New Southgate railway station

The station is administered by the London Borough of Enfield, although the boundary with the London Borough of Barnet runs through the station, rather than along one side. The station has exits into both boroughs. ==History==

Building of the station The station opened by order of the Middlesex Justices (see Middlesex Guildhall), by the Great Northern Railway (GNR). The Justices insisted on trains stopping daily for the benefit of the Second Middlesex County Asylum opened that year at Colney Hatch, which became Friern Hospital and closed in 1993. The original booking office, which sat on a bridge across the railway lines, burned down in 1976 and was replaced by a portakabin. Service patterns The station was built next to the asylum, with a siding which connected by a tramway to the stores depot in the grounds. There was one train hourly to Hatfield in the north and to Hornsey and King's Cross in the south in 1860, when the journey to King's Cross took 18 minutes. Trains, as before, ran hourly in 1975. Operators The GNR came under the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) after "Grouping" in 1923, before British Railways took over upon nationalisation in 1948. WAGN (an acronym of West Anglia, Great Northern) operated the service from 1997 to 2006. Ticketing In autumn 2008, a self-service ticket machine widening payment methods to accept cash and debit/credit cards, was installed at the eastern street-level entrance. ==Services==

Off-peak, all services at New Southgate are operated by Great Northern using EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: • 2 tph to • 2 tph to Additional services, including a number of Thameslink operated services to and from via call at the station during the peak hours. ==Connections==

London Buses routes 221, 232, 382, SL1 and night route N91 serve the station. ==References==