Burnt Oak tube station

London Underground station

Burnt Oak

Location of Burnt Oak in Greater London

LocationBurnt OakLocal authorityLondon Borough of BarnetManaged byLondon UndergroundNumber of platforms2Fare zone4London Underground annual entry and exit2018

4.24 million^[1]2019

4.19 million^[2]2020

2.93 million^[3]2021

1.91 million^[4]2022

3.11 million^[5]Railway companiesOriginal companyLondon Electric RailwayKey dates27 October 1924Opened as Burnt Oakc. 1928Renamed Burnt Oak (Watling)c. 1950Renamed Burnt OakOther informationExternal links

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Coordinates51°36′10″N 0°15′50″W / 51.60278°N 0.26389°W / 51.60278; -0.26389

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Burnt Oak is a London Underground station in Burnt Oak, north London, on Watling Avenue, off the A5 (the Edgware Road, originally a Roman Road known as Watling Street). The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Edgware and Colindale stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 4.

Location

Burnt Oak is on Watling Avenue, situated near the Burnt Oak Library, separated by the rail tracks. The station serves a moderate residential area. Rows of shops are along Watling Avenue. Barnfield Primary School, Burnt Oak Brook, Goldbeaters Primary School, Barnet Burnt Oak Leisure Center and Edgware Community Hospital are nearby.^[6]

History

The station was designed by architect Stanley Heaps and opened as Burnt Oak (for Watling) ^{[citation needed]} on 27 October 1924, two months after the extension of the Hampstead & Highgate Line from Hendon Central to Edgware had opened. For a while, the station was going to be named "Sheves Hill", and this name appears on a version of the Underground map from 1924. On a later version "Sheves Hill" is crossed out with "Burnt Oak" printed on the side. The station was originally provided with a temporary structure before the final ticket office building was constructed in 1925. The suffix was dropped from the name about 1950.

In 2018, it was announced that the station would gain step free access by 2022, as part of a £200m investment to increase the number of accessible stations on the Tube.^[7]

Services and connections

The station is on the London Underground Northern line, between Edgware and Colindale stations, in Zone 4. The typical off-peak service, in trains per hour (tph) is:^[8]

20 tph northbound to Edgware
10 tph southbound to Morden via Bank
10 tph southbound to Kennington via Charing Cross

London Buses routes 32, 114, 142, 204, 251, 292, 302, 614 and 644, and night routes N5 and N16 serve the station.

Gallery

View SE, towards Golders Green and central London in 1961
Island platform looking north
Island platform looking south
One of the larger roundels displaying the former suffix "for Watling"

References

^ "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
^ Burnt Oak tube station (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
^ "Huge boost for accessibility as further 13 stations to go step-free". London City Hall. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
^ Feather, Clive (18 September 2018). "Northern line". Clive's Underground Line Guides. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Burnt Oak tube station.

London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- Construction of Watling Avenue from Burnt Oak station to Edgware Road, 14 May 1924
- Junction of Watling Avenue (on right of picture) and Edgware Road, 1926
- Temporary station building constructed for opening of station, 1925
- Permanent station building, 1925

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Edgware Terminus		Northern line		Colindale towards Battersea Power Station, Morden or Kennington

Northern line

Stations

High Barnet branch	High Barnet Totteridge & Whetstone Woodside Park West Finchley Mill Hill East Finchley Central East Finchley Highgate Archway Tufnell Park Kentish Town Camden Town
Edgware branch	Edgware Burnt Oak Colindale Hendon Central Brent Cross Golders Green Hampstead Belsize Park Chalk Farm Camden Town
Charing Cross branch	Camden Town Mornington Crescent Euston Warren Street Goodge Street Tottenham Court Road Leicester Square Charing Cross Embankment Waterloo Kennington
Bank Branch	Camden Town Euston King's Cross St Pancras Angel Old Street Moorgate Bank London Bridge Borough Elephant & Castle ( 100m) Kennington
Morden branch	Kennington Oval Stockwell Clapham North Clapham Common Clapham South Balham Tooting Bec Tooting Broadway Colliers Wood South Wimbledon Morden
Battersea branch	Kennington Nine Elms Battersea Power Station

Rolling
stock

Current	1995 Stock
Former	1906 Stock 1938 Stock 1949 Stock 1956 Stock 1959 Stock 1962 Stock 1972 Stock Standard Stock

History

Former companies	City and South London Railway Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Edgware, Highgate and London Railway Underground Electric Railways Company of London
Former lines	Northern City Line
Former stations	City Road Essex Road Finsbury Park Highbury & Islington Drayton Park King William Street South Kentish Town
Abandoned plans	Northern Heights plan Aldenham depot Alexandra Palace Brockley Hill Bushey Heath Cranley Gardens Crouch End Elstree South Mill Hill Muswell Hill North End Stroud Green