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Burnt Oak tube station

London Underground station

Field	Value
name	Burnt Oak
symbol	underground
manager	London Underground
locale	Burnt Oak
borough	London Borough of Barnet
platforms	2
fare_zone	4
<!--	tubecode	ZBO --
image_name	Burnt Oak stn building.JPG
caption	Burnt Oak station
coordinates
original	London Electric Railway
years1	27 October 1924
years2
years3
events1	Opened as Burnt Oak
events2	Renamed Burnt Oak (Watling)
events3	Renamed Burnt Oak
tubeexits06	2.654
tubeexits07	3.17
tubeexits08	3.51
tubeexits09	3.644--

Burnt Oak is a London Underground station in Burnt Oak, a suburb of north-west London. It is located on Watling Avenue, off the A5 (the Edgware Road, originally a Roman road known as Watling Street). The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Edgware and Colindale stations. It is in London fare zone 4.

Location

Burnt Oak is on Watling Avenue, situated near the Burnt Oak Library, separated by the rail tracks. The station serves a moderate residential area. Rows of shops are along Watling Avenue. Barnfield Primary School, Burnt Oak Brook, Goldbeaters Primary School, Barnet Burnt Oak Leisure Center and Edgware Community Hospital are nearby.

History

The station was designed by architect Stanley Heaps and opened as Burnt Oak (for Watling) on 27 October 1924, two months after the opening of the Hendon Central to Edgware extension of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway. For a while, the station was going to be named "Sheves Hill", and this name appears on a version of the Underground map from 1924. On a later version "Sheves Hill" is crossed out with "Burnt Oak" printed on the side. The station was originally provided with a temporary structure before the final ticket office building was constructed in 1925. The suffix was dropped from the name about 1950.

In 2018, it was announced that the station would gain step-free access by 2022, as part of a £200m investment to increase the number of accessible stations on the Tube.

In March 2025, a plaque was unveiled at the station to mark its centenary.

Services

Burnt Oak station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line between Edgware to the north and Colindale to the south. The typical off-peak service, in trains per hour (tph) is:

20 tph northbound to Edgware
10 tph southbound to Morden via Bank
10 tph southbound to Battersea Power Station via Charing Cross

Connections

London Buses route, 114, 204, 251,302 and night routes N5 and N16 serve the station.

Gallery

File:Burnt Oak railway station 1951303 a449cb96.jpg|View SE, towards Golders Green and central London in 1961 File:Burnt Oak stn northbound.JPG|Island platform looking north File:Burnt Oak stn southbound.JPG|Island platform looking south File:Burnt Oak roundel.JPG|Station roundel displaying the former suffix "for Watling"

References

"Burnt Oak tube station". Google Maps.
(19 January 2018). "Huge boost for accessibility as further 13 stations to go step-free".
(16 April 2025). "Regional News". Bauer Consumer Media.
Feather, Clive. (18 September 2018). "Northern line". Clive's Underground Line Guides.

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