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Banstock Road, EDGWARE, HA8 9JL

This is the entrance of the Mill Hill Old Railway nature reserve which follows the path of an old railway. This is normally locked by the Wildlife Trust but was opened specially for an "unorganised" walk from Mill Hill East to Edgware, going through the wildlife reserve that now occupies an old railway line's course.

Burnt Oak is mainly a large council estate and all looks pretty much like this.

The extension beyond Golders Green to Hendon and Edgware, delayed by the First World War, finally opened to Hendon Central in 1923 and on to Edgware on 18th August 1924. In 1933 it became part of the London Passenger Transport Board's Northern line as the Edgware branch. There are two main depots. These are at Golders Green and Morden, and two smaller depots at Edgware and Highgate. This is the entrance to the Edgware Depot, seen from Dean's Lane.

The road lies on the course of the former Mill Hill East to Edgware railway line - see Image

This is the trackbed of the former railway looking from the other side of Dean's Lane to Image, (which gives a brief history of the line), down and over Dean's Brook and towards the former terminus at Edgware. To add insult to injury the route is now in use as the access road to London Underground's Edgware Depot.

Seen from Dean's Lane the track ahead which is now a nature reserve was once going to be a part of the Northern line. The line between what is now Finsbury Park and Edgware was opened by the Great Northern Railway on the 22nd August 1867. In the London Passenger Transport Board's 'New Works Plan' of 1935 it was proposed that the line be taken over by the Northern line and be diverted into the new Underground station at Edgware which had opened in 1924. The service on the line from East Finchley to Edgware was suspended from 11th September 1939 to allow the work to be completed and the New Works Plan was expected to be completed by spring 1941. In the event the Northern line branch never got past Mill Hill East and so 11th September 1939 was the last day the line was used by passenger trains. The line was closed completely on 1st June 1964. For a full history of this line and photographs showing how the Northern line would have been extended beyond Edgware to Bushey Heath see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/e/edgware/ and http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Northern_Heights_9.html and http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Northern_Heights_10.html