Colindale station gets approval for station rebuild

[LUYMun]

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London Underground gets approval for Colindale station rebuild
A radical rebuild of Colindale tube station on the Northern line has been approved by Barnet Council.

The old ticket hall will be demolished, and a completely new station building with an enlarged ticket hall – around double the size of the existing space.

Although it will be surrounded on both sides by two tall towers, the station itself will be freestanding, and the design, by the curved wooden roofline takes its inspiration from early aircraft design at the nearby Hendon Aerodrome.

The station will be built on a new slab over the rail tracks, allowing for the existing bridge to be removed and the pavement in front of the station widened.

A total of £5 million in funding from TfL’s Growth Fund has been allocated for the new station building with step-free access and new pedestrian and cycle links. The project will cost in total some £22 million, so the remainder of the cost comes from the housing development.

The new ticket hall will come with nine ticket barriers (compared to 5 at the moment), and the introduction of step-free access to platform level with the provision of a new lift, which will sit between the two existing staircases down to the platform level.

Although planning is granted, TfL is currently reviewing the applications to build the development, so work on the new station is unlikely to start until 2021, with completion of the station rebuild in 2022.

The proposals are also subject to approval from the Mayor of London.

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Pretty hideous, but then same goes for the whole area with an absolutely grotesque amount of new flats going up, with many more to come. In the space of a decade the area has gone from a quiet suburb to being rather troublesome.

The only saving grace is we’re not losing anything of merit (apart from perhaps the platform canopy?), with the original building having been destroyed in WW2. I love the comment about the design of the original building having been intended to act as inspiration for the type of development, one wonders what those behind this would make of what has become of the area since the millennium?!

I can see over time this station could become the main traffic generator on the Edgware branch, there seeming to be no limit on the amount and density of flats they seem to want to stuff into the area.

 

[Enthusiast]

I used to fly a glider occasionally from RAF Hendon (only airfield circuits from a ground winch launch). I used to enjoy seeing the 1938 stock tubes emerging from the tunnels between Hendon Central and Colindale. I think many of the flats mentioned stand on the site of the airfield.

 

[bramling]

I used to fly a glider occasionally from RAF Hendon (only airfield circuits from a ground winch launch). I used to enjoy seeing the 1938 stock tubes emerging from the tunnels between Hendon Central and Colindale. I think many of the flats mentioned stand on the site of the airfield.

The early stages of the clearance of the police training ground uncovered an unexploded bomb, which very nearly shut down both the MML and the Northern Line. I was lucky enough to get an escorted visit at close range whilst preparations were being made for the controlled explosion.

There must be 1000s of flats going up on the training ground site alone. Definitely no longer a quiet tranquil suburb, not sure what the area has done to deserve such dense and expensive building.

 

[DaveB10780]

No bus stops in view though.

 

[Mikey C]

I actually rather like that design, distinctive and interesting (unlike all the flats going up). Surprising how high the roof is

I'm more concerned that the existing fleet will have to cope with both the Battersea extension and all these new flats at Colindale. The Northern Line really could have done with the extra stock it was meant to get

 

[bramling]

I actually rather like that design, distinctive and interesting (unlike all the flats going up). Surprising how high the roof is

I'm more concerned that the existing fleet will have to cope with both the Battersea extension and all these new flats at Colindale. The Northern Line really could have done with the extra stock it was meant to get

Well the extra trains are more or less dead and buried now. The station car parks which were going to become extra sidings to stable them are now up for, you guessed it, flats as part of Sadiq Khan’s obsession with housebuilding.

 

[jellybaby]

flats as part of Sadiq Khan’s obsession with housebuilding

I think it's more TfL's desperation for cash.

 

[bramling]

I think it's more TfL's desperation for cash.

Which also is at least partly down to SQ.

 

[AY1975]

The Wikipedia entry on Colindale station would appear to suggest that the existing street level building dates from 1962.

If you look at the existing building on Google Maps, it has a tower block (which might be flats or offices - I've been through Colindale but never got off there so I wouldn't know) on top of it - presumably that will also be demolished (along with the one to the left of the station building), as it doesn't appear in the artist's impression of the new building.

 

[Dstock7080]

The Wikipedia entry on Colindale station would appear to suggest that the existing street level building dates from 1962.

If you look at the existing building on Google Maps, it has a tower block (which might be flats or offices - I've been through Colindale but never got off there so I wouldn't know) on top of it - presumably that will also be demolished (along with the one to the left of the station building), as it doesn't appear in the artist's impression of the new building.

There is no structure currently on top of the station building.
The new station building will straddle the railway track, it is currently to one side.