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TQ2687 : Surface building of the (never built) North End tube station, Hampstead Way, NW11 TQ2687 : Surface building of the (never built) North End tube station (2) TQ2687 : Surface building of the (never built) North End tube station (3) TQ2687 : Sign on the surface building of the (never built) North End tube station
The never-opened North End tube station

Revealed in some detail on "Secrets of the London Underground" broadcast on the 'Yesterday Channel' for the first time on the 26th July 2021. Yerkes, the promoter of the line to Golders Green, planned to buy 80 acres of land on the edge of Hampstead Heath to develop, but a local lady bought it from Eton College instead and gave it to the nation as the Hampstead Heath Extension. So the station was never built in full.

In the 1950s a vertical shaft was dug down from the surface and the station area used as a protected control centre for flood gates around the underground/tube system to be closed in time of war. But it only served this function for a few years as nuclear weapons became larger and rendered such precautions pointless.

John Webb