Cannon Street Station

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Cannon Street is a train station 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, between the north bank of the Thames and Cannon Street. In 2014, 20.689 million rail passengers used the station, plus 5.30 million underground passengers.

railroad

investment

Cannon Street train station as seen from London Bridge

Immediately after leaving the terminus , the tracks cross the Thames on the Cannon Street Railway Bridge . The access route branches off on the other side of the river at a triangular track that is on the South Eastern Main Line between Charing Cross and London Bridge stations . Originally there were eight platforms, but in the late 1990s, platform 1 was removed during renovation work. There is one entrance each on Cannon Street (north side) and Dowgate Hill (west side).

The station is served by Southeastern trains, which operate to the south-east of London. There are also direct trains to Kent and East Sussex , but only during rush hour. Cannon Street is one of 18 UK train stations managed by the infrastructure company Network Rail .

history

Front facade of the former station building
View of the old train station from the bridge

The South Eastern Railway opened the station on September 1, 1866. It was built on the site of the former Stalhof , the London office of the Hanseatic League . Designed by John Hawkshaw and John Wolfe-Barry , the approximately 210-meter-long building originally consisted of a single, almost semicircular vault made of glass and steel between two 37-meter-high towers, supported by a brick viaduct over Upper Thames Street. In 1867 the five-story City Terminus Hotel , designed by Edward Middleton Barry in the neo-renaissance style with Italian influences, was added to form the front.

In 1926, three years after taking over the South Eastern Railway, the Southern Railway carried out various renovations and alterations. She reduced the number of tracks from nine to eight (with five reserved for electric trains) and removed the signal box that had spanned the track field like a bridge. The City Terminus Hotel suffered severe damage from air raids during World War II . The glass roof had been removed before the outbreak of war, but the factory in which the components were stored was destroyed by a bomb hit.

In the mid-1950s, British Rail tried to generate more income by making better use of its central land. There were plans for a parking garage and a helipad. In March 1962, the British Transport Commission decided , in collaboration with Town & Country Properties, to build the multi-storey Poulson office building with a floor space of 14,300 m² above the station. The cost of construction was estimated at £ 2.35 million. In preparation for this, the station concourse was demolished in 1958. The hotel, which had also been used as an office building since 1931, followed in 1960. Only the two brick towers on the south side remained. These have been under monument protection ( Grade II ) since 1972 .

In 1974 the station was closed for five weeks from August 2 to September 9, 1974 due to the installation of new signal systems. During this time traffic was diverted to London Bridge, Charing Cross and Blackfriars . On March 4, 1976, a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded on an empty train that had just left the station ; eight people on a train in the opposite direction were injured. On January 8, 1991, a railway disaster, as occurred at 07:58 one of Sevenoaks not slowed coming commuter train on time and in the buffer stop driving. Two people were killed and 542 others were injured.

The 1980s saw another real estate boom and British Rail looked for ways to make better use of the station's space. Two new office buildings were built above the railway system, the Atrium Building with 18,000 m² of usable space and the River Building with 8,800 usable space. In 2007, authorities granted approval to replace the Poulson office building with a new building from Foggo Associates. The building known as Cannon Place was completed in September 2011 and has a usable area of ​​400,000 m².

Subway

Entrance to the subway on Dowgate Hill

The London Underground station is located directly below the station concourse. District Line and Circle Line trains run here . Entrances are on Cannon Street, Dowgate Hill and at the end of the concourse.

On October 6, 1884, the Metropolitan District Railway , the predecessor of today's District Line, opened the Cannon Street underground station. With the section between Mansion House and Tower Hill , the last gap in the ring route, which runs around the entire city center, was closed.

In the late 1970s there were plans to run the Jubilee Line over Cannon Street; the extension to the east, built twenty years later, now runs south of the river.

Web links

Commons : Cannon Street Station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / content.tfl.gov.uk
  2. ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Cannon Street station reopened. The Times, June 29, 1926.
  4. ↑ London Termini Bomb Damage. The Times, November 19, 1943.
  5. ^ Rebuilding of Cannon Street Station. The Times, November 17, 1955.
  6. ^ First Choice for Helicopter Site. The Times, March 3, 1962.
  7. ↑ Big New Buildings Over Two London Termini. The Times, March 22, 1962.
  8. ^ Pair of towers at Cannon Street station. (No longer available online.) In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 1, 2013 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / list.english-heritage.org.uk  
  9. ^ Cannon Street station closing for five weeks. The Times, July 29, 1974.
  10. ↑ Thirteen minutes saved hundreds on the 7.49 from Sevenoaks. The Times, March 5, 1976.
  11. ↑ On this day - 1991: One dead as train crashes into buffers. BBC News, January 8, 2005, accessed February 1, 2013 .
  12. ^ Construction Contracts: Building Over Busy Station. Financial Times, March 6, 1989.
  13. ^ Foggo wins green light for Cannon Street Station redesign. Architects Journal, March 21, 2007, accessed February 1, 2013 .
  14. ^ Hines Celebrates Completion of Cannon Place in London. Hines, September 2011, accessed February 1, 2013 .
  15. ^ District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed February 1, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Jubilee Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed February 1, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 40.9 "  N , 0 ° 5 ′ 24.7"  W.