Editing London Borough of Barnet (section)

===Rail===
[[File:BarnetLU.png|right|thumb|London Underground services in Barnet]]
The borough is served by the northernmost sections of the [[London Underground]]'s [[Northern line]], including all three of the line's northern termini (Edgware, High Barnet, and Mill Hill East). The surface sections of the High Barnet and Edgware branches are entirely in the borough. The High Barnet branch surfaces just before [[East Finchley tube station|East Finchley station]]. At [[Finchley Central tube station|Finchley Central station]] there is a single-station spur to [[Mill Hill East tube station|Mill Hill East station]]. The rest of the line continues north through [[West Finchley tube station|West Finchley]], [[Woodside Park tube station|Woodside Park]] and [[Totteridge and Whetstone tube station|Totteridge and Whetstone]] stations to the terminus at [[High Barnet tube station|High Barnet station]].

The Edgware branch emerges at [[Golders Green tube station|Golders Green station]]; the line continues on a series of viaducts through [[Brent Cross tube station|Brent Cross station]] to [[Hendon Central tube station|Hendon Central station]]. Here it goes through a tunnel before continuing above ground through [[Colindale tube station|Colindale]] and [[Burnt Oak tube station|Burnt Oak]] stations to the terminus at [[Edgware tube station|Edgware station]]. The [[Piccadilly line]], although in the Borough of Enfield, is very close to the border, with buses in Barnet connecting people to the stations.

There are two [[National Rail]] routes in Barnet. The [[Midland Main Line]] passes through the western edge of the borough, and is served by [[Thameslink and Great Northern|Thameslink]] at (from north to south): [[Mill Hill Broadway railway station|Mill Hill Broadway]], [[Hendon railway station|Hendon]] and [[Cricklewood railway station|Cricklewood]]. The [[East Coast Main Line]] crosses the north-eastern corner of the borough, and is served by the [[Great Northern Route]] at [[New Barnet railway station|New Barnet]], [[Oakleigh Park railway station|Oakleigh Park]] and [[New Southgate railway station|New Southgate]] (which straddles the border with the [[London Borough of Enfield]]).

There was a railway line joining the two sides of the borough, part of the [[Edgware, Highgate and London Railway]] which was going to be part of the Underground's Northern line "Northern Heights" expansion, but steam passenger services beyond Mill Hill East ended in 1939, and the completion of the electrification of this railway was eventually abandoned in the 1950s, primarily because the full extension would have breached the [[Town and Country Planning Act 1947]] ([[10 & 11 Geo. 6]]. c. 51).{{citation needed|date=February 2024}} What track was laid, was removed in the 1960s, with a small part of the trackbed used for the [[M1 motorway]] extension in the 1970s.