page_title: Edgware tube station
section_title: New Works Programme
hierarchical_section_title: Edgware tube station / History / New Works Programme
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of proposed Bushey Heath extension of the Northern Line. London Underground (Based on Northern Heights.png image by User:ChrisO)
context_page_description: Edgware is a London Underground station in Edgware, in the London Borough of Barnet, in North London. The station is the terminus of the Edgware branch of the Northern line and the next station towards central London is Burnt Oak. Edgware is in Travelcard Zone 5.
context_section_description: In 1935 London Underground announced its New Works Programme. This had major implications for Edgware Underground station and the Morden-Edgware Line (as the Northern line was then known):
  A group of LNER lines in north London (the Northern Heights lines) including the branch from Finchley to Edgware would be taken over by London Underground and amalgamated with the Morden-Edgware Line.
  The existing Underground line would be extended north-west from Edgware by 5 kilometres to a new terminus at Bushey Heath and a depot at Aldenham. The extension to Bushey Heath involved three new stations (from south-east to north-west):
  Brockley Hill
  Elstree South
  Bushey Heath
  Much of the land for the railway's alignment had originally been bought by the W&ER in the 19th century, but it had not been able to raise the capital to fund the construction and its power's had expired in 1911. The Underground Group had bought the W&ER in 1922. The Underground's scheme modified the W&ER's plan to connect to the LNER branch by starting the extension from the Morden-Edgware Line station instead. The scheme involved the closure of the LNER station 200 metres south of the Underground station and retained the W&ER's connection to the LNER's single track line from where it passed over the Underground's tracks just to the east of the station and into new platforms to be built in the Underground station.
  The new link at Edgware and others between LNER and Underground tracks near East Finchley station and at Finsbury Park would have made it theoretically possible to travel south from Edgware to central London via three routes:
  the existing Underground line to Golders Green, Camden Town and beyond
  the former LNER line to Finchley Central and Highgate, then the other branch of the Morden-Edgware Line to Camden Town and beyond
  the former LNER line to Finchley Central, Highgate and Finsbury Park then the Northern City Line to Moorgate and beyond
caption: Planned Bushey Heath extension
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