It is on the north side of Totteridge Lane (A5109), to the east of the Dollis Brook, the traditional boundary between Totteridge and Whetstone, so narrowly in the latter.[8]
After the 1921 Railways Act created the Big Four railway companies the line was, from 1923, part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). The section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchley was incorporated into the London Underground network through the "Northern Heights" project which began in the late 1930s. Totteridge and Whetstone station was first served by Northern line trains on 14 April 1940[10] and, after a period where the station was serviced by both operators, LNER services ended in 1941.[9]
British Railways (the successor to the LNER) freight trains continued to serve the station's goods yard until 1 October 1962, when it was closed and converted into station’s car park.[6]
Station facilities
The station retains much of its original Victorian architectural character today.[11] The station is not wheelchair accessible[12] owing to flights of stairs to the two platforms.
The station has in the 21st century undergone subtle changes to enable the policy of no ticket offices, chiefly:
an automatic double-wide access, disabled and buggy-friendly barrier
A help desk instead of the ticket office.
The station is not often staffed but is during peak hours. The station has a passenger hall, four gates, two toilets (a female toilet on the southbound platform and a male toilet on the northbound platform), a car park and waiting rooms.[13]
Services and connections
The typical offpeak service at this station in trains per hour is as follows:[14][15]
^ ab"News Flashes"(PDF). Underground: The Journal of the London Underground Railway Society (12): 7. December 1962. Archived from the original(PDF) on 21 December 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
