Will Shoreditch High Street Be Connected To The Central Line?
Every Londoner has their own personal pet hates about the Underground.
One of mine is the lack of an interchange between the East London Line and the Central line at Shoreditch High Street station. The Central line passes under the East London Line and some web sites say that provision was left in the new station for the connection.
This map from carto.metro.free.fr shows the lines around Shoreditch High Street station.
Shoreditch High Street Station
Note how the Central Line platforms at Liverpool Street are in the South West corner of the map.
Some sites also say that the reason for not building the connection, is that the Central line is too crowded and a decision will not be taken until after Crosrail opens. This is the comment on an article about the connection in London Connections.
Don’t expect an interchange with the Central Line until Crossrail 1 is fully operational. The Central Line in its present, heavily overcrowded, state could not possible cope with even more stations.
Perhaps in about 10 years…
It does sound sensible.
Getting West on the Central Line can be difficult from where I live.
I can take a bus to either Bank or St. Paul’s stations, but coming back is a problem, as the bus stops aren’t well placed.
After Crossrail opens, I might take the same bus to Moorgate for the new line or I could get to Crossrail using the East London Line connection at Whitechapel.
It shows how Crossrail is going to add masses of possible new routes to everybody’s travel in London.
Crossrail links with the Central line at Stratford with a cross-platform interchange and more conventionally at Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road, Bond Street and Ealing Broadway.
As the East London Line links to Crossrail at Whitechapel, will passengers going from say Anerley to Epping, be happy with a double change at Whitechapel and Stratford? Especially, as the second one would be just a walk across the platform.
I think they will.
But obviously Transport for London will have all the traffic statistics and would know when creating the Interchange at Shoreditch High Street will be worthwhile.
But looking at the map of the lines at Shoreditch High Street station, leads me to wonder if it would be possible to put in an escalator connection to the Eastern end of the Central Line platforms at Liverpool Street station. This map from carto.metro.free.fr shows the Central Line through both stations in detail.
Liverpool Street And Shoreditch High Street Stations
As all of the office blocks on both sides of Bishopsgate, were planned and designed before Crossrail and the London Overground, I do wonder that if they were being designed now, they would build a travelator connection between Shoreditch High Street and Liverpool Street stations, which incorporated another set of escalators to the Central Line.
The Anonymous Widower 
Excellent idea, the more interchanges between lines; the better. The overground’s connections with the underground leave a lot to be desired as it is. Especially with the gradual redevelopmnent on the old east end.
But I can see why they would want to wait until Crossrail is operational.
Comment by Daniel Eyre | January 20, 2018 |
One of the effects of Crossrail on Central London, will be the same as putting a by-pass around a town or city. Passengers will have an alternative route, so historic transport routes in the city can be rebuilt ir developed.
Crossrail will allow the Central Libe to be closed in Central London for a few months at a time to aid the rebuilding or improving of stations like Shoreditch High Street, Oxford Circus, Holborn and Marble Arch.
I would get all the improvements shovel-ready and then do them all together in one four or five months closure over the winter.
Comment by AnonW | January 20, 2018 |
Well, Crossrail opened and we are still waiting… Seems to be difficult to justify why Shoreditch High Street Station can only go up and down and not west and east…
Comment by Alejandro Bonatto | June 9, 2022 |
It won’t get built soon, as it’s not in South London and there’s no votes in it for the Mayor.
But there is a lot of development going on near the station and it might be possible, that a developer would underwrite it.
Comment by AnonW | June 9, 2022 |