High Barnet is a

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station, and former railway station, located in

Chipping Barnet Chipping Barnet or High Barnet is a suburban market town in north London, forming part of the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a suburban development built around a 12th-century settlement, and is located north-northwest of Chari ...

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. The station is the northern terminus of the High Barnet branch of the

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and is in

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. It is situated 10.2 miles (16.4 km) north north-west of

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. The next station south is Totteridge & Whetstone.

Services

Northern line trains are scheduled to arrive and depart every 3–9 minutes from the station's three southbound platforms, with trains operating to

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via

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or to

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via

. On days when Night Tube service is not running, between about 00:00 and 01:00, departing trains run as far as

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only, from where journeys to central London can be continued by night bus N20, which also serves High Barnet station itself. When trains are no longer required to run on the Northern line, they may be stabled on the sidings to the east of the station.

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routes 34, 107,

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, 634 and night route N20 serve the station.

History

High Barnet station was planned by the

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/ref> on the original site of the Barnet Faire. It was the terminus of the branch of a line that ran from

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via

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. After the 1921 Railways Act created the "Big Four" railway companies the line was, from 1923, part of the

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(LNER). The section of the High Barnet branch north of

was incorporated into the London Underground network through the "

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" project begun in the late 1930s. High Barnet station was first served by Northern line trains on 14 April 1940 and, after a period where the station was served by both operators, LNER services ended in 1941.

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(the successor to the LNER) freight trains continued to serve the station's goods yard until 1 October 1962, when it was closed. The station still retains much of its original Victorian architectural character today, with numerous platform buildings dating from the pre-London Transport era. In 2008, a new train crew accommodation block was constructed immediately to the south west of the station on part of the car park. This was opened on 31 January 2010. Also, further improvements have been introduced: A new covered step-free entrance from the car park to platform one is now available, along with a ramp at the end of the platform connecting it to platforms two and three. There are also two accessible toilets now available. These works were fully completed in October 2009. Therefore, there is full step-free access coverage in the station, although a considerably steep path to the station still exists if approaching from the north and a steep approach from the road to station level from the south also remains.

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High Barnet Station in 1935 during the LNER period prior to London Transport's take-over. {{Northern line navbox Northern line stations Tube stations in the London Borough of Barnet Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872 London Underground stations located above ground Former Great Northern Railway stations Chipping Barnet London Underground Night Tube stations

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