park in Greater London | |
| Location | Woodside Park |
| Local authority | London Borough of Barnet |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Fare zone | 4 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2011 |
 2.69 million[1] |
| 2012 |
 2.66 million[1] |
| 2013 |
2.63 million[1] |
| 2014 |
2.65 million[1] |
| Railway companies | |
| Original company | Edgware, Highgate and London Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| Key dates | |
| 1 April 1872 | Opened by EH&LR as Torrington Park[2] |
| 1 May 1872 | Renamed as Torrington Park, Woodside[2] |
| 1 May 1882 | Renamed as Woodside Park[2][3] |
| 14 April 1940 | Northern line services started |
| 3 March 1941 | LNER services ended |
| 1 October 1962 | Goods yard closed[4] |
| Other information | |
| Lists of stations | |
| London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°37′05″N 0°11′08″W / 51.6181°N 0.1856°W | |
Woodside Park is a London Underground station in Woodside Park, north London.
The station is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between West Finchley and Totteridge and Whetstone stations, and in Travelcard Zone 4. Woodside Park is the last station in an alphabetical list of London Underground stations.
History
Woodside Park station was planned by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EH&LR) and was originally opened as Torrington Park on 1 April 1872 by the Great Northern Railway[2] (which had taken over the EH&LR).[5] The station was on a branch of a line that ran from Finsbury Park to Edgware via Highgate. The station was renamed within a month of opening, and again in 1882.[2][3]
After the 1921 Railways Act created the Big Four railway companies the line was, from 1923, part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). The section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchley was incorporated into the London Underground network through the "Northern Heights" project begun in the late 1930s. The station was first served by Northern line trains on 14 April 1940[6] and, after a period where the station was serviced by both operators, LNER services ended in 1941.[5] The station still retains much of its original Victorian architectural character today.
Connections
London Buses route 383 serve the station.
Local information
The station has a large adjacent area, originally for storing coal and now used as a car park. Until about 2000, there was a second car park. A block of flats has now been built on this area.
The station is above ground. Both platforms are readily accessible from the street by wheelchair. The main entrance, with ticket office, is at the end of a cul-de-sac (Woodside Park Road), adjacent to the car park entrance. This leads on to the southbound platform. A Victorian post box is set into the front wall of the station.
The entrance leading on to the northbound platform is at the end of the cul-de-sac (Station Road), a turning off Holden Road.
The station is unique in the district as it is at the centre of a residential area. There are no retail stores around it. This is mainly due to residential pressures against commercial activity in the area.
See also
References
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Butt (1995), page 231
- 1 2 Butt (1995), page 254
- ↑ Hardy, Brian, ed. (March 2011). "How it used to be - freight on The Underground 50 years ago". Underground News (London Underground Railway Society) (591): 175–183. ISSN 0306-8617.
- 1 2 Clive's Underground Line Guides - Northern Line, Dates
- ↑ Rose (1999)
Sources
- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
- Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History (7th ed.). Capital Transport Publishing. ISBN 1-8541-4219-4. OCLC 59556887.
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