The section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchley was incorporated into the London Underground network through the "Northern Heights" project begun in the late 1930s.

British Railways (the successor to the LNER) freight trains continued to serve the station's goods yard until 1 October 1962, when it was closed.

[9] The Provisional IRA exploded a bomb at the station's car park on 10 December 1992, during the afternoon rush hour.

The station is close to the Inglis Barracks, where a British soldier was killed by an IRA bombing in 1988.

The station has a large adjacent area, originally for storing coal and now used as a car park.