Editing Liverpool Street station (section)

==London Underground station==
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{{Infobox London station
| name          = Liverpool Street     
| symbol        = underground
| alt_name      = 
| manager       = [[London Underground]]  
| manager1      =
| manager2      = 
| owner         = [[Transport for London]]
| owner1        =
| owner2        =
| locale        = Bishopsgate 
| borough       = [[City of London]]
| platforms     = 4
| fare_zone     = 1
| cyclepark = Yes (platform 10 & external)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/stop/940GZZLULVT/liverpool-street-underground-station|title=Liverpool Street Underground Station|publisher=Transport for London|access-date=25 August 2016}}</ref>
| railcode      =
| railcode2     = 
| image_name    = Liverpool Street Underground concourse entr.JPG
| image_alt     =
| caption       = Entrance from the main concourse at Liverpool Street
| coordinates   = 
| map_type      =
| years1        = 1 February 1875{{sfn|Jackson|1984|p=112}}
| years2        = 12 July 1875{{sfn|Jackson|1984|p=112}}
| years3        = 1 November 1909{{sfn|Smith|2001|p=177}}
| years4        = 28 July 1912{{sfn|Jackson|1984|p=117}}
| years5        = 4 December 1946
| years6        =
| events1       = Opened (using main line)
| events2       = Opened as ''Bishopsgate''
| events3       = Renamed ''Liverpool Street''
| events4       = [[Central line (London Underground)]] opened (terminus)
| events5       = Central line extended (through)
| events6       =
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| access = yes
| access_note =  (Sub-surface eastbound platform only)<ref>{{citation step free tube map}}</ref>
}}

===Services===
On the London Underground, Liverpool Street is on the [[Central line (London Underground)|Central]], [[Circle line (London Underground)|Circle]], [[Hammersmith & City line|Hammersmith & City]] and [[Metropolitan line|Metropolitan]] lines, and is the sixth-busiest station on the network.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cityam.com/220725/london-underground-really-getting-more-crowded-here-are-10-busiest-tube-stations |title=The London Underground really is getting more crowded – here are the 10 busiest Tube stations |newspaper=City AM |location= London |date=23 July 2015 |access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> On the Central line, the station is between [[Bank and Monument stations|Bank]] and [[Bethnal Green tube station|Bethnal Green]] stations. On the Circle and Metropolitan lines, it is between [[Moorgate station|Moorgate]] and [[Aldgate tube station|Aldgate]] stations. On the Hammersmith & City line, it is between Moorgate and [[Aldgate East tube station|Aldgate East]] stations. In common with other tube stations serving Central London termini, this station is in fare zone 1. There is no wheelchair access to the tube lines,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010032009/http://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2015 |url-status=live |title=Standard Tube Map |publisher= Transport for London|access-date=2 October 2016}}</ref> except from the eastbound Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, which have a ramp leading to the platform.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://content.tfl.gov.uk/step-free-tube-guide-map.pdf |title=Step-free Tube Guide|publisher=Transport for London|date=December 2023|access-date=8 February 2024}}</ref>

{{Adjacent stations|system=London Underground
  |line1=Central|left1=Bank|right1=Bethnal Green
  |line2=Circle|left2=Moorgate|right2=Aldgate|type2=section 2
  |line3=Hammersmith & City|left3=Moorgate|right3=Aldgate East|to-left3=Hammersmith via King's Cross St. Pancras
  |line4=Metropolitan|left4=Moorgate|right4=Aldgate|to-right4=Aldgate
|header5=Former services
|system6=London Underground
  |line6=Metropolitan |left6=Moorgate|right6=Aldgate East |to-left6=Hammersmith |to-right6=Barking |note-mid6=[[Metropolitan Railway#Hammersmith & City Railway|Hammersmith branch]] (1864–1990)}}

