"Lawrence Myers" wrote in message ...

That was something completely different. In late 1930's there was a plan to
extend Edgware Branch northward to Elstree & Bushey Heath. Prelimiary
building work took place in Edgware and bridge butresses are still visible
from A41. This was abandoned on outbreak of WWII, and never resurrected.

The route being discussed here is the old goods line (orginally passenger)
from Mill Hill East, past Mill Hill (The Hale) to a separate station in
Edgware. It went past the site of the present Copthall Stadium.

A separate station in Edgware? I'm pretty sure it was intended to be
the same station in Edgware, with a junction between the two lines
immediately south-east of the station. Two of the platforms at Edgware
station are obviously placed to permit extension of the line under the
street, and you can (I think) still see the route of the line to Mill
Hill curving off to the left as you leave the station on the existing
Northern Line.

The Northern Line was roughly planned to have run from Bushey Heath to
Edgware, bifurcated into two routes from there to Camden Town, joined
up there, bifurcated again into two routes from there to Kennington,
and joined up again for the run to Morden. Oh, and there would have
been a route from Moorgate to High Barnet via Finsbury Park that
paralleled the Northern Line between East Finchley and Finchley
Central.

Imagine Celia: "This station is Edgware. This train terminates at
Kennington via Finchley Central and Charing Cross. Change here for the
Golders Green branch. The next station is Mill Hill (The Hale)."