Farringdon Railway Station
The Farringdon Station is a train station in the district London Borough of Islington . It is located in a cut on Farringdon Road, right on the border with the City of London . The Circle Line , Hammersmith & City Line and the Metropolitan Line of London Underground stop here . In addition, Thameslink trains operated by Govia Thameslink Railway run to Bedford , Luton , Brighton and Sutton . In 2016, 15.8 million subway passengers used the station in tariff zone 1, plus 12.045 million rail passengers.
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The route from Farringdon to King's Cross Station runs along the River Fleet , which was capped in 1812. The station building was built in 1922 according to plans by Charles Walter Clark , is one of the best preserved from this era and is a Grade II listed building. The old station name Farringdon & High Holborn can still be seen on the facade . A label "Parcel Office" testifies to the (ultimately failed) ambitions of the Metropolitan Railway (predecessor of the Metropolitan Line) to become a major railway company.
On the Thameslink line at Farringdon station, the system changes from the DC voltage system in the south (750 V) to the AC voltage system in the north (25 kV, 50 Hz). That is why the Thameslink tracks in the platform area are equipped with both a conductor rail and an overhead contact line , and ironing is carried out accordingly at the stop. In the direction of Moorgate (Thameslink) there was also AC operation, so that no multi-system vehicles were required here. The subways use the usual DC voltage of 630 V, there is no system transition to the railroad.
history
The station opened on January 10, 1863 as the eastern terminus of the first section of the Metropolitan Railway , the world's oldest subway line. At that time it was called Farringdon Street and was a little west of the current location. On December 23, 1865, when the Metropolitan Railway opened the extension to Moorgate , it moved the station to its current location. On January 26, 1922, on the occasion of the opening of the new station building, it was renamed Farringdon & High Holborn and on April 21, 1936, it received the name that is still valid today.
On January 1, 1866, the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened the Snow Hill Tunnel leading towards Blackfriars . Between 1866 and 1868, the Metropolitan Railway added another pair of tracks, the Widened Lines, to its route between King's Cross and Moorgate . On her suburban trains operated by other railway companies in the City of London. The Great Northern Railway opened the Farringdon freight yard on November 2, 1874. It was on a narrow strip of land west of the passenger station. Around 1891, 13 freight trains ran daily to this station, 12 of them at night. 600 tons of goods were handled every day, a large part of which were fish, vegetables and potatoes, which were intended for the market in Covent Garden , among other things . The freight yard was badly damaged in German air raids in 1941 and shut down in January 1956. The warehouse was demolished in 1988; an office building was built in its place until 1992.
Passenger traffic through the Snow Hill Tunnel was discontinued in 1916 and resumed in May 1988 as part of the new Thameslink connection. The Widened Lines to Moorgate were closed on March 20, 2009 to create enough space for an extension of the platforms in Farringdon; Since then, these can accommodate 12-car trains.
Projects
Especially during rush hour , the station is very busy and has reached its capacity limits. Its capacity was increased as part of the Thameslink 2000 project. The existing station building was also renovated and supplemented with a new canopy, which spans the northern end of all four platforms. The platforms in turn were lengthened and widened. Opposite the station building, a new entrance building was erected on Cowcross Street, and the area in between was converted into a pedestrian zone. Since it opened in 2011, it has been handling the additional traffic.
A new underground station is currently being built between Farringdon and Barbican underground stations for Crossrail , a S-Bahn-like west-east connection through central London. It is expected to open in December 2019 and will offer transfer options to both stations. Access at the Farringdon end is through the new Thameslink reception building. Farringdon will be the only way to transfer between Thameslink and Crossrail and will become a major transport hub.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNTS - 2016 - annual entries & exits. (Excel) (No longer available online.) Transport for London , 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 1, 2018 (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.
- ↑ Estimates of station usage, 2016/17 data. (Excel) Office of Rail and Road , 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ^ Entry in the British list of monuments
- ↑ a b Farringdon Road. In: Philip Temple (ed.): South and East Clerkenwell (= Survey of London , Volume 46) Yale University Press, New Haven 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-13727-9 , pp. 358-384. ( online ( memento of the original from September 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , accessed on July 8, 2013).
- ↑ Ludwig Troske : The London Underground. (Reprint of the Springer edition, Berlin 1892) VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-18-400724-3 , p. 76f.
- ^ Moorgate (Widened Lines platforms). Disused stations site record, May 21, 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Farringdon station: London's newest transport hub. Network Rail , 2012, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ^ Farringdon station. Crossrail, 2018, accessed April 1, 2018 .
| Previous station | National Rail | Next train station | ||
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| St Pancras |
Govia Thameslink Railway Thameslink |
City Thameslink | ||
| Previous station | Crossrail | Next train station | ||
| Tottenham Court Road | Elizabeth Line (from 2018) |
Liverpool Street | ||
| Previous station | London Underground | Next station | ||
| King's Cross St. Pancras | Circle Line | Barbican | ||
| Hammersmith & City Line | ||||
| Metropolitan Line | ||||
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 14 ″ N , 0 ° 6 ′ 19 ″ W.