Piccadilly Pilot wrote:
"Mmlabbd" wrote in message
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So today I travelled on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line
for the first time and was wondering...Why is East Finchley station so
LARGE when Finchley Central is relatively small?



Because East Finchley was intended to be a junction station hence four
platforms and it is/was a train crew booking on point so needs offices and
messroom facilities.

It was built in the 1930s when the architectural fashion was for larger
structures with whereas Finchley Central dates from 1872 and was built as a
minor branch line station by the Great Northern Railway.


As Romix elucidated below, Finchley Central was also going to get a
partial axe as part of the Northern Heights expansion, with an
additional platform and major track rearrangements, to provide the same
layout at East Finchley for the Barnet and Mill Hill branches of the
Northern.

As it is, the current layout supports the conversion of the Mill Hill
branch into a two-station shuttle.

Brad