Northern City Line
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The Northern City Line is a former name for the railway line from Moorgate to Finsbury Park in London, once part of the Great Northern Electrics line. It should not be confused with the City branch of the Northern Line, nor with the North London Line. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The East Coast Main Line viaduct at Durham. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Finsbury Park Station is a busy transport interchange in North London. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The East Coast Main Line viaduct at Durham. ... Kings Cross station (often spelt Kings Cross on platform signs) is a railway station in the district of the same name in northeast central London. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Drayton Park station is on Network Rails Northern City Line which carries WAGN services between Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City or Hertford via Finsbury Park. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The original Northern City Line station entrance, opposite the current entrance Highbury & Islington station is a National Rail and London Underground station, in the London Borough of Islington in North London. ... The North London Line is a railway line through northern London. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Essex Road station is a Network Rail station in Islington. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Old Street station entrance and (inset) its shopping arcade Old Street station is a London Underground and railway station just north of the City, lying on the border between Islington and Hackney. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Moorgate station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the City of London, on Moorgate, north of London Wall. ... This Thameslink article does not cite its references or sources. ... Moorgate station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the City of London, on Moorgate, north of London Wall. ... Finsbury Park station is a busy and often chaotic transport interchange in north London, which consists of two London Underground lines (the Piccadilly Line and the Victoria Line), a national rail station and two bus stations, one on each side of the railway station. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Northern Line (disambiguation). ... The North London Line is a railway line through northern London. ...

The line was formerly part of London Underground, and during its history has been part of both the Metropolitan and Northern Lines, although it is connected to neither. It is now part of the National Rail network and is owned by Network Rail. Passenger services along the line are operated as part of the First Capital Connect franchise. The London Underground is an electric railway system that covers much of Greater London and some neighbouring areas. ... London Transport Portal The Metropolitan Line is part of the London Underground, coloured violet on the Tube map. ... For other uses, see Northern Line (disambiguation). ... National Rail uses the BR double-arrow logo National Rail is a brand name of the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC). ... Network Rail is a British not for dividend company limited by guarantee whose principal asset is Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, a company limited by shares. ... First Capital Connect is a train operating company in England that began its passenger operations on the National Rail network at 02:00 BST 1 April 2006. ...

The line is underground from Moorgate to just south of Drayton Park, and runs in a cutting from there until meeting the East Coast Main Line south of Finsbury Park. Trains on the line run north to Hertford North, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage or Letchworth Garden City, forming the inner suburban service of the First Capital Connect Great Northern route. Drayton Park station is on Network Rails Northern City Line which carries WAGN services between Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City or Hertford via Finsbury Park. ... The East Coast Main Line viaduct at Durham. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Welwyn Garden City railway station serves the town of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. ... Stevenage railway station serves the town of Stevenage in Hertfordshire. ... The entrance to the station Letchworth Garden City railway station serves the town of Letchworth in Hertfordshire. ... First Capital Connect is a train operating company in England that began its passenger operations on the National Rail network at 02:00 BST 1 April 2006. ... Great Northern may refer to: the Great Northern Diver, Gavia adamsii, a bird the Great Northern War, a war fought by Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland against Sweden the Great Northern Railway, an Irish railway the Great Northern Railway, a United States railroad the Great Northern Railway, a British...

The line is electrified — 25 kV overhead as far south as Drayton Park and 750 V third rail from there to Moorgate, due to the tube tunnels not having clearance for overhead electrification. Services are operated by Class 313 electric multiple units, the only units certified for use on the line. These trains are built to standard length and width, but are lower than conventional trains to allow them to operate in the tube tunnels, as are Class 314, 315, 507 and 508 units built to the same standard design, although with variations in train length and the power supply they operate from. Also, in keeping with the UK regulations for trains operating in single track tunnels, they have emergency doors at each end of the train, and are also designed so that when operating on 750v DC the two motor coaches are electrically separate as far as the traction supply goes, in that, unlike other contemporary units, there are no DC traction supply jumper cables between carriages. // Railway electrification in Great Britain describes the various electrification systems that are used, or have been used, for supplying traction current to the railways and tramways of Great Britain. ... Josephson junction array chip developed by NIST as a standard volt. ... Third rail at the West Falls Church Metro stop in Washington, D.C., electrified to 750 volts. ... Class 313/0, no. ... A multiple unit is a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors, either diesel (DMUs) or electric (EMUs), and do not need to be hauled by a locomotive. ...

