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{{Infobox London station
|symbol       = underground
| name        = Highgate
| image_name  = Highgate_Station_(5)_01.jpg
| caption     = Archway Road entrance to Highgate station
| manager     = [[London Underground]]
| fare_zone   = 3
| locale      = [[Highgate]]
| borough     = [[London Borough of Haringey]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/London+Borough+of+Haringey,+Greater+London |title=London Borough of Haringey |access-date=28 June 2015}}</ref>
| years1      = 22 August 1867
| years2      = 19 January 1941
| years3      = 3 July 1954
| years4      = 1970
| events1     = Opened (surface platforms)
| events2     = Opened (Northern line platforms)
| events3     = Closed (surface platforms)
| events4     = Closed (surface tracks to all traffic)
| platforms   = 2
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| tubeexits08 = {{increase}} 4.85
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| coordinates = {{coord|51.5777|-0.1458|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
}}

'''Highgate''' is a [[London Underground]] station and a former railway station. It is located in [[Archway Road]] in the [[London Borough of Haringey]], [[North London]]. The station takes its name from nearby [[Highgate Village]]. It is on the [[High Barnet tube station|High Barnet branch]] of the [[Northern line]], between [[East Finchley tube station|East Finchley]] and [[Archway tube station|Archway]] stations. It is in [[London fare zone 3]].

The station was originally opened in 1867, on the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]]'s line between [[Finsbury Park station|Finsbury Park]] and [[Edgware railway station|Edgware]] stations. As part of their only partially completed [[Northern Heights plan]], the London Underground started serving the station in 1941, using new platforms in tunnels beneath the surface station. The platforms of the surface station remain, but were last used in 1954; the section of the line through them to Finsbury Park was closed in 1970 and lifted by 1972. One of the original 1867 station buildings still exists and is in use as a private house.

==History==
===Original station===
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Highgate station was originally constructed by the [[Edgware, Highgate and London Railway]] in the 1860s on its line from [[Finsbury Park station]] to [[Edgware railway station|Edgware station]].  Before the line was opened, it was purchased in July 1867 by the larger [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]] (GNR),{{sfn|Beard|2002|p=6}} whose main line from [[London King's Cross railway station|King's Cross]] ran through Finsbury Park on its way to [[Potters Bar]] and the north. The station opened along with the railway to Edgware on 22 August 1867.<ref name=CULG_1>{{cite web |url=http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/northern.html#dates |title=Clive's Underground Line Guides – Northern Line |access-date=11 February 2015}}</ref><ref name=dshs>{{cite web |url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/highgate/ |title=Highgate Station |publisher=Disused stations |access-date=11 February 2015}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|A branch from [[Finchley Central tube station|Finchley Central]] to [[High Barnet railway station|High Barnet]] opened on 1 April 1872.<ref name=CULG_1/>|group="n"}}

Due to the hilly terrain, the station was built in a deep cutting excavated from [[Highgate|Highgate Hill]], adjacent to [[Archway Road]]. Tunnels penetrated the hillside at each end of the station, leading towards East Finchley to the north and [[Crouch End railway station|Crouch End]] to the south. When built, the station had two [[side platform]]s, with three tracks between them, and a station building on the south side. A footbridge linked the two platforms.<ref name=dshs/>

A branch line was constructed from Highgate to [[Alexandra Palace railway station (Muswell Hill branch)|Alexandra Palace]] by the [[Muswell Hill Railway]] (MHR) and was opened on 24 May 1873.<ref name=CULG_1/> The new branch split from the original route north of the station in a wide arc around [[Highgate Wood]]. The next station on the branch line, when it opened, was [[Muswell Hill railway station|Muswell Hill]] and an intermediate station was built later at [[Cranley Gardens railway station|Cranley Gardens]] in 1902.<ref name=CULG_1/>

In the 1880s, the station was rebuilt, with two tracks flanking a central [[island platform]] instead of the two side platforms. The island platform was accessed from a ticket office in the middle of the footbridge.<ref name=dshs/> In 1911, the MHR branch was taken over by the GNR.<ref name=CULG_1/><ref name=dshs/> After the [[Railways Act 1921]] created the ''[[Big Four (British railway companies)|Big Four]]'' railway companies, the GNR became part of the [[London and North Eastern Railway|London & North Eastern Railway]] (LNER) in 1923.{{sfn|Wolmar|2005|p=227}}

