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Location: Fenchurch Street
Local authority: City of London
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| Main entrance on Fenchurch Place |
Station code: FST
Number of platforms: 4
Fenchurch Street railway station
Fenchurch Street railway station, also known as London Fenchurch Street, is a central London railway terminus located on Fenchurch Place, off Fenchurch Street, in the southeastern corner of the City of London. It is one of the smallest railway termini in London in terms of platforms but one of the most intensively operated.
Uniquely among London termini, Fenchurch Street does not have a direct link to the London Underground,
although a secondary entrance on Cooper's Row (also known as the Tower entrance) is close to Tower Hill tube station and Tower Gateway DLR station, while Aldgate tube station is also nearby. It is one of 17 railway stations in the United Kingdom managed by Network Rail.
History of Fenchurch Street railway station:
The station was the first to be constructed inside the City of London; the original was designed by William Tite and opened on 20 July 1841[8] for the London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR), replacing a nearby terminus at Minories that had opened in July 1840.
The station was rebuilt in 1854, following a design by George Berkley, adding a vaulted roof and the main façade. The station became the London terminus of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR) in 1858; additionally, from 1850 until the opening of Broad Street station in 1865 it was also the City terminus of the North London Railway. The Great Eastern Railway (GER) used the station as an alternative to an increasingly overcrowded station at Liverpool Street for the last part of the 19th and first half of the 20th century over the routes of the former Eastern Counties Railway.[9] The L&BR effectively closed in 1926 after the cessation of passenger services east of Stepney. When the former Eastern Counties lines transferred to the Central line in 1948 the LT&SR became the sole user of the station......Wikipedia >>
