London Liverpool Street

Location	Bishopsgate
Local authority	City of London
Managed by	Network Rail
Station code	LST
Platforms in use	18
Travelcard zone	1
NR 2004/5 usage	50.469 million1
NR 2005/6 usage	47.271 million1
NR 2006/7 usage	55.266 million1
1874 (1874)	Opened
List of stations	Underground • National Rail
External links	Departures • Facilities
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Coordinates: 51°31′07″N 0°04′53″W / 51.5186, -0.0813

Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a major railway station and connected London Underground station in the north eastern corner of the City of London in England. It is the southern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML), and is the main departure point from London to destinations in the East of England not served by the East Coast Main Line from King's Cross, as well as serving commuter services to parts of East London and Essex.

It is one of the busiest stations in the United Kingdom, the third busiest in London after Waterloo and Victoria with 123 million visitors each year, and 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.

In fiction

A view over the station from Exchange Square

• In the years following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, fictional docu-drama portrayals of how a terrorist organisation might seek to attack London twice chose Liverpool Street station as the specific target. London Under Attack, first shown by the BBC One Panorama programme in May 2004 [1], had a lorry containing chlorine gas explode at the junction of Shoreditch High Street and Commercial Street, just north of Liverpool Street station. The gas cloud hung over the station, and killed 3,000 people. The British Government denounced the programme as "irresponsible and alarmist".² The BBC said that the programmes was backed by research, and that Liverpool Street was used because of its position on the border between the City of London and the East End of London. The second programme was the drama Dirty War, also produced by the BBC and first shown in October 2004, in which a suicide terrorists detonate a "dirty bomb" just outside the Underground station, killing 200 people and rendering the area uninhabitable for 30 years. Since the programme aired, the spot at which the fictional bomb-carrying vehicle parked has become pedestrianised.

Modern platform extensions at Liverpool Street station

• Andy McNab's fictional novel Dark Winter makes the station the target of a similar attack.
• In the 1988 children's book Groosham Grange the main character is sent from London Liverpool street to groosham grange.
• Liverpool Street Station is one of the four railway stations on the London version of the Monopoly game.
• A CIA safe house features above the Old Broad Street entrance to Liverpool Street tube station in the film Mission: Impossible. In the movie, the lead character played by Tom Cruise leaves the safe house and enters the main line concourse to use a payphone situated under the double staircase (since removed, with cash machines now at the spot). Cruise can also be seen looking out of a window located in the safe house.
• In fiction author Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series, the headquarters of MI6 is near Liverpool Street station.
• In the film Stormbreaker, the lead character runs through the station to find a photo booth whereupon he is then transported to MI6.

Future developments

Liverpool Street station viewed from Liverpool Street itself

Current plans for the Crossrail service would see a new station at Liverpool Street with full mainline and underground connections.

Preceding station		Crossrail		Following station
Farringdon toward Maidenhead or Heathrow Airport		Crossrail		Whitechapel toward Abbey Wood or Shenfield

London Underground

Liverpool Street

Location	Bishopsgate
Local authority	City of London
Managed by	London Underground
Station code	ZLS
Platforms in use	4
Travelcard zone	1
LUL 2005 usage	50.67 million3
LUL 2007 usage	61.317 million3
1 February 1875	Open (using mainline)
12 July 1875	Opened (Bishopsgate)
1 November 1909	Renamed (Liverpool Street)
28 July 1912	Central Line opens (terminus)
4 December 1946	Central Line extends(through)
List of stations	Underground • National Rail
External links	Departures • Facilities
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Liverpool Street Tube Station is the fifth busiest station on the Underground network with 4 lines passing through; 3 sub-surface and one deep level. The station has sub-surface platforms (opened by the Metropolitan Railway as "Bishopsgate" on 12 July 1875) on the Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines. The Metropolitan had served main-line platforms of the GER station from 1 February 1875, but this through link had only a short life. The station was renamed Liverpool Street from 1 November 1909. A disused west-facing bay platform once used by terminating Metropolitan and occasional District line trains running via Edgware Road is still visible.

The deep-level Central Line platforms opened on 28 July 1912, at the eastern end of the Central London Railway. The Central line was extended eastwards, as part of the Second World War-delayed London Passenger Transport Board's "New Works Programme 1935 - 1940", on 4 December 1946.

Notable events

On 7 July 2005, terrorist Shehzad Tanweer exploded a bomb on a London Underground train shortly after it left Liverpool Street towards Aldgate station on the Circle Line, killing seven people.

Gallery

roundel on Central line platform

Eastbound Central line platform with projected adverts added summer 2008

Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City line platforms looking clockwise

Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City line platforms looking anticlockwise

See also

• Broad Street railway station

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Liverpool Street station

• Station information on Liverpool Street station from Network Rail
• Old Liverpool Street 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.
• David Blunkett condemns docudrama
• London Landscape TV episode (7 mins) about Liverpool Street station

References

• 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. 

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Bank towards Ealing Broadway or West Ruislip		Central line		Bethnal Green towards Epping, Hainault or Woodford via Hainault
Moorgate towards Baker Street		Circle line		Aldgate towards Tower Hill
Moorgate towards Hammersmith		Hammersmith & City line		Aldgate East towards Barking
Moorgate towards Uxbridge, Amersham, Chesham or Watford		Metropolitan line		Aldgate Terminus

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