At the start of the 1930s, the station had around 54 trains daily from High Barnet, 43 from Alexandra Palace and a few through trains from Edgware. Services ran to Finsbury Park and then either [[London King's Cross railway station|King's Cross]], [[Moorgate station|Moorgate]] or [[Broad Street railway station (England)|Broad Street]].{{sfn|Horne|2009|p=41}}{{#tag:ref|Trains to Moorgate ran to [[London King's Cross railway station#King's Cross York Road|King's Cross York Road]] then used the [[Widened Lines|City Widened Lines]]. Trains to Broad Street ran via the [[Canonbury railway station|Canonbury curve]] and the [[North London Railway]].|group="n"}}
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===Northern Heights project===
[[File:Extract of 1900 Map showing Edgware Highgate and London Railway.png|thumb|GNR lines from Finsbury Park to Edgware, High Barnet and Alexandra Palace, 1900. The route to be absorbed into the Northern line.|alt=A 1900 map of part of Middlesex and Hertfordshire (now incorporated into Greater London) showing rail lines.]]
In 1935, the [[London Passenger Transport Board]] (LPTB) announced a proposal, which became known as the [[Northern Heights project]]. This was to take over the LNER lines from Finsbury Park to Edgware, High Barnet and Alexandra Palace, then link them to both the [[Northern line]] at East Finchley and the [[Northern City line]] at Finsbury Park.{{#tag:ref|At Edgware, the LNER's station was to be closed with the end of the line diverted into the Northern line's own [[Edgware tube station|Edgware station]].{{sfn|Beard|2002|p=59}}|group="n"}} The construction of the first phase of this project involved extending tube train services from the Northern line's existing terminus at [[Archway tube station|Archway station]] (then also called Highgate), through a new section of paired tunnels under Highgate station to emerge south of East Finchley station, where track connections to the LNER line were made.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=116}}

To provide an interchange between the new deep-level platforms and the existing surface platforms, a subterranean concourse was constructed immediately beneath the existing station. The concourse was connected to the deep-level platforms with escalators and to the existing platforms by stairs. Street entrances to the concourse were provided from the south (Archway Road) and the north (Priory Gardens). At the same time, the buildings on the surface platforms were partly reconstructed and the footbridge was removed. Northern line services through the new tunnels to East Finchley started operating on 3 July 1939, although they did not stop at Highgate until later.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=131}}{{sfn|Rose|1999}}
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===Wartime===
[[File:Highgate station southbound look north.JPG|thumb|left|One of the extra-long platforms constructed for, but never used by, nine-car trains|alt=View along a platform in a circular tunnel. Tracks run on the right side with the walls covered with cream and green tiles. An illuminated 'way out' sign overhead indicates the exit.]]
Following the outbreak of the [[World War II|Second World War]] in September 1939, works to complete the electrification of the LNER lines were slowed or halted. The line from Finchley Central to Edgware closed for reconstruction on 11 September 1939.{{sfn|Beard|2002|p=92}}{{#tag:ref|The section from Finchley Central to [[Mill Hill East tube station|Mill Hill East]] was completed and reopened on 18 May 1941 to serve the nearby [[Inglis Barracks]].{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=140}}|group="n"}} Northern line services were extended from East Finchley to High Barnet on 14 April 1940{{sfn|Rose|1999}} and started serving the deep level platforms at Highgate on 19 January 1941, though not all of the new station buildings had been completed.{{sfn|Rose|1999}}{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=137}} The surface platforms at Highgate continued to be served by LNER steam trains.<ref name=dshs/>

