Blackfriars train station
Blackfriars is a train station in the district of the same name in the City of London , the financial district of London . The facility, which also includes an underground station for the London Underground , is located in Travelcard tariff zone 1, on the north bank of the Thames and right next to Blackfriars Bridge . In 2014, 13.14 million metro passengers used the station, plus 14.412 million rail passengers.
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Blackfriars station is a combination of a through station and a terminus station . The continuous tracks are used by the companies First Capital Connect and Southeastern . Trains run on the Thameslink route to Bedford , St Albans and Luton in the north and Brighton , Sutton and Sevenoaks in the south. All tracks on the south side of the station lead directly to the Blackfriars Railway Bridge . By March 2009, some trains turned at three head tracks, which were then removed. As a replacement, two new end tracks were built as part of the renovation work, and have been in use since May 2012 during rush hour and on weekends.
history
The first station with the name of the district Blackfriars (in German "Black Brothers", named after a former Dominican convent in the area) was on the south side of the Thames and was called Blackfriars Bridge . It was opened on June 1, 1864 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR). On December 21 of the same year, she took the Blackfriars Railway Bridge and the subsequent route over Ludgate Hill and through the Snow Hill Tunnel to Farringdon in operation. The trains did not initially stop on the north side of the bridge. On October 1, 1885, the LC&DR closed the station on the south bank (it served freight traffic until 1964). On the north bank, a new building in neo-renaissance style was built as a replacement , which was named St Paul’s and opened on May 10, 1886.
The continuous connection via Farringdon to King's Cross was abandoned in 1916. On February 1, 1937, St Paul’s station was renamed Blackfriars. In the mid-1970s it was completely modernized, and it was officially reopened on November 30, 1977. Individual stone foundations have been preserved from the original train station. By 1990, the trains that ran through Blackfriars ended a few hundred meters further north in the now demolished Holborn Viaduct station . Since the re-opening of the S-Bahn- like Thameslink route in the same year, trains have been running to King's Cross and on to the northern suburbs.
From spring 2009 to summer 2012 the station was completely rebuilt, the office building above it was demolished and replaced by a new building. The through platforms were extended to the northern part of the Blackfriars Railway Bridge to accommodate trains with twelve cars (previously eight).
Subway
Under the station is the station of the London Underground, where trains of the Circle Line and the District Line run.
The station, which in contrast to the station was always called Blackfriars, was opened on May 30, 1870 by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR), the predecessor of the District Line. Blackfriars was the eastern terminus of the line from Westminster for a little over a year . On July 3, 1871, the MDR extended its route to Mansion House . Due to the renovation of the train station, the subway station was closed on March 2, 2009 and only reopened almost three years later, on February 20, 2012.
Web links
- Departure times. (English). and travel information. (English). byNational Rail
- Track construction (1869)
- Photo of the station entrance (February 1930)
- Photo of bomb damage (October 1940)
Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNTS - 2014 - annual entries & exits. (PDF, 44 kB) (No longer available online.) Transport for London, 2015, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2017 (English).
- ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2017 (English).
- ^ Station name: Blackfriars Bridge. Disused stations site record, April 20, 2010, accessed February 5, 2013 .
- ^ Our plan for building the new London Blackfriars station. Network Rail, 2012, accessed February 5, 2013 .
- ^ District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed February 5, 2013 .
- ↑ Blackfriars Tube station reopens after three years. BBC News, February 20, 2012, accessed August 13, 2012 .
| Previous station | Transport for London | Next station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temple | Circle Line | Mansion House | ||
| District Line | ||||
| Previous station | National Rail | Next train station | ||
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City Thameslink ( Farringdon on Sundays ) |
First Capital Connect Thameslink (Bedford-Brighton) |
London Bridge | ||
|
First Capital Connect Thameslink (Sutton Loop) |
Elephant & Castle | |||
|
Southeastern Bedford – Sevenoaks |
Elephant & Castle | |||
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 0 ° 6 ′ 12.3 ″ W.