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Honiton Gardens, LONDON, NW7 1GF

A railway track used to run across this grassy area. The photograph was taken from a bridge which used to cross the railway. The railway closed in 1964. Housing has since been built across part of the route here.

The bridge crosses the former railway line from Mill Hill East to Edgware, which would have become part of the London Underground Northern Line under the 1930s New Works programme (specifically the Northern Heights scheme) were it not for the intervention of war.

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. Northern line trains first served Mill Hill East on 18th May 1941. The line was closed completely beyond Mill Hill East on 1st June 1964. This view is across the first bridge over the former line beyond the buffers at Mill Hill East seen at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5099651 Much of the former trackbed is now a linear parkland walk. For a history of Mill Hill east station see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Hill_East_tube_station and for the line beyond Mill Hill East see http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Northern_Heights_9.html

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This is one of two bridges that carry Sanders Lane across the dismantled railway between Mill Hill East and the end of the present day footpath at Pages Lane. Brackets remain in place and may be evidence of the proposed electrification of this line. This bridge has been closed to road traffic, the remnants of this end of Sanders Lane being now a footpath. Barnet's corporate plan proposes reopening Sanders Lane to through traffic by 2011 and this bridge will have to be replaced.

The path follows the former railway line from Mill Hill East to Edgware, which would have become part of the London Underground Northern Line under the 1930s New Works programme (specifically the Northern Heights scheme) were it not for the intervention of war.

The bridge crosses the former railway line from Mill Hill East to Edgware, which would have become part of the London Underground Northern Line under the 1930s New Works programme (specifically the Northern Heights scheme) were it not for the intervention of war.

On the bridge looking along Sanders Lane towards Tavistock Avenue. The road has been a footpath for many years. Note that the parapet of the bridge on the right has been removed, although the cap stones, like those on the left, have been replaced and a chainlink fence has been added. I wonder if demolition work began but was abandoned? Barnet's corporate plan includes proposals to reopen Sanders Lane to through traffic by 2011. Under the proposals this bridge will be replaced.

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