| Summary : The Metropolitan Railway's extension to Moorgate Street opened on 23rd December 1865. On 25th February 1900 the extension of the City and South London line to Moorgate opened. The new station at Moorgate on the corner of Moor Place and Moorgate itself is by far the largest structure designed by T Phillips Figgis for the C&SLR, and in addition to the station facilities the upper floors contained the railway company's general offices. Portland stone was used to face the ground floor, with some carved work including foliage details in the Arts and Crafts style, and the company's crest over the office entrance. Upper walls were of red brick with stone bands and green slates to the roof. The ticket hall interior was finished in polished teak and tiles, and four lifts carried passengers down to the platforms. In 1904 the station became the southern terminus on the Great Northern and City Railway's short line to Finsbury Park. In the 1930s the entrances were rebuilt, and other alterations including the blocking of former window voids. In 1975 services on the former Great Northern and City line, then operated as part of the Northern line, ceased and the line was transferred to British Railways in 1976 for the through running of electric trains from Moorgate to Hertfordshire. |