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Today, it doesn’t approach very much, since the goods yard which served Barnet (later renamed New Barnet Station) and to which this road led, was closed in 1966. The main line of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) between Peterborough and London (Maiden Lane) was opened on August 7, 1850, and Barnet was one of the original stations on the line. On May 1, 1884, the station was renamed New Barnet. In 1896, the station was rebuilt to its modern form by re-siting the down platform opposite the existing up platform and providing a new brick structure on the new platform. On July 7, 1989, the original station booking office, mounted on the station bridge linking the platforms, was badly damaged in an arson attack. The building had just undergone an expensive restoration, which made it one of the best such structures in the London area. A Nissen hut was provided as a replacement on the western side of the station before a permanent structure was eventually provided.
