Highgate — Local services in London

Highgate underground station, 3 exits, has escalators, needs more signs...

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Highgate is a London Underground station and former railway station in Archway Road, in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. The station takes its name from nearby Highgate Village. It is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between Archway and East Finchley stations and is in Travelcard Zone 3.

LocationHighgateLocal authorityLondon Borough of Haringey[1]Managed byLondon UndergroundNumber of platforms2Fare zone3London Underground annual entry and exit2014 5.04 million[2]2015 5.48 million[2]2016 5.77 million[2]2017 5.87 million[2]2018 5.29 million[3]Key dates22 August 1867Opened (surface platforms)19 January 1941Opened (Northern line platforms)3 July 1954Closed (surface platforms)1970Closed (surface tracks to all traffic)Other informationExternal links

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The station was originally opened in 1867 as part of the Great Northern Railway's line between Finsbury Park and Edgware stations. As part of their only partially completed Northern Heights plan, the London Underground started serving the station in 1941, using new platforms in tunnels beneath the surface station. The platforms of the surface station remain, but were last used in 1954, and the section of the line through them to Finsbury Park was closed in 1970 and lifted by 1972. One of the original 1867 station buildings still exists, and is in use as a...

Fairly inconspicuous, you could be forgiven for assuming it’s located in woodland. Retaining some external platforms, and tunnels from previous incarnations and the aborted/moth-balled “Northern Heights Project.” Functional but forgettable interior: nothing here registers other than a niggling sense of incompletion on...

Highgate is a London Underground station and former railway station in Archway Road, in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. The station takes its name from nearby Highgate Village. It is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between Archway and East Finchley stations and is in...