The original timber and glass doors and surrounds, the former with marginal lights, paterae, and bronze fittings survive as do the timber shop fronts. The entrance doors are paired on either side of a two central shop units, although only one pair is now used. This is surmounted by iron railings in a neo-classical design which support an original 'UndergrounD' roundel, the colonnade's parapet dipping neatly to incorporate its circular shape. Characteristically for its designer, the entrance to the station has a Portland stone Doric colonnade with paired columns. In common with neighbouring stations on this north-western branch of the line, the station was built to designs by Stanley Heaps, architect to London Underground.ĮXTERIOR: Neo-Georgian style, built of narrow red Dorking bricks with a pyramidal tiled roof. Minor later alterations.īrent Cross (originally just Brent) Station opened on 19 November 1923 and formed part of the extension of what is now the Northern Line. Underground railway station, 1923 by Stanley Heaps. Zone 3.īrent Cross Underground Station and Parade of Shops, Barnet
Ticket barriers and info about the tube strikes (the late August 2015 strikes have been postponed). So we got a tube to Camden Town, then changed, and went to Brent Cross. Getting here, we went to Warren Street, but there wasn't an Edgware Branch - Northern Line train heading from there in the morning. Brent Cross Underground Station - ticket barriers and the Tube strikes
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