London Bridge station

London Bridge is one of the main railway stations of London. It is located in the district of Southwark, on the south end of London Bridge. The train station in Travelcard Zone 1 consists of three parts: a through station, a terminus station and an underground station of the London Underground. In the year 2011 there were 48.723 million passengers, the railway the station, added 65.44 million subway passengers.

There are many sights, such as the London Dungeon, Southwark Cathedral, Tower Bridge, HMS Belfast, the City Hall, the skyscrapers, the Shard and the Tate Modern in the surrounding area.

Plant

The transit station is on the north side. The route takes in contrast to all other London mainline stations further into the city center. The trains of Southeastern operate to the train stations Charing Cross and Cannon Street, the Thameslink trains of the company First Capital Connect traverse the city center at the Snow Hill tunnel and operating more in the northern suburbs. In the opposite direction, the objectives of Kent and South East London. From the top station, with trains of South Eastern to South London, Surrey and Sussex. The tracks of the train station and the outgoing routes are electrified with the usual in southern England traction power system (lateral power rail with 750V DC ). London Bridge is one of 17 stations managed by the rail infrastructure company Network Rail.

In the subway station beneath the square intersect at two levels, the Northern Line and the Jubilee Line. There is one input to the Tooley Street and Borough High Street, leading down from where escalators to the platforms. As in the other opened in 1999, stations of the Jubilee Line extension are separated by platform doors of the tracks here the platforms.

History

Railway

London Bridge is the oldest station in London. The first head station was opened on 14 December in 1836 by the London and Greenwich Railway, which later became South Eastern Railway (SER ). Immediately next door built the London and Croydon Railway, later the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB & SCR), a private concourse, which was put into operation on 15 June 1839.

In 1844, we removed the partition wall between the two buildings and six years later, the entire plant was demolished and replaced by a common building, which was opened on January 3, 1851. Barely completed, the system proved to be too small. For this reason, crack 1853 LB & SCR station Part off rebuilt it new and expanded it in 1866 again; this is the still existing railhead.

The train station is part of the SER was torn down in the early 1860s to increase the foundation by a few meters. So now it was possible, the line continued to extend to the city center into it. The current through station took on 11 January 1864 the operation. In 1978, British Rail through a comprehensive reorganization of the entire system.

In 1861 was created as an extension of the station concourse, the Terminus Hotel. It was acquired in 1893 by the LB & SCR and converted into an office building in 1941 but demolished.

Subway

The metro station was opened on February 25, 1900 by the City and South London Railway (predecessor company of the Northern Line ), as part of the new line between Peterborough and Moorgate. Previously perverted the trains to the terminus at King William Street and drove it about 100 meters at London Bridge Station over. The new line enabled the connection of the station to the metro network.

Twice the station was closed. From 28 November 1923 to 20 April 1924, the clearance profile of the tunnel has been extended to increase capacity. The second closing took place in 1999 between July 2 and September 5 to expand the distribution level in view of the imminent opening of the Jubilee Line. The commissioning of the platforms of the Jubilee Line took place on 7 October 1999, the trains ran here, however, since the September 24 without stopping by. During construction, some Roman objects were excavated, including vases and fragments of a mosaic. Some of these objects are on display in the station.