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Blackfriars station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the City of London. It is close to Blackfriars Bridge at the junction of New Bridge Street and Queen Victoria Street. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. The Underground station was closed until 2011 while refurbishment and major engineering works took place.
- The Views
- The Solars
- The Wall of Destinations
- The 'Secret' Entrance
- The Unofficial Waiting Room
- The Artwork
- The Reused Pillars
- Pantographic Antics
- The Station Is Impressive from Beneath as Well
- And Finally... The Nervous Ticket Machine
An obvious one to start. The southbound platform offers one of London's best vistas, taking in St Paul's, the City towers, a string of bridges, distant Canary Wharf, the Shard, the Globe and Tate Modern. I've heard gasps of wonderment emanate from those stepping from a train. I gave one myself upon my return to central London after a year's pandemi...
Besides the views, Blackfriars Railway Bridge is most notable for its roof of solar panels — the largest on a bridge anywhere in the world and enough to generate about half the station's energy needs. We could trot out the usual list of comparatives — size of 23 tennis courts; generate enough electricity for 30 million cups of tea per year — but to...
While most of the bridge is a sparkly modern rebuild, one heritage feature takes pride of place in the main concourse. This wall of destinations was part of the original 1886 station, an ambitious list that includes many European destinations beside local commuter towns. Would you choose Lucerne or Sevenoaks? A jaunt to Vienna, or a day trip to She...
Anyone who uses Blackfriars knows there's an exit down to the South Bank. But did you know it's possible to get all the way down to the northern riverside without walking along any roads? To find it, get off the train and head north, but don't go down the escalators. Instead, carry on and bear right to find the upper-exit onto Queen Victoria Street...
You might know it as the Blackfriar pub. We call it the Thameslink waiting room. This unforgettable art nouveau, Grade II listed pub is just 10 seconds from the station entrance (if you time the pedestrian crossing right). That's close enough to consider it a station pub, right?
To be fair, the station could use a bit of an artistic uplift. For its many wonders, Blackfriars is very modern and functional, with few corners that could be called charming. One exception is the western exit onto the South Bank, which is decorated with this mural by Jimmy C (whose most famous work is the mural of Shakespearea little downriver nea...
So, those pillars. You've no doubt noticed them yourself. They once formed the supports to an earlier incarnation of the railway bridge from 1864, whose disused spans were taken down in the 1980s. The pillars march out across the Thames in pairs, but it used to be triplets. The most-downriver pillars were subsumed into the structure of the modern b...
Pantographs are the articulated structures on top of trains that brush against the overhead wires to draw power. A much-photographed sign at Farringdon reminds drivers to "drop the pantograph", because the following stations use track power rather than overhead cables. Another sign at the next station, City Thameslink (see photo), is less funny bec...
It's easy to get down to the foreshore at Blackfriars. A handy set of steps can be found in front of Tate Modern. Once down there, take the trouble to wander over to Blackfriars Rail Bridge and look up. This under-appreciated view is as striking as that of any bridge on the Thames.
Head beyond the escalators to the 'secret' entrance we mentioned above, and you'll spot London's most timid ticket machine. So few people pass this way that it's hardly ever called upon to dispense a ticket. The machine has got so shy of human contact that it actually wets itself whenever anyone approaches. We might be getting a bit desperate for o...
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Blackfriars was a short-lived railway station on the South Eastern Railway (SER) line, in the parish of Southwark Christchurch, between Charing Cross and London Bridge. It was opened in 1864 with the name Blackfriars but closed less than five years later when it was replaced by the station now called Waterloo East (originally named Waterloo).
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Blackfriars was a short-lived railway station on the South Eastern Railway (SER) line, in the parish of Southwark Christchurch, between Charing Cross and London Bridge. It was opened in 1864 with the name Blackfriars but closed less than five years later when it was replaced by the station now calle
Renamed Blackfriars in 1937. The station was rebuilt and reopened along with an underground station in 1977. The main service using the station is the Thameslink service which includes trains to and from Bedford, St Albans City and Luton in the north; and Brighton, Sutton and Sevenoaks in the south.
