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Entrance to Moorgate
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| Location | Moorgate |
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| Local authority | City of London |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Station code | MOG |
| Number of platforms | 8 |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2008 |  22.220 million |
| 2009 |  21.182 million |
| 2010 | 21.040 million |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2007–08 | 10.109 million |
| — interchange | 1.351 million |
| 2008–09 | 9.374 million |
| — interchange | 1.229 million |
| 2009–10 | 6.737 million |
| — interchange | 1.294 million |
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| 1865 | Opened (MR) |
| 1900 | Opened (C&SLR) |
| 1904 | Opened (GN&CR) |
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Coordinates: 51°31′07″N 0°05′19″W / 51.5186°N 0.0886°W |
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Moorgate station is a central London National Rail and London Underground station in the City of London. It is on Moorgate, north of London Wall. At one time the station was named "Moorgate Street". It is the central London railway terminus for suburban First Capital Connect services from Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth. Until March 2009 it was also a terminus for trains on the Thameslink line, also run by First Capital Connect. It is the site of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975 in which 46 people were killed and 74 were injured.
The Underground station is on the Bank branch of the Northern line between Old Street and Bank, and also on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, between Barbican and Liverpool Street.
Gallery
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Entrance on Moorgate, the eastern side of the main building. There is another exit on Moorgate, directly opposite.
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The western side of the main building has one of two entrances on Moorfields, with Moorgate visible on the extreme right in the background
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Northbound Northern line platform looking north.
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Roundel on northbound Northern line platform.
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Northbound Great Northern (First Capital Connect) platform looking north. Note 16 ft (mainline) diameter tunnel ahead.
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Station sign on northbound Great Northern (First Capital Connect) platform. Note old Network SouthEast style.
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Sub-surface Eastbound/Clockwise Platform 1 at Moorgate station prior to Crossrail works
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National Rail platform 9 looking north at Moorgate viewed from a Class 313
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An S7 Circle line train on a Clockwise service via Liverpool Street viewed from the opposite platform with a C69/77 stock train on a Clockwise service via Paddington on the approach