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Station Road, EDGWARE, HA8 7AT

Looking down the hill towards the junction with Penshurst Gardens and Edgwarebury Lane. Shops with flats above dominate the street which becomes Hale Lane as it bends to the right in the distance.

Just along from the Underground station, this is the main concentration of shops in Edgware.

Under the London Underground Northern Heights scheme, part of the 1930s New Works programme, it was proposed to extend the Northern Line beyond Edgware to Bushey Heath, and had the scheme come to fruition these tracks would have led away under the road northwards. This was a time of rapid suburban expansion and it was expected that London would continue to expand outwards; in addition, as part of the same scheme the Underground took over various suburban railways built by the Great Northern Railway and its predecessors, including a branch line from Finchley Central to Edgware, which would have created a second route into London and thus a way of handling the increased loadings that extension would have involved. The Second World War broke out before the extension could take place; after the war, priorities changed and in particular the Green Belt legislation meant that suburban expansion no longer took place at pre-War rates, so the scheme was abandoned. The line between Finchley Central and Edgware was only electrified as far as Mill Hill East (the section that remains as part of the Underground to this day) and the steam-operated section beyond Mill Hill East to Edgware was abandoned in the 1950s.

LU's "New Works" programme in the mid-1930s included extending the Northern line northwards from Edgware to Bushey Heath via Brockley Hill and Elstree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgware_tube_station . The line was never built, although some works were carried out including the partial boring of tunnels at the ends of platforms 2 and 3 at Edgware station to taken the tracks under Station Road.

Opened on 18 August,1924

An image of the bufferstops at Edgware tube station showing the tunnelmouth which was planned to accept tracks taking the line 5 kilometres northwest of this station to a new terminus at Bushey Heath. Construction on the new line to Bushey Heath began in the late 1930s but were halted by the outbreak of the Second World War. After the war, Green Belt legislation was introduced to limit the outward expansion of urban areas into the surrounding countryside. The area through which the new Bushey Heath extension was routed was designated as Green Belt meaning that the planned residential developments were prevented and the need for the stations serving them was removed. The completion of the plans to extend the Northern line were formally cancelled in 1950.