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Dollis Park, LONDON, N3 1HJ

It seems that the local authority have recently undertaken a regular severe pollarding of the roadside London Plane trees in this area of Finchley, and Dollis Park is no exception. Only open fields were shown in this area on the 1896 Ordnance Survey map, but by the time that the 1913 edition was printed, the current road and house layout was almost completely in place.

Mill Hill East bound Northern Line train leaves Finchley Central. The station is just visible through the arches of the bridge, which carries Regents Park Road over the railway. Southbound trains from Mill Hill use the line on the left. The centre line is used to turn trains that terminate at Finchley Central.

View along the Northern Line Mill Hill East branch. The line becomes single track beyond the siding, although all the structures were built to allow double track should traffic have warranted it. Just beyond the points is the bridge over Crescent Road - the railings are there to stop staff falling from the unused section of the double width bridge piers. A train can be seen disappearing into the distance.

Top of a redundant railway yard light just outside Finchley Central Station, next to the Mill Hill East branch. The concrete post has decayed exposing the tube that carried the power cable. One of Ken Livingstone's 'Rats with wings' prepares for another days work in the waste food disposal industry.

The railway was originally built by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway, but was taken over by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) before it was opened in 1867. This section was on the line between the original Finchley and Hendon station, now the Finchley Central tube station, and Edgware. A branch line from Finchley and Hendon station to High Barnet was opened by the GNR in 1872. Today the main GNR line here forms the stub end of the Northern Line's branch to Mill Hill East, while the former branch line to High Barnet is now the main route of the Northern Line. In the distance in this photo a High Barnet bound train has just left Finchley Central station and is taking the sharp bend to the north towards High Barnet. This is the view from the footbridge joining Dollis Park and Nether Street. Of the three tracks in view here the central one is a headshunt siding that ends at a set of buffers just beyond the bridge behind the photographer, while the two outer tracks join beyond the end of the siding to create the single track line to Mill Hill East. Please see Image in Image for the view from the footbridge in the opposite direction.

The railway was originally built by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway, but was taken over by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) before it was opened in 1867. This section was on the line between the original Finchley and Hendon station, now the Finchley Central tube station, and Edgware. A branch line from Finchley and Hendon station to High Barnet was opened by the GNR in 1872. Today the main GNR line here forms the stub end of the Northern Line's branch to Mill Hill East, while the former branch line to High Barnet is now the main route of the Northern Line. This is the view from the footbridge joining Dollis Park and Nether Street. Of the three tracks in view here the central one is a headshunt siding that ends at a set of buffers, while the two outer tracks join beyond the end of the siding to create the single track line to Mill Hill East. Please see Image in Image for the view from the footbridge in the opposite direction.

Situated on Dollis Park, the tall brick building is the telephone exchange. The sorting office is to the right. The shared site is a direct result of their common heritage as 'Post Office' buildings.