Brent Cross is a

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station located on Highfield Avenue in the

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area of north west London. The station is a Grade II

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. The station is on the Edgware branch of the

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, between Hendon Central and

stations, and in

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. The

Brent Cross shopping centre Brent Cross Shopping Centre is a large shopping centre in Hendon, north London, owned by Hammerson and Abrdn. Located by the Brent Cross interchange, it opened in 1976 as the UK's first out-of-town shopping centre. Brent Cross attracted 15–1 ...

is equidistant between this station and Hendon Central station.

History

The station was designed by architect

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and opened as Brent, the name of the nearby river, on 19 November 1923. It was the first station of the extension of what was then known as the Hampstead & Highgate Line, which was built through undeveloped rural areas to

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. The extension had first been planned prior to the

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when the station had been due to be called "Woodstock". It was renamed from Brent to its current name on the 2 March 1976 opening of the shopping centre. Two passing loops were built at the station, not long after it opened, to allow fast trains to overtake slower ones here, but these extra tracks were removed in the 1930s. The bridges over Highfield Avenue reflect this extra width, although both north and south of the station the alignment narrows again.

Development

A planning application, registered in March 2008, for the nearby

Brent Cross Brent Cross is originally the name of a crossroads that today forms a major interchange for traffic in the London Borough of Barnet, England. Located a mile from the centres of Hendon and Golders Green, the area also contains the Brent Cros ...

area would improve bus services passing the station. A turning circle for buses outside the tube station is proposed, needing the demolition of nearby housing. In early 2008, the London Group of the Campaign for Better Transport published the North and West London Light Railway Proposal (q.v.) for a rapid transit scheme through the Brent Cross site, terminating at the tube station.

Connections

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routes

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, 210 and 232 serve the station.

References

Gallery

File:Brent 1 LPTB Station 1894835 fb6994a7.jpg, View westward, towards Edgware in 1961 File:Brent 2 lte station 1892545 de339fc4.jpg, View NW towards Edgware from station entrance in 1961 File:Brent Cross stn look north.JPG, Island platform looking north File:Brent Cross stn look south.JPG, Island platform looking south File:Brent Cross stn roundel.JPG, Roundel on southbound platform face File:Brent Cross stn side entrance.JPG, Alternative entrance to the rear (north) of the main building

External links

A History of London Tube Maps – 1914 map showing proposed station name as Woodstock

London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
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