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Barbican is one of very few tube stations the name of which is a common noun as well as a location. Angel, Temple and Oval (which is also an adjective)are three others. A Barbican is a fortified gateway.

Waterhouse | 14.06.13 - 7:13 a.m. | #

Stand outside Barbican Station any evening and watch perplexed visitors trying to figure out the way to the Barbican Centre. Answer. Follow the yellow line up the stairs onto the Barbican High Walks or cross the road and walk through the Beech Street tunnel.

Peter Twist | Homepage | 14.06.13 - 7:49 a.m. | #

Barbican is one of 33 tube stations not to have a street level building/ticket office.

There are also two staircases up/down from the eastbound platform, but only one to/from the westbound.

geofftech | Homepage | 14.06.13 - 8:16 a.m. | #

The station was also bombed in 1897 ...
http://catsmeatshop.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/aldersgate-underground-bomb.html

Lee | Homepage | 14.06.13 - 9:08 a.m. | #

though the original roof canopy was removed following damage in WW2, the decorative brackets remain at high level above the two side canopies

amber | 14.06.13 - 9:21 a.m. | #

There's an empty Thameslink Programme billboard with a First Capital Connect logo on it near the top of the stairs - you'd think they would have removed it by now wouldn't you?

Perhaps more interestingly, there's a suspciously new looking "Platform 4" sign that I believe recently appeared. I say "believe" - I use the station daily and just one day noticed it and thought "was that there before?" I even looked at this photo on Wikipedia from 2011 which doesn't appear to have the Platform 4 sign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Barbican_tube_station_MMB_02.jpg

The sign is standard LU issue - but has no line branding on it. Which makes you wonder... why put up a platform number sign on a platform that passengers haven't been able to use for years?

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 14.06.13 - 10:03 a.m. | #

Oh, there you go. It was put up in the summer last year. Took me about six months to notice it then.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/7826327292/

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 14.06.13 - 10:15 a.m. | #

The newest part of the Metropolitan Line is the section between Barbican and Moorgate, diverted onto a new alignment in 1965 to allow construction of the Barbican Centre on the old alignment.

| 14.06.13 - 11:42 a.m. | #

No facts, just fond memories; in the late 80s when I was a nipper my Dad and I used to while away afternoons exploring the passageways of the Barbican Centre, and following the yellow lines from station to complex. However as most of our visits were Sundays, Barbican station was a slightly mythical always-closed place; Moorgate was our alighting point from home in Wembley.

Carlbob | Homepage | 14.06.13 - 12:20 p.m. | #

There is a memorial plaque to the station cat on a column in the booking hall.

Marc | 14.06.13 - 1:21 p.m. | #

On 4 April 1915, the body of seven-year-old Margaret Nally was found in the ladies' cloakroom at what was then Aldersgate Street Station; she had been sexually assaulted and suffocated with a cloth pushed down her throat.

Luke Treherne | 14.06.13 - 5:44 p.m. | #











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