History

The line was originally named the Great Northern & City Railway, and was intended to allow mainline trains of the Great Northern Railway to run from Finsbury Park directly into the City of London at Moorgate. Accordingly, the tubes were made large enough to take a main-line train, unlike those of the other tube railways being built in London at the time. However, the Great Northern was lukewarm about the scheme, and the GN&CR had to settle for a northern terminus in tube underneath Finsbury Park station. The line opened in 1904. It was originally electrified with an unusual fourth-rail system featuring a conductor rail outside each running rail. This was altered to the standard LT arrangement at a later date. The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company, founded by the London & York Railway Act of 1846. ... Finsbury Park Station is a busy transport interchange in North London. ... The City of London is a geographically-small city within Greater London, England. ... Moorgate station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the City of London, on Moorgate, north of London Wall. ...

The GN&CR was bought in 1913 by the Metropolitan Railway, which operated today's Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and East London Lines. The Met made various plans to link it to some point on the Circle Line or to the Waterloo & City Line, but these never came to fruition. London Transport Portal The Metropolitan Line is part of the London Underground, coloured violet on the Tube map. ... The Hammersmith and City Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured salmon pink on the Tube map, running between Hammersmith and Aldgate East, extending to Barking in the rush hours. ... The East London Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured orange on the Tube map. ... The Circle Line of the London Underground became known as such in 1949, when it was separated from its parent lines, the Metropolitan Line and the District Line, although it had been shown on Underground maps since 1947. ... The Waterloo & City Line is a short underground metro line in London, formally opened on 11 July 1898. ...

After the Metropolitan was nationalised (along with the other underground lines) in 1933, the line was renamed the Northern City Line and became part of the Edgware-Morden Line (which became the Northern Line in 1937) for operational purposes. As part of London Underground's "New Works" programme, plans were made to connect the Northern City Line to the surface at Finsbury Park, and then join suburban branches to Alexandra Palace, High Barnet and Edgware. The Highgate branch of the Edgware-Morden Line would be connected to this network north of Highgate. By the time the Second World War started, the Highgate link and electrification of the Barnet branch were well under way, but work on the Northern City link was postponed. For other uses, see Northern Line (disambiguation). ... Alexandra Palace from the south Alexandra Palace was built in an area spanning Wood Green and Muswell Hill, North London, England in 1873 as a public entertainment centre and North London counterpart of The Crystal Palace. ... This article is about the town in London. ... Edgware is a is suburb situated 9. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

This "Northern Heights" plan was dropped after the war, and the Northern City Line remained isolated from the rest of the network. Services were cut back from Finsbury Park to Drayton Park in 1964 to make room for the Victoria Line to use the platforms at Finsbury Park (Low level). The former Piccadilly Line platforms are now the northbound Piccadilly/Victoria line platforms, and the former Northern City Line platforms are the southbound Piccadilly and Victoria line ones (of course, today trains once more go from Drayton Park to Finsbury Park, but to the high level station). In 1970 the line was renamed Northern Line (Highbury Branch). The following year, an agreement was made to transfer the line to British Rail and connect it (as was intended by its original promoters) to the main line at Finsbury Park. The last London Underground services ran in October 1975, and British Rail services commenced in August 1976. These BR services used the name "Great Northern Electrics". The track is now owned by Network Rail, and services to Hertford North (some extending to Stevenage and Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City are provided by First Capital Connect. The name "Northern City Line" has been revived to refer to the underground part of the route. The Victoria Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured light blue on the Tube map. ... Finsbury Park Station is a busy transport interchange in North London. ... The Piccadilly Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. ... Logo of British Rail British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ... The Hertford Loop is a branch of the East Coast Main Line. ... Stevenage railway station serves the town of Stevenage in Hertfordshire. ... The entrance to the station Letchworth Garden City railway station serves the town of Letchworth in Hertfordshire. ... Statistics Population: 55,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TL245135 Administration District: Welwyn Hatfield Shire county: Hertfordshire Region: East of England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Hertfordshire Historic county: Hertfordshire Services Police force: {{{Police}}} Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: East of England Post office and... First Capital Connect is a train operating company in England that began its passenger operations on the National Rail network at 02:00 BST 1 April 2006. ...

The Moorgate tube crash, the most serious railway accident on the London Underground system, occurred at Moorgate station on 28 February 1975, when a Highbury Branch train ran into the terminus at speed and crashed into the dead end of the tunnel beyond. The cause of the accident, which killed 43 people, was never determined. The Moorgate tube crash was a railway accident on the London Underground which occurred at 8. ... Moorgate station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the City of London, on Moorgate, north of London Wall. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

The original generating station for the GN&CR was closed when the Metropolitan Railway took over, and became the studio of Gainsborough Pictures. After lying derelict for many years, it became a temporary venue for the Almeida Theatre, and has been redeveloped as apartments. Gainsborough Pictures was a film studio based in Poole Street, Hoxton in the London Borough of Hackney, active between 1924 and 1951. ... Founded in 1980, the Almeida Theatre has become one of the key theatres in London. ...

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