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Location: Cannon Street
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| Entrance from Dowgate Hill |
Managed by: Network Rail
Station code: CST
Number of platforms: 7
Cannon Street station
Cannon Street station, also known as London Cannon Street,[4] is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station located on Cannon Street in the City of London. It is built on the site of a medieval steelyard, the trading base in England of the Hanseatic League.
History of Cannon Street station:
Opened by the South Eastern Railway on 1 September 1866, the original station building was designed by Sir John Hawkshaw and J.W. Barry and was characterised by its two Wren-style towers, 23 ft (7.0 m) square and 135 ft (41 m) high, which faced on to the River Thames. The towers supported a 700 ft (210 m) long iron train shed crowned by a high single arch, almost semicircular, of glass and iron. To this was joined in 1867 an Italianate style hotel and forecourt designed by E.M. Barry which provided much of the station's passenger facilities as well as an impressive architectural frontispiece to the street. This arrangement was very similar to that put in place at Charing Cross. The station is carried on a brick viaduct over Upper Thames Street. Below this viaduct there are remains of a number of Roman buildings, which form a scheduled ancient monument......Wikipedia >>
