Brockley Hill | |
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Location | Brockley Hill |
Local authority | Barnet |
Grid reference | TQ187931 |
Owner | Never Opened |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Railway companies | |
Original company | London Underground |
Other information | |
Coordinates | 51°37′26″N 0°17′13″W / 51.624°N 0.287°W |
London transport portal |
Brockley Hill was a proposed London Underground station that was going to be built at Brockley Hill in north London as part of the 1935-1940 New Works Programme for the London Passenger Transport Board. This station would have been the first of three to be built as part of a 1930s extension project (known as the "Northern Heights") to extend the Northern Line to Bushey Heath. The next stops being Elstree South and Bushey Heath, both would have been near the Aldenham Works, London Transport's main bus overhaul depot.
Brockley Hill station was never completed because project funding was withdrawn in December 1939 due to the outbreak of the Second World War. Post-war the project did not restart because the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 had created the Metropolitan Green Belt around London curtailing further urban expansion. Without the planned housing estates to serve the line, the Northern Heights extension project was permanently cancelled. Most of the pre-war brick foundations for Brockley Hill station and its approach viaduct were demolished in the subsequent decade. The station's location is in what is now Edgware Way Grassland close to Edgwarebury Park on the north side of the junction of Edgware Way / Watford Bypass (A41), and Spur Road (A410).