On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 19:56:35 -0000, "John Rowland"
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"John Rowland" wrote in message
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Has Finchley Central station been relocated
from the Station Close area?
Station Close is a small road off Station Road in Finchley. Its angle is
reminescent of station approach roads across the country, but it is not
particularly near the station. This makes me think that the station used to
be here, but has been moved to its current site.
Did the station's name change when it was relocated?
Was the old station called "Finchley" and did it acquire the name "Central"
when it was moved?
According to Leboff ('London Underground Stations', Ian Allen, 1994):
"Opened as 'Finchley & Hendon' on 22 August 1867 by the GNR. The
station was renamed 'Finchley' on 1 February 1872 and the
track/platform layout altered two months later to allow through trains
to High Barnet. Its title was changed to 'Finchley (Church End)' on 1
February 1894, and the station was finally given its current name on 1
April 1940. The track layout was latered and the platforms extended
at their southern end in advance of the commencement of Northern Line
serviuces on 14 April 1940, when the line was extended from East
Finchley to High Barnet."
The current station building is the original GNR one, and Station
Close is much too far south to have been affected by the
platform-extentsions in 1940. Take a look at the aerial view from
www.multimap.co.uk:
http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...ze=small&lang=
You can see that Station Road is not perfectly straight and it does
"bulge" away from the track line quite considerably, hence Station
Close (roughly central on the photo) could be "fitted" in.
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