Moorgate station
Moorgate  
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Entrance to Moorgate prior to Crossrail works
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 Moorgate
Location of Moorgate in Central London
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| Location | Moorgate |
| Local authority | City of London |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Owner |
Transport for London Network Rail |
| Station code | MOG |
| DfT category | E |
| Number of platforms | 8 |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2012 |
 20.59 million |
| 2013 |
 21.38 million |
| 2014 |
25.90 million |
| 2015 |
26.06 million |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
7.617 million |
| – interchange |
0.620 million |
| 2012–13 |
7.997 million |
| – interchange |
0.558 million |
| 2013–14 |
9.052 million |
| – interchange | [x.yyy] million |
| 2014–15 |
9.398 million |
| – interchange | 0.580 million |
| 2015–16 |
8.850 million |
| – interchange |
0.440 million |
| Key dates | |
| 1865 | Opened (MR) |
| 1900 | Opened (C&SLR) |
| 1904 | Opened (GN&CR) |
| 24 October 1924 | renamed Moorgate |
| 2009 | Withdrawn (Thameslink) |
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| WGS84 | 51°31′07″N 0°05′19″W / 51.5186°N 0.0886°WCoordinates: 51°31′07″N 0°05′19″W / 51.5186°N 0.0886°W |
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Moorgate is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station on Moorgate in the City of London. Weekday main line railway services for Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth are operated by Great Northern, while the Underground station is served by the Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan and Northern lines.
The station was opened as Moorgate Street in 1865 by the Metropolitan Railway. In 1900 the City & South London Railway added the station to its network and the Great Northern & City Railway began serving the station in 1904. In 1975 the Northern City Line platforms were the site of the Moorgate tube crash in which 43 people were killed—the worst accident in the history of the London Underground.
The station has entrances on both Moorgate itself and Moorfields, which runs parallel.
While the public entrances from the street give access to all the train services at the station, there are three distinct levels.
The Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines of the Underground system all use platforms 1 and 2, which are through platforms. For terminating trains at busy times, there are platforms 3 and 4 which are west-facing bays. Adjacent to these are platforms 5 and 6 of the former Thameslink trains service from Bedford and Luton. These are disused following the closure of the Moorgate branch from Farringdon junction as part of the Thameslink programme and are now used for the storage of permanent way material.
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