Liverpool Street — Attraction in London

The new Elisabeth line station is great! Love the design concept.

Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street,6 is a major central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without. It is the terminus of the West Anglia Main Line to Cambridge, the Great Eastern Main Line to Norwich, commuter trains serving east London and destinations in the East of England, and the Stansted Express service to Stansted Airport.

The station opened in 1874, as a replacement for Bishopsgate station as the Great Eastern Railway's main London terminus. By 1895, it had the most platforms of any London terminal station. During the First World War, an air raid on the station killed 16 on site, and 146 others in nearby areas. In the build-up to the Second World War, the station served as the entry point for thousands of child refugees arriving in London as part of the Kindertransport rescue mission . The station was damaged by the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing and, during the 7 July 2005 bombing, seven passengers were killed when a bomb exploded aboard an Underground train, just after it had departed from Liverpool Street. New platforms for the Elizabeth line opened in 2022 as part of the Crossrail project.8]

Liverpool Street was built as a dual-level station, with provision for the Underground. A tube station opened in 1875 for the Metropolitan Railway; the tube station is now served by the Central, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. It is in fare zone 1 and is managed directly by Network Rail.[9] With 80.4 million passengers between March 2022 and April 2023, it was the busiest station in the United Kingdom, according to the Office of Rail and Road.

Liverpool Street station was built as the new London terminus of the Great Eastern Railway (GER) which served Norwich and King's Lynn.[10] The GER had been formed from the merger of several railway companies, inheriting Bishopsgate as its London terminus. Bishopsgate was inadequate for the company's passenger traffic; its Shoreditch location was in the heart of one of the poorest slums in London and hence badly situated for the City of London commuters the company wanted to attract.[11] Consequently, the GER planned a more central station .[12 The original intention was to build a terminus which reached as far south as the road London Wall, and which would be as tall as the Broad Street station which was being planned at the same time, however the city authorities did not permit the more southerly location.[14]

By 1865, plans changed to include a circa 1-mile (1.6 km) long line branching from the main line east of the company's existing terminus in Shoreditch, and a new station at Liverpool Street as the main terminus, with Bishopsgate station to be used for freight traffic. The station at Liverpool Street (the street had been named after the Tory Prime Minister Robert , 2nd Earl of Liverpool in 1829) was to be built for the use of the GER and of the East London Railway on two levels, with the underground East London line around 37 ft (11 m) below this, and the GER tracks supported on brick arches. The station was planned. to be around 630 by 200 ft (192 by 61 m) in area, with its main façade onto Liverpool Street and an additional entrance on Bishopsgate-Street (now called and forming part of the A10). The main train shed was to be a two-span wood construction with a central void providing light and ventilation to the lower station, and the station buildings were to be in an Italianate style to the designs of the GER's...

Dear British railway

I have to file a complaint on one of your staff who is in charge of handling ticket issues as I went through critically painful experience with him-Inspector ID:GA1225

I took the overground train for the first time during this trip in London and missed my original destination at bethnal green and arrived at Liverpool street. I asked one staff if I could upgrade the ticket for one another stop, then I was told that I'd have to speak to the staff ID:GA1225

As I first spoke with him and ask if I could either pay for additional fee for adding one more train stop (counting from bethnal green) or possibly go back there and exit, and he said "No, you can't do that. You'd have to pay the penalty 20 pounds " so I said "can I possibly go back to bethnal green as I just missed one stop" and he said "where's your ticket"I took out my ticket out and then he immediately grabbed my ticket forcefully and said "pay by credit or card??"

I was in shock as I had never seen anybody so physically aggressive and yet ride person like that, I told him to "please return my ticket! You cannot do that" and he said he's a police man and he has the right to do this, I asked him to show me the police badge and he very quickly flashed something, which was of course not a police badge as he's not the one.

I asked his ID and he was only repeating and shouting "pay by cash or credit card!?' and I asked for his name as i wanted to file a complaint at this point, he wouldn't tell his name so I saw his card with his name on so i asked him to show it to me and he flipped around and hide under his hand. I took my phone and  tried to record this incident as evidence and then he immediately came up very close to me very aggressively and tried to grab my phone violently!!!! What is exactly going on at this train station??? And then I told him I'd hire a lawyer and file lawsuit then he just walked away with my ticket.

I asked for help from police men and then I paid for the penalty charge of twenty pounds but I honestly and strongly believe no one should ever go through the painful events that o had to go through. Please address this issue, I came to London for vacation and now am wondering what kind of country allows such violent and barbarian...

This is a gorgeous historical station. The architecture is lovely, particularly if you notice as trains leave the station. The ceilings are expanse.

As a daily commuter and someone that often travels for business, I think this station has great links.

This is home to 18 platforms with overground trains going to various regions. Tube links are pretty good serving the Central, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City. The Stansted Express also runs to and from this station. The bus services directly outside.

There are multiple shops and cafés to kill time whilst waiting to commute.

There are also several entrances / exits to reach different areas of the City. Whilst waiting for overgrounds you will find lots of seating areas dotted conveniently around. The message boards are usually on point and up-to-date.

ATM's are also available within the station. There are public restrooms which I believe is charged at 30p a visit - it may be more. These are located on the lower ground floor, although manned regularly, it could do with a refurb.

Some members of staff at the ticket desks could do with re-training on manners and being courteous. Some just seem bored and uninterested. There are a handful of helpful staff.

There is one ramp that I know of that allows disabled access and a lift, I'm unsure how many lifts are in the station.

Do remember this review is regarding the station, not the train services - that's a whole other review.

The station is currently undergoing an expansion due to crossrail services. I anticipate a busier station once completed.

If memory serves correctly, I do believe it was featured in Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible, although the phone box used in the scene has since been modernised....🤔

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