Calling at... British railway stations: Moorgate (MOG/ZMG)

Moorgate is a London terminus and major interchange station in the City of London. It is between Barbican and Liverpool Street on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan Lines. It is between Old Street and Bank on the Northern Line. It is the terminus of the Northern City Line.

Heritage Metropolitan Railway style sign on one of the disused platforms

Information
Type:	National Rail (Great Northern) Transport for London (Northern, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan Lines)
Station codes:	MOG (National Rail) ZMG (Underground)
Opened:	1865
Platforms:	10 (7 in use)

The station was originally opened in 1865 by the Metropolitan Railway as it's first Eastern terminus. The deep tube reached Moorgate in 1900 via the City & South London Railway, this is now the Northern Line.

The Northern City Line was opened in 1904 running from Moorgate to Finsbury Park. This was operated by tube trains (as a branch of the Northern Line) though the tunnels were built to mainline gauge which meant British Rail could take over the line in 1975 [1]. One service that no longer stops at Moorgate is the London Thameslink, the Moorgate branch closing in 2009.

Unfortunately also in 1975 came the worst ever peacetime accident on the London Underground when a Northern City Line train crashed into the buffers killing forty three people [2].

Moorgate is a busy station served by four London Underground (three of them sub-surface) lines and a National Rail line. Crossrail's Liverpool Street station will have an interchange at Moorgate.