Old Street station

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Old Street
Location
Place	Old Street
Local authority	Islington
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	4
Annual entry/exit	13.791 million
Transport for London
Zone	1
History
Key dates	Opened 1901 (C&SLR) Opened 1904 (GN&CR)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Old Street station is a London Underground and National Rail station located at the junction of Old Street and City Road just north of the City of London. It lies on the border between the boroughs of Islington and Hackney, but is located completely within the former.

The station is on the Bank branch of London Underground's Northern Line, between Moorgate and Angel stations. It is also between Moorgate and Essex Road stations on National Rail's Northern City Line, operated by First Capital Connect. The station is in Travelcard Zone 1.

The station was originally opened in November 1901 by the first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, as part of an extension of its line from Moorgate to Angel. The Northern City Line platforms were opened in February 1904 by the Great Northern & City Railway which built its tunnels to a larger diameter capable of accommodating main line trains in the hope of carrying trains from its northern terminus at the Great Northern Railway's Finsbury Park station to Moorgate.

At the surface, the station is situated under the eastern edge of the busy Old Street roundabout, where Old Street crosses City Road. There is no ground-level station building, access being by ramps and stairs to a modern station entrance which is part of a small shopping parade beneath the roundabout. The original ground-level buildings were removed when the roundabout was constructed. The station has toilets, but they are not open late into the evening.

During the 1990s problems with acidity in the soil causing corrosion of the cast iron tunnel lining required a section of the Northern Line tunnel south of Old Street to be re-lined with stainless steel tunnel segments.

On the Northern Line between Old Street and Angel is the disused tube station City Road.

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Train times for Old Street station from National Rail
London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- Original Old Street station building
- Redesigned station building in 1929
Map sources

Previous station	London Underground	Next station
Angel toward Edgware, Mill Hill East or High Barnet	Northern Line	Moorgate toward Morden
National Rail
Essex Road	First Capital Connect Northern City Line Mondays-Fridays only	London Moorgate

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