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Farringdon Station has been rebuilt [16] to accommodate longer Thameslink trains and to make other improvements to the station. [17] The existing station building has been refurbished with a new roof canopy covering the north end of all four platforms and a new entrance and concourse facing Turnmill Street.
City Thameslink is a central London railway station within the City of London, with entrances on Ludgate Hill and Holborn Viaduct. The station is on the Thameslink route between Blackfriars to the south and Farringdon to the north. The station opened in 1990 to replace Holborn Viaduct railway station.
King's Cross Widened Lines station was renamed King's Cross Midland City, and King's Cross Thameslink in May 1988 when the Snow Hill tunnels reopened for Thameslink. [25] The line from Farringdon to Moorgate closed on 20 March 2009, to allow the platforms at Farringdon be extended to take 12-car trains. [23]
The Thameslink Programme, originally Thameslink 2000, was a £6 billion project in south-east England to upgrade and expand the Thameslink rail network to provide new and longer trains between a wider range of stations to the north and to the south of London. The development facilitated new cross-London journeys, which means that passengers no ...
Plans included rebuilding the station buildings at Farringdon (in conjunction with the Crossrail project) and West Hampstead Thameslink, total rebuild of London Bridge and Blackfriars stations, two new underground platforms at St Pancras International, a new tunnel north of St Pancras International to the East Coast Main Line to allow through ...
The northern portal of the tunnel in 2012, seen from Farringdon station. Snow Hill tunnel is a railway tunnel on the northern edge of the City of London which carries the up and down Snow Hill lines [1] between City Thameslink and Farringdon stations.
The redevelopment and expansion of Farringdon station has had a significant effect on the local area. The station is served by the Thameslink north–south rail route and since May 2022 the east–west Elizabeth line service which required the construction of additional station entrances.
Farringdon is expected to become one of the busiest stations in the UK, due to it being the key interchange station with Thameslink services. [97] In a business plan for the line published in January 2020, TfL predicted total annual revenues from the line of nearly £500 million per year in 2022/23 (its first full year of operation) and over £ ...