Barbican tube station

Barbican is a London Underground station in the City of London. It is located on Aldersgate Street in the vicinity of the Cultural Centre Barbican Centre. Here keep the Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line and Metropolitan Line. In the year 2011 there were 9.23 million subway passengers the located in the Travelcard Zone 1 station.

History

The station was opened on December 23, 1865 by the Metropolitan Railway ( predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line), at that time still under the name of Aldersgate Street. This was followed by three name changes: On November 1, 1910 in Aldersgate, 1923 in Aldersgate & Barbican and on December 1, 1968 in Barbican. Since 1866 the leading through the station of the Metropolitan Railway route is four tracks. The second pair of tracks, the Widened Lines, suburban services of other railway companies served in the City of London. Since 1871 chain west of the station today a disused compound curve on Snow Hill Tunnel from.

The entrance to the station is located in a modern, built at the beginning of the 1990s building. Complement the surroundings of in an upwardly open recess platforms, however, are much older date. One can also see an old signal house and the remains of the foundation of a glass roof, which was demolished in the 1950s. The station staff has a display case set up in the main hall, which provides information about the history of the station.

From the western end of the platform from a tunnel in the Widened Lines can be seen passing underneath the Smithfield meat market. Under the Market Hall was 1869-1962, a small train yard; there among other cattle were transported, destined for the slaughterhouse.

As part of the Thameslink 2000 project of the railway traffic was stopped on the little-used branch line to Moorgate station in March 2009. This is to help in Farringdon to extend the platform. After completion of the Crossrail project, the construction of a commuter train tunnel in east-west direction, the eastern entrance to the new underground station just west of Farringdon Station Barbican will come to rest.