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Bushey Heath tube station was an unbuilt London Underground station in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire. The planned location of the station was at the junction of the A41 and A411 roads. Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and some outdoor signs. ...
Map sources for Bushey at grid reference TQ132952 Bushey (population 24,000) is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. ...
Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county in the United Kingdom, officially part of the East of England Government region. ...
The A41 is a major trunk road in United Kingdom that links London to Birkenhead. ...
History
 Planned Bushey Heath extension of Northern Line The station was the last of three planned by London Underground in 1935 for an extension of the Northern Line from Edgware. It would have served as the new terminus of the line. 1935(MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Northern Line is a deep-level tube line of the London Underground, coloured black on the Tube map. ...
Edgware is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. ...
The previous station on the route would have been Elstree South to the east.
The extension was part of the Northern Heights project which was intended to electrify a number of steam-operated London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) branch lines and to incorporate them into the Northern Line. The Northern Line is a deep-level tube line of the London Underground, coloured black on the Tube map. ...
The London and North Eastern Railway or LNER was the second-largest of the Big Four railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. ...
Construction works on the Northern Heights project began in the late 1930s but were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. Most of the work undertaken to that date had been carried out on the existing LNER branch tracks but some work between Edgware and Bushey Heath had taken place. The route of the new rail line had been laid out and some earthworks had been constructed. // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ...
Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
The sites of all three new stations were in semi-rural locations and, as it had elsewhere, it was intended that the opening of the new section of Underground line would stimulate the construction of new residential estates that the stations would then serve. After the war, new legislation was introduced with the intention of limiting the continuing expansion of urban areas into their surrounding countryside. This legistation created the Green Belt around London and the area designated included the area covered by the new Northern Line extension. Without the possibility of constructing the new housing estates, the new line had no purpose and the plans for the extension were cancelled in 1950. In city planning, the Green Belt is a concept for controlling metropolitan growth introduced around London, England by minister of housing Duncan Sandys via a Government Circular. ...
1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
During the war the depot buildings were used for the construction of Halifax bombers and the land owned by London Underground at Bushey was used for farming. After the abandonment of the extension plans the depot buildings became a bus overhaul works. Halifax W1057 ZA-X of No. ...
See also // Edgware, Highgate and London Railway This railway ran from Finsbury Park to Edgware, and remains in its original form only in the sections of the Northern Line between East Finchley station and Mill Hill East. ...
Brockley Hill tube station was an unbuilt London Underground station in the Brockley Hill area of north London. ...
External links - Map sources
- Lost Lines Images of Bushey Heath station plans
- London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- Land Girls working on London Transport farm at Bushey
- Bus overhaul works at Aldenham
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