Liverpool Street station
Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a major railway station in the City of London. It is the southern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML), and is connected to a London Underground station of the same name.
Liverpool Street    | |
|---|---|
| London Liverpool Street | |
 Main station concourse | |
  Liverpool Street Location of Liverpool Street in Central London | |
| Location | Bishopsgate |
| Local authority | City of London |
| Managed by | Network Rail |
| Station code | LST |
| DfT category | A |
| Number of platforms | 18 |
| Accessible | Yes[1] |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| OSI | Bank   Fenchurch Street [2] |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2013–14 |  63.004 million[3] |
| – interchange | 2.912 million[3] |
| 2014–15 | 63.631 million[3] |
| – interchange | 3.144 million[3] |
| 2015–16 | 66.557 million[3] |
| – interchange |  2.481 million[3] |
| 2016–17 | 67.339 million[3] |
| – interchange | 2.745 million[3] |
| Railway companies | |
| Original company | Great Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London & North Eastern Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 1874 | Opened |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| WGS84 | 51°31′07″N 0°04′53″W / 51.5186°N 0.0813°W |
Liverpool Street the main departure point from London to the East of England. It serves those places not served by the East Coast Main Line from King's Cross. It has commuter service to parts of East London and Essex, such as Chelmsford, Clacton-on-Sea, Witham and Norwich. It serves the London Stansted Airport via the Stansted Express.
It is one of the busiest stations in the United Kingdom, the third busiest in London after Waterloo and Victoria. Over 123 million people use the station each year. It is one of 17 managed by Network Rail. The station has exits to Bishopsgate, Liverpool Street and the Broadgate development. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.
Gallery
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roundel on Central line platform -
Eastbound Central line platform with projected adverts -
Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City line platforms looking clockwise -
Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City line platforms looking anticlockwise -
A National Express East Anglia Class 90 unit at Liverpool Street station.
References
change- ↑ "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.
- ↑ "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLSX). Transport for London. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
- David Stevenson (2004). 1914-1918 The History of the First World War. Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9208-5.
- Alan A Jackson (1969). London's Termini. David & Charles. ISBN 0-330-02747-6.
Other websites
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Media related to Liverpool Street station at Wikimedia Commons
- Station information on Liverpool Street station from Network Rail
- Old Liverpool Street Archived 2008-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Tribute to the old decor.
- BBC Panorama programme featuring Liverpool Street station
- Daily Telegraph article about the furor following the "Dirty War" documentary featuring Liverpool St. Archived 2008-04-06 at the Wayback Machine
- David Blunkett condemns docudrama Archived 2013-01-14 at Archive.today
- London Landscape TV episode (7 mins) about Liverpool Street station Archived 2011-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Alternative view of the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan line platforms
- Cut away diagram[permanent dead link] showing the London Underground station layout in 3d post CrossRail.
