page_title: New Southgate railway station
section_title: Building of the station
hierarchical_section_title: New Southgate railway station / History / Building of the station
caption_attribution_description: English: Up ECML mineral at New Southgate. View northward, under Friern Barnet Lane Bridge towards Hatfield, Hitchin, Peterborough and the North. This coal train is on the Up Fast running Class E (partially fitted), with BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 No. 92181. (See also TQ2076&#160;: Parliament Mews.
context_page_description: New Southgate railway station is on the boundary of the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough of Enfield in north London, in Travelcard Zone 4. It is 6 miles 35 chains down the line from London King's Cross.
  The station, and all trains serving it, has been operated by Great Northern since 14 September 2014.
context_section_description: The station opened by order of the Middlesex Justices (see Middlesex Guildhall), on 7 August 1850 as Colney Hatch & Southgate station or Colney Hatch station by the Great Northern Railway (GNR). The Justices insisted on train stopping daily for the benefit of the Second Middlesex County Asylum opened that year at Colney Hatch, which became Friern Hospital and closed in 1993. The original booking office, which sat on a bridge across the railway lines, burned down in 1976 and was replaced by a portakabin.
caption: Up ECML mineral at New Southgate in 1962
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