Hendon Central is a

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station on an A41 junction in north-west

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. It is on the Edgware branch of the

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between Colindale and Brent Cross stations, and is on the boundary between Travelcard Zone 3 and Zone 4. Its postcode is NW4 2TE. The station was opened along with Brent Cross (then called Brent) tube station on 19 November 1923 as the first stage of an extension of the Golders Green branch of the

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. The station served as the terminus of the line's western fork until 18 August 1924 when the second and final section of the extension to

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was opened.

History

Hendon Central, like all stations north from Golders Green, is a surface station (although the tracks enter twin tunnels a short distance further north on the way to Colindale). When it was built it stood "in lonely glory amid fields", as one writer puts it, south of the old village of

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, which has since been swallowed up by London's suburbs. The station is a Grade II

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, designed in a neo-Georgian style by Stanley Heaps, who also designed Brent Cross station in a similar style, with a prominent

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featuring a Doric

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. The fact that the area was largely undeveloped allowed a hitherto unusual degree of coordination between the station and the surrounding buildings that were constructed over the next few years. The station was intended to be the centre and a key architectural feature of a new suburban town; it faces a circus in diameter that is intersected by four approach roads which provide access to all parts of Hendon and the surrounding areas beyond. For many years this was a roundabout known as 'Central Circus'; however it is now a crossroads controlled by traffic signals. Writing in 1932, William Passingham commented the integrated approach taken at Hendon Central as "an outstanding example of the co-ordination of road-planning with passenger station requirements." He noted, only nine years after the station opened, that it had already become the centre of an "ever-widening cluster of new houses" and accurately predicted that it would become "the centre of small township", or what would now be called a suburb.

Connections

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routes 83,

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, 143, 186,

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and 326 and night route N113 serve the station.

Gallery

File:Hendon Central tube.JPG, Entrance to Hendon Central from other side of the road File:Hendon Central Station (1) 02.jpg, Stairs leading down to the platforms File:Hendon Central Station (1) 03.jpg, Southbound platform File:Hendon Central Station (1) 04.jpg, Station roundel

References

External links

London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
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