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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 ...
The terminal platforms at Blackfriars were closed, as was the Farringdon to Moorgate branch line. [27] A 15 trains per hour (tph) peak-hour service was introduced on the core section between St. Pancras and Blackfriars. [28] A new footbridge was built at Farringdon to improve interchange with London Underground's Circle line.
The signalling was upgraded to support automatic train operation through the station, along with the rest of the core Thameslink route, [27] and British Rail Class 700 trains were introduced into the service. [28] The following January, several evening services from City Thameslink to St Albans and Harpenden were reinstated, after a six-month ...
The Snow Hill Tunnel route remained open for cross-London freight trains until 1970, when the short section between Farringdon and Holborn Viaduct was closed. Overhead electrification, completed in 1982, allowed the northern section to run as the Midland City Line from Bedford via the Midland Main Line to St Pancras , and via the City Widened ...
The C69 stock trains were replaced by seven-car S Stock trains, the first running on the Circle line on 2 September 2013. [49] [50] [51] By June 2014 all services were provided by S7 Stock trains. The trains are part of Bombardier's Movia family, [52] and have a top speed of 62 mph (100 km/h). [52]
The GNR started routing all its suburban trains through the tunnels to Farringdon Street (now Farringdon) station in October. Trains into London stopped at a new platform known as King's Cross York Road to the north east of the mainline station, and again at the Metropolitan station, while trains out of London stopped at the Metropolitan ...
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 ...
From 1865, the Met ran trains to Hammersmith and the GWR trains to Addison Road. [ b ] In 1867, the line became jointly owned by the two companies. In 1871, two additional tracks parallel to the GWR between Westbourne Park and Paddington were brought into use for the H&CR, and in 1878 the flat crossing at Westbourne Park was replaced by a dive ...