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The street was constructed around 1846 as one of the new approaches to London Bridge. While the street was formally known as "Moorgate Street", the street part of the name eventually fell out of use. The Chartered Accountants' Hall, on Moorgate Place, is the home of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Moorgate is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station on Moorgate in the City of London.Main line railway services for Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage are operated by Great Northern, while the London Underground station is served by the Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan and Northern lines.
The extension to Aldersgate Street and Moorgate Street (now Barbican and Moorgate) opened on 23 December 1865, [12] and all four lines were open on 1 March 1866. [13] The parallel tracks from King's Cross to Farringdon, first used by a GNR freight train on 27 January 1868, [14] entered a second Clerkenwell tunnel before dropping at a gradient of 1 in 100, passing under the Ray Street Gridiron ...
Opened as Aldersgate Street, then Aldersgate in 1910, Aldersgate & Barbican in 1923 and Barbican in 1968. [10: Moorgate: 23 December 1865: Opened as Moorgate Street, renamed in 1924. [10] Connects with Northern line and the main line.
From Drayton Park to Moorgate traction current is supplied at 750 V DC via third rail. There are two electrical sections, [11] separated by a gap at Poole Street: Queensland Road to Poole Street; Poole Street to Finsbury Circus; Trains change from AC to DC traction supply, or vice versa, whilst standing at Drayton Park station. [11]
Little Moorfields was the element that was left lying just west of Moorgate Street after a gap had been made in the wall to create the Moorgate, and the associated road from the north, in the 15th and 16th century. These parts were inside the City boundaries, lying in the Coleman Street Ward.
A statue of the English Romantic poet John Keats is located in Moorfields, Moorgate in the City of London. It was sculpted by Martin Jennings and depicts a larger than life-size copy of a life mask of Keats taken aged 21. Keats was the son of an ostler at the nearby inn, The Swan and Hoop. [1]
The line could not be extended any further south due to the proximity of the tunnels of the City & South London Railway under Princes Street. [5] Work began on the Moorgate Street to Lothbury section but was abandoned almost immediately, with the tunnelling shield left in place at the end of the southbound tunnel, just south of Moorgate Street. [5]