Moorgate station
London Underground and railway station in Moorgate, London Borough of City of London, England, UK / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moorgate station is a central London National Rail and London Underground station in the City of London. It is on Moorgate, north of London Wall. At one time the station was named "Moorgate Street". It is the central London railway terminus for suburban First Capital Connect services from Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth. Until March 2009 it was also a terminus for trains on the Thameslink line, also run by First Capital Connect. It is the site of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975 in which 46 people were killed and 74 were injured.[7]
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Location | Moorgate |
Local authority | City of London |
Managed by | London Underground |
Station code | MOG |
Number of platforms | 8 |
Fare zone | 1 |
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1865 | Opened (MR) |
1900 | Opened (C&SLR) |
1904 | Opened (GN&CR) |
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WGS84 | 51.5186°N 0.0886°W / 51.5186; -0.0886 |
The Underground station is on the Bank branch of the Northern line between Old Street and Bank, and also on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, between Barbican and Liverpool Street.