Exciting changes at Farringdon

Farringdon station is being transformed (see what your new station will look like.)

You can see the changes in the video clip above but please remember:

• The station stays open and First Capital Connect trains continue to serve Farringdon (apart from when there are planned closures of the cross-London route and Tube services via Farringdon).  

New Thameslink ticket hall

A fabulous new ticket hall is now open for Thameslink route services.

Original station entrance

The main entrance to the London Underground station in Cowcross Street is closed for refurbishment of the Tube concourse, ticket office and ticket gates.

Tube passengers are being redirected to the Turnmill Street side entrance (see map below) where a new circulation area gives extra direct access to Tube services on platform 1 as well as the new footbridge that also gives off to platform 2 and the Thameslink route platforms 3 and 4.

The original main entrance in Cowcross Street reopens after refurbishment on Monday, 6 February. The concourse inside will be wider, having been extended over platforms 3 and 4 (it had previously been extended over platforms 1 and 2), and link directly into the Tube concourse off Turnmill Street.

In the following weeks, London Underground's temporary ticket office will be dismantled and moved back into the new ticket office inside the Cowcross Street concourse.

Lifts will be brought into service across the station in the spring which is when First Capital Connect's ticket office will open and the heritage shop fronts be revealed.

Turnmill Street entrance

This entrance is now open at all times the Tube is running, rather than just at rush hour as before.

Crossrail services

From 2018, the ticket hall will also provide access to east-west Crossrail services.

Moorgate branch

The Thameslink route Moorgate branch has also closed which has made the station more congested.