Old Street Station

Old Street
Station entrance
Old Street Location of Old Street in Central London
Location	Old Street
Local authority	Islington
Managed by	London Underground
Station code	OLD
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2009	19.60 million
2012	21.88 million
2013	21.86 million
2014	23.28 million
2015	25.14 million
National Rail annual entry and exit
2011–12	1.337 million
2012–13	1.396 million
2013–14	1.456 million
2014–15	1.682 million
2015–16	3.611 million
Key dates
1901	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°31′33″N 0°05′14″W / 51.52581°N 0.08709°W / 51.52581; -0.08709Coordinates: 51°31′33″N 0°05′14″W / 51.52581°N 0.08709°W / 51.52581; -0.08709

Old Street station is a National Rail and London Underground interchange station in Islington, London, at the junction of Old Street and City Road, just outside of the City of London. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

On the National Rail network it is on the Northern City Line, 45 chains (0.91 km) down-line from Moorgate, and is served by Great Northern. Although a through-station on this route, for ticketing purposes Old Street is considered a central London terminus. On the Underground, it is on the Bank (eastern) branch of the Northern line, between Moorgate and Angel.

At the surface, the station is under the eastern edge of the Old Street Roundabout. There is no street-level station building, access being by ramps and stairs to a modern station entrance which is adjacent to a small shopping parade beneath. The original ground-level buildings were removed when the roundabout was constructed. Expanding its catchment, on the Northern line between Old Street and Angel is a disused station named City Road.

The National Rail station was previously only open on weekdays, but Great Northern introduced a weekend service in 2015.

The station was opened in November 1901 by the first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, as part of an extension of its line from Moorgate to Angel. The Northern City Line platforms were opened in February 1904 by the Great Northern & City Railway which built its tunnels to a larger diameter capable of accommodating main line trains in the hope of carrying trains from its northern terminus at the Great Northern Railway's Finsbury Park station to Moorgate. This eventually happened in the 1970s, with the line becoming a British Rail route, with through-services to Hertford and Welwyn Garden City.