Northern / Northern City Line

 

MOORGATE

 

Most of the (existing) tube stations in London that have had their lift shafts replaced with escalators, will still have the old lift shafts and access passageways still in existence. Some are used for ventilation purposes, some for cabling, some just collect soot.

Moorgate has more disused passageways than most existing stations, owing to the replacement of the separate lift shafts and passages for both the Northern and Northern City lines, as well as the interconnecting passageways to the Metropolitan Line.

 

 

NORTHERN LINE

The Northern Line (or City & South London Railway as it was then) had its lifts replaced by escalators in 1924 (the work took place while the line was closed for tunnel widening). The passageway on the left leads from the platforms (behind the camera) to the old lift shafts. The steps on the right lead up to the emergency stairs.

(photo: 2008)

 

 

 

The emergency stairs. They are blocked off at surface level but they have a mid-level passageway branching off that used to lead to the Metropolitan line.

(photo: 2008)

 

 

 


View of the passageway that lead to the Metropolitan line, looking back in the direction of the emergency stairs seen above.

(photo: 2008)

 

 

 


The sign visible in the photograph above. Note some of the locations whose lines were under Metropolitan Line ownership or had Metropolitan Line service at that time.

(photo: 2008)

 

 

 


Returning to the passageway that led from the platforms to the old lift shafts.

(photo: 2008)

 

 

 


One of the City & South London Railway's lift shafts in 2008, some eighty five years after closure to passenger service.

 

 

 

The passageway on the other side of the lift shafts.

(photo: 2008)

 

 

 

Facing the other way. This direction led back to the platforms. The small gap on the left hand side of the new brickwork leads to...

(photo: 2008)

 

 

 


...a further part of the passageway, now sealed off.

(photo: 2008)

 

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Moorgate - Pt.2  (Northern City Line)