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Location Profile: LIVERPOOL STREET |
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Liverpool Street gives its name to the eleventh
episode in the series and is quite a complex location with both the main
line railway terminus and the Underground Station. The main line station benefited from a major revamp a few years ago which turned it into a bright airy station (unlike the dreadful Euston) but retained original features such as the twin towers of the main entrance seen here. |
| The concourse itself is distinctive not only for its bright open plan layout but also the train indicator which is blue for no readily apparent reason! |  |
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This location featured in the film 'Mission: Impossible' where Tom Cruise's character used the clock at the top of the indicator to precisely time the length of his telephone call. |
| The east end of the station exits out into Bishopsgate, the main road leading from the City of London and Bank to the north. |  |
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Bishopsgate itself is one of the busiest thoroughfares in the area carrying a lot of inbound and outbound City traffic. |
| The street from which the station gets its name is by contrast more of a quiet side street where the taxis pull into the main rank in front of the old Great Eastern Railway hotel. |
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On the occasion of my visit, for some reason the Fire Brigade were in attendance although there appeared to be no major emergency in progress despite the showing of blue flashing lights by the appliance. |
| The Underground Station has two main parts. The original section is the sub surface station serving the Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and Circle Lines. Here a 'C' stock train bound for Hammersmith is seen arriving. |
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At the west end of the sub surface platforms can be found a bygone relic from the original Metropolitan Railway in the form of the now long since disused signal cabin. |
| The tube section of the station is served by the Central Line which has to take quite a winding route up from Bank in order to get around the vaults of the Bank of England and the Post Office Railway. |
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As yet I don't have a picture of the older Broad Street entrance to the station which featured prominently in the film 'Mission: Impossible' however I hope to add it next time I am up that way with my camera - and it isn't raining!!!!