Editing Liverpool Street station (section)

====Recent history and privatisation (1991–present)====
[[File:Twinning plaque at Liverpool Street station.jpg|thumb|A plaque commemorating the twinning of Liverpool Street and [[Amsterdam Centraal railway station|Amsterdam Centraal]] stations]]
In 1991, an additional entrance was constructed on the east side of [[Bishopsgate]] with a [[Subway (underpass)|subway]] under the road.{{sfn|Biddle|2016|p=180}} The station was "twinned" with [[Amsterdam Centraal railway station]] on 2 December 1993, with a plaque marking this close to the entrance to the Underground station.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=The Railway Magazine|volume=140|year=1994|publisher=IPC|page=13|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9WAAAAMAAJ |title=The Railway Magazine }}</ref>

The station was badly damaged on 24 April 1993 by the [[1993 Bishopsgate bombing|Bishopsgate bombing]] and was temporarily closed as a result.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-bishopsgate-bomb-one-bomb-pounds-1bn-devastation-man-dead-after-city-blast--two-more-explosions-late-last-night-1457397.html| title = The Bishopsgate Bomb: One bomb: pounds 1bn devastation: Man dead after City blast – Two more explosions late last night| date = 25 April 1993 |newspaper=The Independent }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper = The Times| title = Taxpayers foot IRA bomb bill| date = 26 April 1993| issue = 64628| at = p. 1, col. 1| first1 = Philip| last1 = Webster| first2 = Jonathan| last2= Prynn| first3 = Jamie| last3 = Dettmner| first4 = Richard| last4 = Ford}}</ref> About £250,000 of damage was caused to the station, primarily to the glass roof. The station re-opened on 26 April 1993.<ref>{{cite news | title = Liverpool St. reopens |newspaper = The Times| issue = 64368| page =2| date = 16 April 1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Shattered City defies the bombers |newspaper = The Times| issue = 64628| page =40| date = 26 April 1993|first = Neil| last = Bennett}}</ref>

In 2013, during excavation work for the [[Crossrail]] project, a {{convert|2|acre|1|adj=on}} mass burial ground dating from the 17th century was uncovered a few feet beneath the surface at Liverpool Street, the so-called Bedlam burial ground or [[New Churchyard]]. It contained the remains of several hundred people and it is thought that the interments were of a wide variety of people, including plague victims, prisoners and unclaimed corpses.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/crossrail-dig-unearths-ancient-burial-site-under-liverpool-street-station-8751957.html |title = Crossrail dig unearths ancient burial site under Liverpool Street station |newspaper = London Evening Standard| date = 8 August 2013| first = Mark| last = Blunden}}</ref> A 16th-century gold coin, thought to have been used as a sequin or pendant, was also found.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/08/crossrail-project-unearths-prehistoric-workshop-and-16th-century-burial-ground-3917415/| title = Crossrail project unearths prehistoric workshop and 16th-century burial ground| first = Hayden| last = Smith| date = 8 August 2013 |newspaper=Metro }}</ref> In early 2015 full scale excavation of the burials began, then estimated at 3,000 interments.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11459474/Plague-pit-with-3000-skeletons-uncovered-at-new-Liverpool-Street-station-ticket-hall.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150309223203/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11459474/Plague-pit-with-3000-skeletons-uncovered-at-new-Liverpool-Street-station-ticket-hall.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = 9 March 2015| title = Plague pit with 3,000 skeletons uncovered at new Liverpool Street station ticket hall |date = 9 March 2015| newspaper = The Daily Telegraph }}</ref>

[[File:Elizabeth line entrance, Liverpool Street station - 2022-06-03.jpg|thumb|The Elizabeth line entrance at Liverpool Street]]
In advance of the full opening of the [[Elizabeth line]], precursor operator [[TfL Rail]] took over from [[Greater Anglia (train operating company)|Greater Anglia]] the Liverpool Street-Shenfield stopping "metro" service from 2015.<ref name=tfl_rail>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/29/neglected-rail-services-london-tfl-overground|title=Clean, reliable and integrated: all change for neglected rail services in London|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 May 2015|access-date=29 August 2016}}</ref> At the same time, services on the [[Lea Valley Lines]] out of Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, Cheshunt (via Seven Sisters) and Chingford transferred to [[London Overground]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://londonist.com/2013/07/tfl-confirms-takeover-of-west-anglia-rail-services|title=TfL Confirms Takeover of West Anglia Rail Services|work=[[The Londonist]]|date=19 August 2015|access-date=29 August 2016}}</ref> The central section of the Elizabeth line opened on 24 May 2022 between Paddington and Abbey Wood.<ref>{{cite news |title=Elizabeth line: Delayed £18bn Crossrail finally opens |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-london-61507125 |access-date=24 May 2022 |work=BBC News |language=en-gb}}</ref> The Elizabeth line platforms are to the south-west of the existing tube station building.<ref name="opening-es" /> A new ticket hall with [[Accessibility|step-free access]] opened next to the Broadgate development, with links to the existing Underground station, and a pedestrian link via the new platforms to the ticket hall of {{stn|Moorgate}}, providing direct access to London Underground's [[Northern line]] and the National Rail [[Northern City Line]] at Moorgate. Thus, Liverpool Street appears on the [[Tube map]] as an interchange with Moorgate, similarly to {{lus|Bank}} and {{lus|Monument}}.<ref>{{cite web |date=17 July 2015 |title=Crossrail, As It May Appear on the Tube Map |url=http://londonist.com/2010/11/crossrail_as_it_will_appear_on_the |access-date=14 September 2016 |publisher=The Londonist}}</ref>