Liverpool Street station

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
Fare zone	1
OSI	Bank Fenchurch Street
National Rail annual entry and exit
2013–14	63.004 million
– interchange	2.912 million
2014–15	63.631 million
– interchange	3.144 million
2015–16	66.557 million
– interchange	2.481 million
2016–17	67.339 million
– interchange	2.745 million
Railway companies
Original company	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London & North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1874 (1874)	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°31′07″N 0°04′53″W / 51.5186°N 0.0813°W / 51.5186; -0.0813

Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a major railway station in the Spitalfields area of the City of London. It is the southern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML). It is connected to a London Underground station of a same name.

Liverpool Street, the main departure point from London through the East of England. It serves these places not served by the East Coast Main Line from London King's Cross. It has commuter services to parts of East London and Essex, such as Chelmsford, Clacton-on-Sea, Witham and Norwich. It serves the London Stansted Airport via Stansted Express.

Passenger numbers

It is one of its busiest stations in the United Kingdom, the third busiest station in London after Waterloo and Victoria. Over 123 million people use this station each year. The station is one of 17 stations managed by Network Rail. The station has entrances/exits to Bishopsgate, Liverpool Street, and the Broadgate development. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

Gallery

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  Westbound platform 3 roundel on Central line platform
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  Eastbound Central line platform 4 with projected adverts
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  Circle Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan line platforms looking clockwise
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  Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan line platforms looking anticlockwise
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  A National Express East Anglia Class 90 unit 90344 at 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.

Other websites

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.