Up From The Depths At Moorgate Station
Moorgate station must have been built for rabbits, as it is a bit of a warren.
On arriving on the Northern Line platforms at the station a few days ago, I took the rat-up-the-drainpipe route to the surface.
This is the route I took.
- Up the escalator to the Northern City Line platforms.
- Straight up the Northern City Line escalators to the surface.
- Through the barrier and then up to street level on one of two flights of steps, which are on opposite sides of Moorgate.
It is quicker and has less steps.
Crossrail
How will axxess change, when Crossrail opens.
Look at this image, I’ve clipped from this large visualisation of the massive Liverpool Street-Moorgate Crossrail Station.
The image shows the Northern City Line coming into Moorgate station.
Colours are as follows.
- Blue – Northern City Line
- Yellow – Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines
- Black – Northern
- Turquoise – Crossrail
Details to note.
Existing Northern City Escalators
The escalator shaft to the existing ticket hall is shown in white by the letter M of Moorgate.
Existing Northern Line Escalators
The double tunnels from the stairs leading to the platforms to the escalators are shown in white underneath the Northern City Line.
The escalators to the existing ticket hall are clearly shown. Both are in white.
Circle And Hammersmith & City Lines
When Crossrail opens, passengers would seem to still do, as they do now to interchange between Northern/Northern City and the Sub-Surface Lines.
But there is also a turquoise tunnel with a right-angle bend in the middle, that appears to do the following.
- Link to the Northern and Northern City Lines at its Northern end.
- Run under the sub-surface Lines.
Finally the tunnel connects to the big turquoise block, which I take to be the new Crossrail ticket hall.
There appear to be lifts on both sides of the Sub-Surface Lines.
Note.
- The lift on the North side of the Sub-Surface Lines, appears to be in a room with a window. Perhaps, the wall will be removed?
- The lift on the South side of the Sub-Surface Lines, appears to be in a lobby, set back from the tracks, but accessible from all three platforms on that side.
- I suspect they connect to the connecting tunnel below the platforms.
There does appear to be quite a bit of work to do.
The New Crossrail Station
The big turquoise block is the new Crossrail station and Ticket Hall.
Crossrail would appear to connect to the Northern and Northern City Lines, using the new subway, but it doesn’t seem that obvious how passengers will walk between the Sub-Surface Lines and the Crossrail Ticket Hall.
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The Anonymous Widower 
So you have Warren street (which really isn’t) and Moorgate (which doesn’t have a gate, nor is there a gate nearby anymore, nor any Moors nearby anymore).
Almost designed to confuse!
Comment by MilesT | February 19, 2021 |
Warren Street is named after Sir Peter Warren according to Wikipedia.
Comment by AnonW | February 19, 2021 |
I certainly think, Moorgate was a gate in the City Walls, as after all London Wall runs to the west and there is a section of Roman wall close to the London Museum.
My grandfather’s engraving office was somewhere in that area, but sadly it was all destroyed in the Blitz along with all the history of the Hugenote side of my family.
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