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  2. Farringdon station - Wikipedia

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    Farringdon has recently received significant upgrades to allow it to meet the needs of a series of major rail upgrade projects: The Thameslink Programme was a major upgrade to the existing north-south Thameslink route, enabling longer and more frequent trains, completed in 2018; and the Four Lines Modernisation involves the wholesale ...

  3. Widened Lines - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. English Channel - Wikipedia

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    The map is possibly the first recorded use of the term English Channel and the description suggests the name had recently been adopted. [ 9 ] In the sixteenth century, Dutch maps referred to the sea as the Engelse Kanaal (English Channel) and by the 1590s, William Shakespeare used the word Channel in his history plays of Henry VI , suggesting ...

  5. Farringdon - Wikipedia

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    Farringdon Road, a road in Clerkenwell, London; Farringdon Street, an extension of Farringdon Road into the City of London; Farringdon station, a railway station in Clerkenwell which takes its name from Farringdon Road; Farringdon, London, an area of Clerkenwell which also takes its name from Farringdon Road; Farringdon Within, a ward in the ...

  6. Holborn Viaduct railway station - Wikipedia

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    Holborn Viaduct was a railway station in the City of London, providing local and commuter services. It was located to the southeast of Holborn Viaduct, and east of Farringdon Street. The station was opened in 1874 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to alleviate increased usage of the nearby Ludgate Hill station.

  7. Farringdon, London - Wikipedia

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    Farringdon Station was built close to Farringdon Road, and originally named Farringdon Street Station. [5] The presence of the railway station has led to the surrounding areas of southern Clerkenwell being referred to as Farringdon. Farringdon station under British Rail with a Network SouthEast livery British Rail Class 319 on a Thameslink service

  8. Farringdon Halt railway station - Wikipedia

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    Farringdon Halt, on the last working day of the branch. The station opened on 1 May 1931 as Farringdon Halt; the Meon Valley Railway was a particularly difficult line to construct. [1] A goods yard for loading agricultural produce was already sited there and a short wooden platform of one coach-length was built to serve the village in 1930. [2]

  9. File:Crossrail platform at Farringdon.jpg - Wikipedia

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