The deep-level platforms were constructed {{convert|490|ft|m}} long to accommodate extra-long nine-car trains, which were planned for services on the Northern line but never served Highgate, having been withdrawn at the start of the war.{{sfn|Badsey-Ellis|2016|p=222}}{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|pp=126 & 137}}{{#tag:ref|Tube trains at this time were typically six or seven cars long. A nine-car train began operating as an experiment on 8 November 1937 between [[Colindale tube station|Colindale]] and [[Kennington tube station|Kennington]]. By the end of February 1938, four nine-car trains were operating between Edgware and Kennington. Platforms at Edgware, [[Burnt Oak tube station|Burnt Oak]], Colindale, [[Hendon Central tube station|Hendon Central]], [[Brent Cross tube station|Brent Cross]] and [[Golders Green tube station|Golders Green]] were extended to accommodate the longer trains. At other stations on the Charing Cross branch, the last two or first two cars remained in the tunnel.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=123}} The platforms at Highgate were the only deep-level platforms constructed, though longer platforms were provided on some surface stations.{{sfn|Badsey-Ellis|2016|pp=222–23}}|group="n"}} With the interchange between LNER and Northern line services available at Highgate from January 1941, LNER trains to East Finchley ended on 2 March 1941, after which they operated between Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace only.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=140}}{{#tag:ref|As the connection between the LNER tracks and the new Northern line tracks was to the north-west of the junction for the Alexandra Palace branch, the branch could only be served by trains running to and from Finsbury Park.<ref name=CULG_1/>|group="n"}} In 1942, LNER services through Highgate were reduced to rush hour only operations.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=140}} During the war, the deep-level platforms at Highgate were used, as many were, as a shelter from the bombing of London by the [[Luftwaffe]] and, later, [[V-1 flying bomb|V-1]] and [[V-2]] missiles.{{sfn|Wolmar|2005|p=286}}{{#tag:ref|The entertainer [[Jerry Springer]] was born whilst his mother was sheltering at the station in 1944.<ref>{{cite news|last=Nathan|first=John|title=Interview: Jerry Springer|url=http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/15740/interview-jerry-springer|newspaper=[[The Jewish Chronicle|The Jewish Chronicle Online]]|date=2 July 2009}}</ref>|group="n"}}
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===Post-war===
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After the war, plans to complete the Northern Heights project were reviewed. In early 1946, the conversion of the LNER line from Mill Hill East to Edgware was scheduled by the LPTB for completion between January 1947 and June 1948.{{sfn|Beard|2002|p=118}} No work was carried out as maintenance works and reconstruction of war damage on the existing network had the greatest call on London Underground funds. Funds for new works were severely limited and priority was given to the completion of the western and eastern extensions of the [[Central line (London Underground)|Central line]] to [[West Ruislip tube station|West Ruislip]], [[Epping tube station|Epping]] and [[Hainault tube station|Hainault]].{{sfn|Bownes|Green|Mullins|2012|p=173}} Despite being shown as under construction on Underground maps as late as 1950,{{#tag:ref|Shown as "under construction", the Northern Heights extensions appeared for the first time on Underground poster maps in 1937 and pocket maps in 1938.{{sfn|Beard|2002|pp=56–57}}<ref name=maps3845>{{cite web |url=http://www.eplates.info/maps/LU1938-1945.html |title=London Transport Underground Maps 1938–1945 |access-date=29 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924001524/http://www.eplates.info/maps/LU1938-1945.html |archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> After the opening of the tube platforms at Highgate and the extensions to High Barnet and Mill Hill East, the uncompleted remainder of the works were removed from the map between 1943 and 1945.<ref name=maps3845/> The Mill Hill East to Edgware and Edgware to Bushey Heath sections appeared on the map again from 1946 to 1949 and the Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace section appeared from 1946 to 1950.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eplates.info/maps/LU1946-1947.html |title=London Transport Underground Maps 1946–1947 |access-date=29 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924001525/http://www.eplates.info/maps/LU1946-1947.html |archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eplates.info/maps/LU1948-1956.html |title=London Transport Underground Maps 1948–1956 |access-date=29 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924001526/http://www.eplates.info/maps/LU1948-1956.html |archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref>|group="n"}} work never restarted on the unimplemented parts of the Northern Heights project.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=152}}{{#tag:ref|The section of the extension between [[Brockley Hill tube station|Brockley Hill]] and Bushey Heath was cancelled in October 1950,{{sfn|Beard|2002|p=126}} leaving the section between Edgware and Brockley Hill and the conversion of the line from Mill Hill East to Edgware to be decided. The announcement of its cancellation was finally made in February 1954.{{sfn|Beard|2002|p=127}}|group="n"}}

