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cockfosters sandbox Cockfosters is a London Underground station on the Piccadilly line, for which it is the northern terminus. The station is located on Cockfosters Road (A111) approximately nine miles (9 mi) from central London and serves Cockfosters in the London Borough of Barnet, although it is actually located a short distance across the borough boundary in the neighbouring London Borough of Enfield. The station is in Travelcard Zone 5 and the next station south-east is Oakwood.

Location
Cockfosters station is next to Trent Park, in which it would have alternatively taken its name from. Its present name was named after an area originally named Cock Fosters. It was a small village, situated as part of the Enfield Chase royal hunting ground. The station sparked development within the vicinity, spanning up to New Barnet. Recently, plans were drawn up by Transport for London (TfL) and Grainger to add new homes around the station, and is scheduled to be completed in 2025. Nearby landmarks include sports clubs and the Trent C of E School. The station has a car park, with entrances mainly on both sides of Cockfosters Road.

History
Plans for the Piccadilly line extension north from Finsbury Park existed since the 1910s to relieve overcrowding at the aforementioned station. However, a sanction that had been in place by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) forbid any extension. Upon public campaigns and parliamentary pressure, this sanction was lifted in the 1920s. Proposals were drafted, where Frank Pick, then new Assistant Managing Director of the Underground, was a major contributor. The optimal route of the extension was to be in between the GNR and Hertford line. Initial proposals did not include the station and the additional 1.35 km of tracks from Oakwood. This was amended in November 1929 so that a larger depot with two access points could be provided. Parliamentary approval for the extension was obtained on 4 June 1930, under the London Electric Metropolitan District Central London and City and South London Railway Companies Act, 1930.

Construction began swiftly, with the extension costing £4.4 million. 400 ft long platforms were originally planned for the station to fit 8-car trains, but was cut short to 385 ft when built. The station opened on 31 July 1933, the last of the stations on the extension from Finsbury Park to do so, and more than four months after Oakwood station opened.

The station today
The station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, glass and reinforced concrete. Compared with the other new stations Holden designed for the extension, Cockfosters' street buildings are modest in scale, lacking the mass of Oakwood or Arnos Grove or the avant-garde flourish of Southgate. Holden's early design sketches show the station with two towers. The most striking feature of the station is the tall concrete and glass trainshed roof and platform canopies, which are supported by portal frames of narrow blade-like concrete columns and beams rising from the platforms and spanning across the tracks. The trainshed roof constructed at Uxbridge from 1937 to 1938 was built to a similar design. Cockfosters station is a Grade II listed building.

The station has three tracks with platforms numbered 1 to 4, the centre track being served from both sides by platforms 2 and 3. This is an example of the so-called Spanish solution. Most eastbound Piccadilly trains terminate here, although some terminate at Arnos Grove or Oakwood, particularly in peak hours or in the evenings. Some trains may even terminate at Wood Green; however, this is only used very early in the morning or in emergency situations. Cockfosters depot is located between Oakwood and Cockfosters and trains can access or leave it from either direction.

Services and connections
Cockfosters station is the terminus of the Piccadilly line, with the next station to the south being Oakwood. The station is in Travelcard Zone 5, and generally gets an off-peak headway of three to five minutes. As of 2020, typical off-peak services, in trains per hour (tph) are as follows:
 * 6 tph to Uxbridge
 * 6 tph to Heathrow Terminals 2,3 and 5
 * 6 tph to Heathrow Terminals 4 and 2,3

London Buses routes 298, 384 and 299 and night route N91 serve the station.

In popular culture
Cockfosters tube station features prominently in the novel While England Sleeps by American author David Leavitt. One of the novel's protagonists is writing a book entitled The Train to Cockfosters.

A commercial for Foster's lager shown on UK television in the 1980s features Paul Hogan sitting in an Underground station near to a Japanese man who is looking at the Tube map on the wall. The man asks Hogan, "Can you tell me the way to Cockfosters?", to which Hogan replies, "Drink it warm, mate".