Barbican (London Underground)
Barbican is a London Underground station in the City of London . It is located on Aldersgate Street near the Barbican Center . The Circle Line , the Hammersmith & City Line and the Metropolitan Line stop here . In 2014, 11.44 million underground passengers used the train station located in Travelcard tariff zone 1.
history
The station was opened on December 23, 1865 by the Metropolitan Railway (predecessor of the Metropolitan Line), then still under the name Aldersgate Street . This was followed by three renaming: On November 1, 1910 in Aldersgate , 1923 in Aldersgate & Barbican and on December 1, 1968 in Barbican . The Metropolitan Railway's route through the station has had four tracks since 1866. The second pair of tracks, the Widened Lines , served the suburban traffic of other railway companies in the City of London. Since 1871, a now disused connecting curve to the Snow Hill Tunnel branched off to the west of the station .
The entrance to the station is in a modern building built in the early 1990s. The platforms in an incision that is open at the top, however, are much older. You can also see an old signal house and the remains of the foundation of a glass roof that was demolished in the 1950s. The station staff has set up a showcase in the ticket hall that provides information about the history of the station.
A Widened Lines tunnel can be seen from the western end of the platform, which passes under the Smithfield meat market . Between 1869 and 1962 there was a small freight yard under the market hall; cattle destined for the slaughterhouse were transported there.
As part of the Thameslink 2000 project , rail traffic on the little-used branch line to Moorgate station was discontinued in March 2009. This should make it possible to extend the platform in Farringdon. After the completion of the Crossrail project, the construction of a S-Bahn tunnel in an east-west direction, the eastern entrance to the new underground Farringdon station will be located immediately west of the Barbican station.
Web links
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). 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.
- ^ HP White: Greater London. (= A regional history of the railways of Great Britain , Volume 3) Thomas, Nairn 1987, ISBN 0-946537-39-9 , p. 91f.
- ^ White, Greater London. , P. 89.
| Previous station | Transport for London | Next station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farringdon | Circle Line | Moor gate | ||
| Hammersmith & City Line | ||||
| Metropolitan Line | ||||
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '14 " N , 0 ° 5' 52" W.