Old Street station

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Old Street
London Underground National Rail
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Station entrance
Old Street is located in Central London
Old Street

Location of Old Street in Central London
Location Old Street
Local authority Islington
Managed by London Underground
Station code OLD
Number of platforms 4
Fare zone 1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2008 Increase 19.240 million[1]
2009 Increase 19.608 million[2]
2010 Increase 20.050 million[3]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2007–08 Increase 0.813 million[4]
2008–09 Increase 0.828 million[4]
2009–10 Increase 1.327 million[4]
2010–11 Increase 1.435 million[4]
1901 Opened (C&SLR)
1904 Opened (GN&CR)
Lists of stations
External links

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Portal icon UK Railways portalCoordinates: 51°31′33″N 0°05′14″W / 51.52581°N 0.08709°W / 51.52581; -0.08709

Old Street station is a central London National Rail and London Underground station located at the junction of Old Street and City Road just north of the City of London. It lies close to the border between the boroughs of Islington and Hackney. The station is in Travelcard Zone 1.

The station is on the Bank branch of London Underground's Northern Line, between Moorgate and Angel stations. It is also between Moorgate and Essex Road stations on National Rail's Northern City Line, operated by First Capital Connect. Although a through station on this route, for ticketing purposes it is considered a central London railway terminus.[5]

At the surface, the station is situated under the eastern edge of the busy Old Street roundabout, where Old Street crosses City Road. There is no ground-level station building, access being by ramps and stairs to a modern station entrance which is part of a small shopping parade beneath the roundabout. The original ground-level buildings were removed when the roundabout was constructed. The station has toilets, but they are not open late into the evening. On the Northern Line between Old Street and Angel stations is the disused tube station City Road.

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History [edit]

The station was originally opened in November 1901 by the first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, as part of an extension of its line from Moorgate to Angel. The Northern City Line platforms were opened in February 1904 by the Great Northern & City Railway which built its tunnels to a larger diameter capable of accommodating main line trains in the hope of carrying trains from its northern terminus at the Great Northern Railway's Finsbury Park station to Moorgate. This eventually happened in the 1970s, with the line becoming a BR route, with through services to Hertford and Welwyn Garden City. During the 1920s the station was rebuilt when escalators (1 & 2) replaced the lift shaft in accessing the platform tunnels. Between 1967 and 1969 the station was once again modified, the surface building was replaced with the current sub-surface structure situated in the centre of the roundabout and an additional escalator shaft (3) was added. During the 1990s the effects of corrosion caused by excessive soil acidity[6] required a section of the cast iron running tunnel lining in the Northern Line, south of Old Street, to be re-lined with stainless steel tunnel segments.[7]

Gallery [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Old Street railway station

  • Northern line platform 1 looking south

  • Northern Line platform 1 looking north

  • Roundel on northbound Northern line platform

  • Northbound Great Northern (First Capital Connect) platform looking north. Note large 16 ft (mainline) tube tunnel diameter ahead

  • Station sign on northbound First Capital Connect platform, in the old Network Southeast style

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Customer metrics: entries and exits: 2008". London Underground performance update. Transport for London. Retrieved 26 December 2012. 
  2. ^ "Customer metrics: entries and exits: 2009". London Underground performance update. Transport for London. Retrieved 26 December 2012. 
  3. ^ "Customer metrics: entries and exits: 2010". London Underground performance update. Transport for London. Retrieved 26 December 2012. 
  4. ^ a b c d "Station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. 30 April 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2011.  Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  5. ^ "Section A". National Fares Manual 98. Association of Train Operating Companies. Retrieved 2 January 2010. [dead link]
  6. ^ Rainey, T.P. and Rosenbaum, M.S., 1989. The adverse influence of geology and groundwater on the behaviour of London Underground railway tunnels near Old Street station. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 100, 123–134, ISSN 0016 7878.
  7. ^ Northern Line tunnel reconstruction at Old Street; authors: N. Burgess; J. Fagents; J. Paterson: Proceedings of the ICE - Transport, Volume 153, Issue 1, 1 February 2002, pages 1 –11, ISSN: 0965-092X.

Transport links [edit]

London bus routes 21, 43, 55, 76, 135, 141, 205, 214, 243, 271 and 394 Night routes N35, N55, N76.

External links [edit]

Preceding station   Underground no-text.svg London Underground   Following station
Northern line
Bank branch
towards Morden (via Bank)
National Rail National Rail
London Moorgate   First Capital Connect
Northern City Line
Monday-Friday only		   Essex Road
    Former Route (1901-22)    
Preceding station   Underground no-text.svg London Underground   Following station
Northern line
towards Morden
    Abandoned plans    
Preceding station   Underground no-text.svg London Underground   Following station
towards Bushey Heath
 Northern line
Terminus
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