Elizabeth Line comes to Farringdon
Elizabeth Line increases accessibility to London Metropolitan Archives
The May 2022 opening of the Elizabeth Line (previously known as Crossrail) has had many benefits to London and its visitors. With the new line stopping at Farringdon this greatly enhances direct access to LMA’s nearest station. Our parent organisation, the City of London Corporation, gave £200 million towards its construction and has also led on the project to provide artwork for the central stations. In a similar way it helped support the original Metropolitan Line, the first underground railway in the world, which ran from Paddington to Farringdon in 1863.
Farringdon has a new station within a station. For LMA use the Western (Cowcross Street) entrance. The station is now fully accessible. There are artworks depicting diamonds which reflects the close proximity of the jewellery district in Hatton Garden just to the west of Farringdon Road.
LMA is a 10-minute walk from Farringdon station. The easiest way is to walk up Farringdon Road and turn right into Bowling Green Lane just opposite the Linked-In building, then first left onto Northampton Road. Follow the road round to the right beside a pleasant park to the front entrance.
There are more picturesque (and quieter) routes across Clerkenwell Green and through Clerkenwell Close which you can explore at your leisure, there being several historic pubs on the route (The Crown, The Three Kings and The Horseshoe).
You can now get to LMA’s nearest station at Farringdon direct from well over 100 stations across Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex and Surrey as well as most London Boroughs.
Details about the Elizabeth Line:
The new railway built by Crossrail Ltd will stop at 41 stations – 10 of them new – and is expected to serve up to 200 million people each year. Services will run every five minutes. All stations are accessible, staffed and later this year will have wifi available. The trains are light and spacious with air conditioning, and provide a comfortable way to travel through London.
40 stations will connect with Farringdon and the completion date for all through trains is May 2023. Currently only the central section between Paddington and Abbey Wood is direct access without changing. 37 of these 40 stations are new direct connections to Farringdon, and include Heathrow, Reading, Ealing Broadway, Stratford, Canary Wharf, Woolwich and Shenfield. The line serves 11 London Boroughs, The City and 3 historic counties. All of the stations have a journey time of less than 60 minutes to Farringdon.
Everything you need to know about the Elizabeth line - Transport for London
So next time you visit LMA why not have a ride on London’s newest railway?