After a temporary closure between October 1951 and January 1952, [[British Railways]] (the successor to the LNER) ran the last passenger services between Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace on 3 July 1954.<ref name=dshs/> British Railways freight traffic continued to pass through the station until 1964.<ref name=dshs/>{{#tag:ref|Freight services continued on the Alexandra Palace branch until 1957, the High Barnet branch until 1962 and the Edgware branch until 1964.<ref name=dshs/>|group="n"}} After freight traffic ceased, the line continued to be used for occasional London Underground rolling stock transfers between Highgate depot and the Northern City line, with the stock being pulled over the unelectrified lines by [[battery locomotive]]s. This ceased in 1970, due to the poor condition of some of the intermediate bridges, and the track was lifted through the surface platforms in 1972.<ref name=dshs/>

Completion of the station buildings was delayed for many years. Designed by the architect [[Charles Holden]],<ref name=pastscape>{{PastScape |num=509354 |desc=Highgate High Level Station |access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> the pre-war plans included a large entrance building at the top of the hill next to ''The Woodman'' [[public house]] with a pair of escalators between the entrance and the sub-surface concourse. These were to be enclosed in an inclined structure down the side of the cutting parallel with the surface tracks. Taking inspiration from the [[Whittington Stone|local legend]], the building would have been topped by a statue of [[Dick Whittington and His Cat|Dick Whittington and his cat]].<ref>Contemporary artist's illustration of the proposed station buildings. {{harvnb|Day|Reed|2010|p=138}}.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Taking inspiration from local history, Charles Holden commissioned the sculptor [[Eric Aumonier]] to provide the ''Archer'' sculpture at East Finchley station,{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=131}} and planned a sculpture of a Roman centurion at the unbuilt [[Elstree South tube station|Elstree South]] station.{{sfn|Beard|2002|p=82}}|group="n"}} When works were finished in 1957, a single and upwards only escalator was provided to take passengers from the sub-surface ticket hall up to a simple exit at the top of the cutting.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ltmcollection.org/photos/photo/photo.html?_IXSR_=Cg7EkVROUwX&_IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=1998/86922&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=1529/5&_IXFIRST_=1 |title=Photograph details: 1998/86922 |publisher=[[London Transport Museum]] |date=September 1957 |access-date=30 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://content.tfl.gov.uk/step-free-tube-guide-map.pdf |title=Step-free Tube Guide |publisher= [[Transport for London]] |date=December 2023 |access-date=8 February 2024}}</ref>

One of the GNR's station buildings remains on the north side of the surface platforms: it is used as a private residence.{{sfn|Pedroche|2011|p=99}} Much of the route between Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace now forms part of the [[Parkland Walk]], although this bypasses the station site for safety reasons.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.islington.gov.uk/sports-parks-and-trees/nature-reserves/parkland-walk |title=Parkland Walk |publisher=[[London Borough of Islington]] |access-date=5 November 2017 |archive-date=31 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031052326/https://www.islington.gov.uk/sports-parks-and-trees/nature-reserves/parkland-walk |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 2 May 2023, a fire broke out in the ground-level station.<ref name="Raffray 2023 o865">{{cite web | last=Raffray | first=Nathalie | title=Fire crews tackle blaze between Highgate and Archway | website=Ham & High | date=2 May 2023 | url=https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/23495530.fire-crews-tackle-blaze-highgate-archway/ | access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref>

=== Current station ===
The current station consists of a central subterranean ticket hall, with [[escalators]] leading down to 2 separate 9-car long platforms. The stairs to the closed surface platforms have been blocked off from the public areas of the station by a staff room. There are 2 entrances to the station: one leading to Priory Gardens on the east and the [[Archway Road]] to the south. This entrance is directly opposite the Jacksons Lane Arts Centre. There is also a one-way escalator leading to a simple exit north of the station.

==Services and connections==
===Services===
Highgate station is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line between [[East Finchley tube station|East Finchley]] to the north and [[Archway tube station|Archway]] to the south.<ref>{{cite map/Standard Tube Map}}</ref> Train frequencies vary throughout the day, but generally operate every 3–7 minutes between 06:01 and 01:01 northbound and 05:37 and 00:18 southbound (as of 2015).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/timetable/northern?FromId=940GZZLUHGT&ToId=940GZZLUEFY&SelectedTime=6 | title=Northern line timetable: From Highgate Underground Station to East Finchley Underground Station | publisher= [[Transport for London]] |access-date=30 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/timetable/northern?FromId=940GZZLUHGT&ToId=940GZZLUACY&SelectedTime=5 | title=Northern line timetable: From Highgate Underground Station to Archway Underground Station | publisher= [[Transport for London]] |access-date=30 August 2015}}</ref>