===History===
[[File:Liverpool_street_tube_station_entrance.jpg|thumb|right|Street entrance to the Underground station]]
Liverpool Street had been designed to integrate with the expanding London Underground network, and served as a new terminus for the [[Metropolitan Railway]] (MR) which extended east from [[Moorgate tube station|Moorgate]].{{sfn|Bownes|Green|Mullins|2012|p=37}} From 1874 to 1875, the MR used the Liverpool Street main line station as a terminus; the company opened its own station on 12 July 1875, initially named '''Bishopsgate'''.{{sfn|Smith|2001|p=177}} Subsurface platforms 1 and 2 were opened in 1875.{{sfn|Menear|1983|p=14}} A west-facing bay platform, platform 3, was formerly located to the south of platform 2;<ref>{{Cite book|title=London Railway Atlas|last=Brown|first=Joe|publisher=Ian Allan Publishing Limited|year=2015|isbn=978-0-7110-3819-6|location=Hersham|pages=26, 90}}</ref> this was used by terminating Metropolitan line trains from the west.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/MiscTube.html|title=Images of former Platform 3 at Liverpool Street underground station}}</ref> It was in use by 1896,<ref>Ordnance Survey Town Plan London scale 1:1056 dated 1896</ref> and was still in use in 1974,<ref>London Transport, Timetable Metropolitan Line, 1974</ref> but was redundant by 1994.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Railway Track Diagrams – England South and London Underground|editor-last=Jacobs|editor-first=Gerald|publisher=Quail Map Company|year=1994|isbn=1-898319-07-3|location=Exeter|pages=44B}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

The underground station was renamed '''Liverpool Street''' on 1 November 1909.{{sfn|Smith|2001|p=177}}{{efn|An additional, smaller station called [[Bishopsgate (Low Level) railway station|Bishopsgate (Low Level)]] existed on the main line just outside of Liverpool Street from 1872 until 1916.{{sfn|Patmore|1987|p=195}}}} In 1912, after the completion of [[Central London Railway Liverpool Street extension|an extension project]] from [[Bank-Monument station|Bank]], the underground station became a new terminus of the [[Central London Railway]] (CLR).<ref name="psund">{{Cite PastScape|mnumber=502060|mname = Liverpool Street underground station, Bishopgate underground station|access-date=20 February 2014}}</ref> The platforms that are now the deep-level Central line platforms 4 and 5 opened as the eastern terminus of the CLR on 28 July 1912.{{sfn|Menear|1983|p=41}}{{sfn|ICE|1987|p=40}} The tube station was one of the first to use the Moore Vacuum Tube, a new system of lighting that produced three times as much as a normal bulb.{{sfn|Long|2010|p=50}}

The tube station became one of the principal shelters during [[the Blitz]]. The station was not initially open to the public as a shelter, but during heavy raids on the [[East End of London|East End]] on 7 September 1940, many sought refuge at the station, which was the safest and most practical shelter for many. Some sources suggest that the local people forced entry, others that staff decided to open the gates to everyone without asking for tickets, something which would have been technically illegal.{{sfn|Bownes|Green|Mullins|2012|pp=155–6}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local-council/untold-story-of-people-s-war-in-london-blitz-3413882|title=Untold story of People's War in London Blitz|newspaper=East London Advertiser|date=25 September 2010|access-date=2 March 2021}}</ref>

On 4 December 1946, the passenger line was extended eastwards as part of the [[World War II|war]]-delayed London Passenger Transport Board's [[New Works Programme]].{{sfn|Rose|2007}}{{sfn|ICE|1987|p=42}}{{sfn|Day|Reed|2008|pp=146–7}} An Underground ticket hall was added in 1951.<ref name="psund"/>

During the [[7 July 2005 London bombings|7 July 2005 terrorist attacks]] on London, a bomb was exploded aboard an Underground train that had departed Liverpool Street toward [[Aldgate tube station|Aldgate]]. Seven passengers were killed.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/london_blasts/html/aldgate.stm| title =London Attacks: Liverpool Street| work =BBC News Channel | publisher = BBC News}}</ref>