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Northern City Line

Not to be confused with the Northern line or the North London line.
"Moorgate Line" redirects here. For the line formerly running into Moorgate via Farringdon, see City Widened Lines.

Northern City Line
A Class 717 at Moorgate
Overview
StatusOperational
OwnerNetwork Rail
LocaleGreater London
Termini
Stations6
Service
TypeCommuter rail, Suburban rail
SystemNational Rail
Operator(s)Great Northern
Depot(s)Hornsey
Rolling stockClass 717 "Desiro City"
History
Opened1904
Technical
Number of tracksTwo
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Loading gaugeW6[1]
Electrification
Route map

The Northern City Line is a commuter railway line in England, which runs from Moorgate station to Finsbury Park in London with services running beyond. It is part of the Great Northern Route services, and operates as the south-eastern branch of the East Coast Main Line (ECML). It is underground from Moorgate to Drayton Park in Highbury, from which point it runs in a cutting until joining the ECML south of Finsbury Park. Its stations span northern inner districts of Greater London southwards to the City of London, the UK's main financial centre. Since December 2015, its service timetable has been extended to run into the late evenings and at weekends,[2] meeting a new franchise commitment for a minimum of six trains per hour until 23:59 on weekdays and four trains per hour at weekends.[3]

The official name for this line is the Moorgate Line,[4][5] but it is rarely referred to as this due to confusion with the Widened Lines route which goes from Kentish Town to Farringdon, which until March 2009, also served Moorgate surface-level station on the London Midland Region.[6][7] The Northern City Line's name is derived from the fact that it was originally a London Underground line, where it was described or managed as part of both the Metropolitan and Northern lines (sometimes as the "Highbury Branch"), although never connected to either. Built as an isolated route with a northern terminus at Finsbury Park, reconstruction connected it to the British Rail network in 1976 and began its modern service pattern. One of London's deep-level railways, the Northern City is unlike the others in being owned by Network Rail and served by commuter trains operated by Great Northern from Moorgate to Finsbury Park and onwards to Hertfordshire.

In 2016, it was proposed that all London rail services be transferred to Transport for London to create a London Suburban Metro, which would bring the line back under the jurisdiction of TfL.[8]

  1. ^ Network Rail: RUS, ECML Page 57 Archived 29 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 19 Feb 2011
  2. ^ "Great Northern timetable changes from 13 December 2015". Govia Thameslink Railway. Archived from the original on 11 March 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  3. ^ "East Coast Mainline Routes & Branches part 2". London Reconnections. 29 September 2013. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  4. ^ Network Rail (December 2006). London North Eastern Route Sectional Appendix. Vol. Module LN2. p. 41. LN105 Seq 001.
  5. ^ Quail Map 2 – England East [page 14] February 1998 (Retrieved 2016-03-10)
  6. ^ Network Rail (December 2009). Kent Sussex & Wessex Sectional Appendix. Vol. Module KSW2. p. 136. SO280 Seq 001.
  7. ^ Quail Map 4 – Midlands & North West [page 1R] June 2015 (Retrieved 2016-03-10)
  8. ^ A new approach to rail passenger services in London and the South East (PDF) (Report). Transport for London. January 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 January 2016.
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