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===Connections===
As of 2024, [[London Buses|London Bus]] routes [[London Buses route 43|43]], [[London Buses route 134|134]], [[London Buses route 234|234]] and night bus route [[London Buses route N20|N20]] serve the station.<ref name=busroute1>{{cite web |url=https://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/bus-route-maps/highgate-station-260714.pdf |title=Buses from Highgate Station (Highgate Wood) |publisher= [[Transport for London]] |date=26 July 2014 |access-date=28 February 2015}}</ref><ref name=busroute2>{{cite web |url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/940GZZLUHGT/highgate-underground-station |title=Highgate Underground Station – Bus |publisher=[[Transport for London]] |access-date=11 February 2015}}</ref>

==Use in media==
The disused platforms and tunnels have sometimes been used for filming. They have appeared in several productions, including the feature film ''[[Paperhouse (film)|Paperhouse]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php/component/films/?task=view&id=1520&film_ref=paperhouse |title=Paperhouse |publisher=Reel Streets: World Film Locations |access-date=30 August 2015}}</ref> and the television series ''[[Waking the Dead (TV series)|Waking the Dead]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Northern_Heights_3.html |title=Northern Heights: Crouch End – Highgate |publisher=Abandoned Tube Stations |access-date=30 August 2015}}</ref>

==Births==
[[Jerry Springer]], mayor of [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], and later a TV host, was born at Highgate tube station in 1944 during a [[World War II]] [[Strategic bombing|bombing raid]] by the [[Luftwaffe]].<ref name="jconline">{{cite news |last=Nathan |first=John |date=July 2, 2009 |title=Interview tube stat: Jerry Springer |url=http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/15740/interview-jerry-springer |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204123730/http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/15740/interview-jerry-springer |archive-date=4 February 2012 |access-date=2 August 2010 |newspaper=[[The JC]]}}</ref>

==Notes and references==

===Notes===
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===References===
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===Bibliography===
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*{{cite book |last=Badsey-Ellis |first=Antony |title=Building London's Underground: From Cut-and Cover to Crossrail |year=2016 |publisher=Capital Transport |isbn=978-1-8541-4397-6 }}
*{{cite book |last=Beard |first=Tony |title=By Tube Beyond Edgware |publisher=Capital Transport |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-85414-246-7 }}
*{{cite book |last=Bownes |first=David |last2=Green |first2=Oliver |last3=Mullins |first3=Sam |year=2012 |title=Underground: How the Tube Shaped London |publisher=Allen Lane |isbn=978-1-846-14462-2 }}
*{{cite book |last=Day |first=John R |last2=Reed |first2=John |orig-year=1963 |year=2010 |edition=11th |title=The Story of London's Underground |publisher=Capital Transport |isbn=978-1-85414-341-9 }}
*{{cite book |last=Horne |first=Mike |title=The Northern Line: An Illustrated History |orig-year=1990 |year=2009 |edition=3rd |publisher=Capital Transport |isbn=978-1-85414-326-6 }}
*{{cite book |last=Pedroche |first=Ben |year=2011 |title=Do Not Alight Here: Walking London's Lost Underground and Railway Stations |publisher=Capital History |isbn=978-1-85414-352-5 }}
*{{cite book |last=Rose |first=Douglas |title=The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History |year=1999 |orig-year=1980 |edition=7th |publisher=Douglas Rose/Capital Transport |isbn=978-1-85414-219-1}}
*{{cite book |last=Wolmar |first=Christian |author-link = Christian Wolmar |title = The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever |publisher = Atlantic Books |orig-year=2004 |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-84354-023-6}}
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==External links==
{{commons category|Highgate tube station}}
* [https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs London Transport Museum Photographic Archive]
** {{LTM archive|1998-86822|Entrance to LNER station in 1935}}
** {{LTM archive|1998-56412|Shepherd's Hill entrance in 1955}}
** {{LTM archive|1998-54479|Priory Gardens entrance in 1955}} Buildings on Archway Road are visible beyond, showing depth of cutting in which the surface station was built.

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