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The Northern Line has been extended from Kennington to Battersea Power Station via Nine Elms +6 View gallery Transport for London said the extension will support around 25,000 new jobs and. Plans to extend the line into Lynn were spiked in the 1970's. (File photo) LYNN Extension of the MBTA's Blue Line from Revere to Central Square was within reach in the 1970s until Mayor . "Ahead of the opening of the Elizabeth line next year, these upgrades extend vital connectivity across the greatest city in the world and show the power of transport connections.". Concern was raised about the safety of the Tube, given the derailment at Chancery Lane earlier in 2003. It will run to two new stations, Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station. [19] Five new stations were built to pavilion-style designs by Stanley Heaps, head of the Underground's Architects Office, stimulating the rapid northward expansion of suburban developments in the following years. [30] The line gained the nickname "Misery Line" due to its perceived unreliability. The line's northern termini, all in the London Borough of Barnet, are at Edgware and High Barnet; Mill Hill East is the terminus of a single-station branch line off the High Barnet branch. Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, said: "London's world-famous Tube network has two new stations from today, the first stops to be added so far this century, with names that will soon become familiar to Londoners as they return to public transport after the pandemic. The station has been designed so that 479 new much-needed rental homes, 40 per cent of which will be affordable, can be delivered above and around it. The Northern Line being extended to Clapham Junction is an option being considered as part of a masterplan for the south London area. Councillor Ravi Govindia, Leader of Wandsworth Council and Co-chair of the Nine Elms Vauxhall Partnership, said: "Travelling on the Northern Line Extension as it opened its doors today, and seeing excited passengers use these stations for the first time, is a once-in-a-lifetime moment that I will never forget. Work on the extension from Edgware to Bushey Heath including work on a viaduct and a tunnel started in June 1939, but was stopped after war broke out. The project involved electrification of the surface lines (operated by steam trains at the time), the doubling of the original single-line section between Finchley Central and the proposed junction with the Edgware branch of the Northern line, and the construction of three new linking sections of track: a connection between Northern City Line and Finsbury Park station on the surface; an extension from Archway to the LNER line near East Finchley via new deep-level platforms below Highgate station; and a short diversion from just before the LNER's Edgware station to the Underground's station of the same name.