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Woodside Park tube station

London Underground station

Field	Value
name	Woodside Park
image_name	Woodside Park stn building.JPG
caption	Station building
manager	London Underground
fare_zone	4
locale	Woodside Park
borough	London Borough of Barnet
original	Edgware, Highgate and London Railway
pregroup	Great Northern Railway
postgroup	LNER
years1	1 April 1872
events1	Opened by EH&LR as Torrington Park
years2	1872
events2	Renamed as Torrington Park, Woodside
years3	1882
events3	Renamed as Woodside Park
years4	14 April 1940
events4	Northern line services started
years5	1941
events5	LNER services ended
years6	1 October 1962
events6	Goods yard closed
platforms	2
<!--	tubeexits06	2.072
tubeexits07	2.203
tubeexits08	2.310
tubeexits09	2.31--
railcode	WOP
coordinates

Northern line platforms viewed from the footbridge, facing south.

Woodside Park is a London Underground station. It is located in Woodside Park, North London, England. The station is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, between Totteridge & Whetstone and West Finchley stations. It is in London fare zone 4. Woodside Park is the last station in an alphabetical list of London Underground stations.

History

Woodside Park station was planned by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EH&LR) and was originally opened as Torrington Park on 1 April 1872 by the Great Northern Railway The station was on a branch of a line that ran from Finsbury Park to Edgware via Highgate. The station was renamed within a month of opening, and again in 1882.

After the Railways Act 1921 created the Big Four railway companies the line was, from 1923, part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). The section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchley was incorporated into the London Underground network through the Northern Heights project begun in the late 1930s. The station was first served by Northern line trains on 14 April 1940 and, after a period where the station was serviced by both operators, LNER services ended in 1941. The station still retains much of its original Victorian architectural character today.

British Railways (the successor to the LNER) freight trains continued to serve the station's goods yard until 1 October 1962, when it was closed.

Incidents

The Provisional IRA exploded a bomb at the station's car park on 10 December 1992, during the afternoon rush hour. Commuters and residents were evacuated, though no-one was injured. The station is close to the Inglis Barracks, where a British soldier was killed by an IRA bombing in 1988.

Connections

London Buses route 383 serves the station.

Local information

The station has a large adjacent area, originally for storing coal and now used as a car park. Until about 2000, there was a second car park. A block of flats has now been built on this area.

The station is above ground. Both platforms are readily accessible from the street by wheelchair. The main entrance, with ticket office, is at the end of a cul-de-sac (Woodside Park Road), adjacent to the car park entrance. This leads on to the southbound platform. A Victorian post box is set into the front wall of the station.

The entrance leading on to the northbound platform is at the end of Station Road, a turning off Holden Road.

References

Notes

Sources

References

Butt (1995), page 231
Butt (1995), page 254
"Station Codes". Transport for London.
Rose (1999)
(December 1962). "News Flash 80".
Kathy Marks. (10 December 1992). "Bomb in van explodes at rush hour Tube station". The Independent.

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