* 1975 – A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

** A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

This line connects further south to the tube system at Finsbury Park, Highbury and Islington, Old Street and Moorgate, where it terminates.

The lower priority routes J and K would have seen the Northern City extended to Woolwich ( Route J ) and Crystal Palace ( Route K ), at the same time as retaining the " Northern Heights " extensions to Edgware and Alexandra Palace, the line would have run in small-diameter tube tunnel south from Moorgate to Bank and London Bridge.

It was the terminus for the Moorgate branch of the Thameslink line until March 2009 and was the site of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975 when 43 people were killed and 74 were injured.

43 people were killed and 74 seriously injured in the Moorgate tube crash on 28 February 1975 when a southbound train crashed into buffers at the end of the line at the station inside a tunnel beyond the platform.

The Moorgate station on the London Underground is remembered for the Moorgate tube crash of 1975.

The circumstances of this accident were similar to those of the Moorgate tube crash of 1975.

* February 28 – Moorgate tube crash on the London Underground, in which a train accelerates into a dead-end tunnel at Moorgate station killing 43 people at the scene.

Since the closure of both, the attraction is accessible by the frequent W3 bus ( connections at Wood Green and Finsbury Park tube stations ), or by W3 or walking uphill from the current Alexandra Palace railway station which is currentily served by First Capital Connect services from King's Cross and Moorgate.

Since they were originally designed for use on Great Northern Suburban Inner Suburban services from to or, which included a section of ' tube ' line built to take standard size trains between and Moorgate, they are built to a slightly smaller loading gauge than conventional trains.

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The Moorgate tube crash was a railway disaster on the London Underground that occurred on 28 February 1975 at 8: 46 am.

The eventual adoption of slow speed control when approaching dead-end platforms as part of Train Protection & Warning System was due to the Moorgate tube crash.

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* Moorgate tube station

Passenger services operated across London through the Snow Hill Tunnel from mid-Victorian times until World War I, from when services terminated at Moorgate from the Midland line to the north, and at Holborn Viaduct from the south, at a time when most inner cross-London traffic had been lost to buses and trams.

In the early 19th century, the southern end of the street was renamed Moorgate, by the City of London – and the name change marked the boundary, but today, due to boundary changes, most of the street is within the City's Coleman Street ward.

A train service runs from Palmers Green railway station, operated by First Capital Connect, with southbound trains running on weekdays to Moorgate and on weekends, early mornings and late evenings to Kings Cross.

The Northern City Line is a railway line from Moorgate to Finsbury Park in London, once part of the Great Northern Electrics line.

Moorgate station ( formerly Moorgate Street ) is a central London railway terminus and London Underground station on Moorgate in the City of London ; it provides National Rail services by First Capital Connect for Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth and also serves the Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan Lines and the Bank branch of the Northern Line.

Services ran from Moorgate to London Victoria via Holborn Viaduct railway station, Camberwell New Road and Brixton and South Stockwell to Grosvenor Road.

Drayton Park railway station is on the Network Rail Northern City Line which carries First Capital Connect services between Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City or Hertford via Finsbury Park.

alt = The railway line is in the shape of the letter C. The top of the C, between Kensington ( High Street ) in the west and Moorgate Street in the east was run by the Metropolitan Railway, and the bottom of the C, between South Kensington and Mansion House by the District.

As well as Moorgate, the closest mainline railway station is Liverpool Street, a short distance to the east which also has an integrated London Underground station.

Cuffley railway station provides a commuter service to Moorgate and connects to King's Cross in the evenings and at weekends, services operated by First Capital Connect.

John Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795, to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats.

The Moorgate branch closed in March 2009 when major work on the Thameslink programme started along with various other changes.

The first S7 Stock train entered passenger service on the Hammersmith & City Line on 6 July 2012, running a shuttle service between Hammersmith and Moorgate.

On 1 October 1863, the GNR began a shuttle service from King's Cross to Farringdon Street via the city widened lines, but through suburban services did not use this line until 1 March 1868, and then were extended to Moorgate Street on 1 June 1869.

The Northern Line station opened on 25 February 1900 as part of the City & South London Railway's ( C & SLR's ) revised route from Borough to Bank and Moorgate.

From 1 August 1872, the Middle Circle service also began operations through South Kensington, running from Moorgate along the MR's tracks on the north side of the Inner Circle to Paddington, then over the Hammersmith & City Railway ( H & CR ) track to Latimer Road, then, via a now demolished link, on the WLEJR to Addison Road and the MDR to Mansion House.

Ormskirk also has an indoor market situated on Moorgate.

The City Widened Lines project, completed in 1868 built quadruple track from King's Cross to Moorgate, with platforms on both lines at all the stations.

From 1 August 1872, the Middle Circle service also began operations through South Kensington, running from Moorgate along the MR's tracks on the north side of the Inner Circle to Paddington, then over the Hammersmith & City Railway ( H & CR ) track to Latimer Road, then, via a now demolished link, on the WLEJR to Addison Road and the MDR to Mansion House.

Trains are operated by First Capital Connect and run every 20 minutes Monday to Friday south to London Moorgate and north to Hitchin and Stevenage, with a weekend service of every 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday south to London's Kings Cross and north to Hitchin and Stevenage.

It was one of the stations built when the City & South London Railway ( C & SLR ) ( now part of the Northern line ) opened its extension from Moorgate to Angel on 17 November 1901.

From 1 August 1872, the Middle Circle service also began operations through South Kensington, running from Moorgate along the MR's tracks on the north side of the Inner Circle to Paddington, then over the Hammersmith & City Railway ( H & CR ) track to Latimer Road, then, via a now demolished link, on the WLEJR to Addison Road and the MDR to Mansion House.

* Hertford North ( on the Hertford Loop Line ) has a service every 20 minutes off-peak to London Moorgate station ( taking 50 minutes ), via Finsbury Park ( change for King's Cross ) and hourly northwards to Stevenage ( for onward connections via the East Coast Main Line ) and Letchworth ( change for Cambridge ), services operated by First Capital Connect.

Map of London Wall, Moorgate, Moorfields and Bethlem Royal Hospital from John Rocque's Map of London, dated 1746.

After the UERL and the Metropolitan Railway ( MR ) were brought under public control in the form of the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) in 1933, the MR's subsidiary, the Great Northern & City Railway, which ran from Moorgate to Finsbury Park, became part of the Underground as the Northern City Line.

He was buried in Bunhill Fields Cemetery in Moorgate, London where many Nonconformists lie.

City of London College subsequently moved into premises at 84 Moorgate in 1944.

The Great Northern & City Railway was planned to allow trains to run from the Great Northern Railway line at Finsbury Park directly into the City of London at Moorgate.

After Old Street it continues south, continuing past Bunhill Fields and the Honourable Artillery Company, then in quick succession turns into Finsbury Square, Finsbury Pavement, then Moorgate, the latter beginning at the border with the City of London.

Nearby London Underground stations are, and Moorgate.

West Anglia Great Northern operated all stops and limited stops West Anglia services out of London Liverpool Street to Chingford, Enfield, Hertford East, Stansted Airport, and Cambridge, and all stops and limited stops Great Northern services out of London King's Cross and London Moorgate to Cambridge, King's Lynn and Peterborough.

* England: London's Roman and Medieval gates of the London Wall: Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Aldgate

There is also a direct train to London Kings Cross at weekends when Moorgate Station is closed.