Hendon - Transport

Transport

Hendon is served by Hendon Central tube station on the Edgware Branch of the Northern Line and by Hendon railway station on National Rail First Capital Connect line, as well as by numerous bus routes. Buses come and go from Brent Cross Shopping Centre, London's West End and the new Wembley National Stadium. Buses run as far south as Central London, and as far north as Watford Junction

Numerous minicab companies operate within Hendon. Main routes which pass through Hendon are the A1 (Great North Road) A41 (North Western Avenue) also at various stretches called Hendon Way and Watford Way, and this intersects with the A406 (North Circular Road) at a junction called, also a known traffic blackspot.

Further north is the site of Hendon Aerodrome in an area of Hendon now know as Colindale, famous for the first airmail delivery; the first parachute descent from a powered aircraft; the first night flights; and, from RAF Hendon during World War II the RAF provided the first aerial defence of a city. It is believed that the first casualty in the Battle of Britain was an RAF Hurricane pilot from Hendon. It closed to flying in 1968 and is now the site of the RAF Museum, as well as the housing developments at Grahame Park and Beaufort Park.