Cannon Street station

Cannon Street
London Cannon Street
Main entrance
Cannon Street Location of Cannon Street in Central London
Location	Cannon Street
Local authority	City of London
Grid reference	TQ326808
Managed by	Network Rail
Station code	CST
DfT category	A
Number of platforms	7
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	1
OSI	Bank , Mansion House
National Rail annual entry and exit
2011–12	20.223 million
– interchange	0.440 million
2012–13	20.020 million
– interchange	0.437 million
2013–14	20.689 million
– interchange	0.465 million
2014–15	22.130 million
2015–16	21.242 million
– interchange	0.767 million
Railway companies
Original company	South Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	South Eastern and Chatham Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1 September 1866	Opened
5 June 1926	Closed
28 June 1926	Reopened
5 August 1974	Closed
9 September 1974	Reopened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°30′37″N 0°05′27″W / 51.5104°N 0.0907°W / 51.5104; -0.0907Coordinates: 51°30′37″N 0°05′27″W / 51.5104°N 0.0907°W / 51.5104; -0.0907

Cannon Street
Entrance from Dowgate Hill
Location	Cannon Street
Local authority	City of London
Managed by	London Underground
Station code	CST
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes (Westbound only)
Fare zone	1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	4.09 million
2013	4.64 million
2014	5.30 million
2015	7.49 million
Key dates
1884	Opened (MICCR)
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses

Cannon Street, also known as London Cannon Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station located on Cannon Street in the City of London. It was built on the site of the medieval Steelyard, the trading base in England of the Hanseatic League, and it opened in 1866.

It is situated within fare zone 1 and is one of 19 stations in the United Kingdom managed by Network Rail. Main line train services out of Cannon Street are operated by Southeastern, serving destinations in southeast London and Kent; the Underground station is on the Circle and District lines between Monument and Mansion House.

Cannon Street is a terminal station approached across the River Thames by the Cannon Street Railway Bridge. Its approach by rail is by a triangular connection to both London Bridge and Charing Cross. There were originally eight platforms; a refurbishment in the late 1990s removed the original platform 1. It has entrances on Cannon Street itself and Dowgate Hill. It is also located near the London Stone (north from station), which was once used as the place from which all distances in Roman Britain were measured.

Opened by the South Eastern Railway on 1 September 1866, the original station building was designed by Sir John Hawkshaw and J. W. Barry and was characterised by its two Wren-style towers, 23 ft (7.0 m) square and 135 ft (41 m) high, which faced on to the River Thames. The towers supported a 700 ft (210 m) long iron train shed crowned by a high single arch, almost semicircular, of glass and iron. To this was joined in 1867 an Italianate style hotel and forecourt designed by E. M. Barry which provided much of the station's passenger facilities as well as an impressive architectural frontispiece to the street. This arrangement was very similar to that put in place at Charing Cross. The station is carried over Upper Thames Street on a 700 ft (210 m) long brick viaduct containing 27 million bricks. Below this viaduct there are remains of a number of Roman buildings, which form a scheduled ancient monument. Barry's five-storey City Terminus Hotel underwent two changes of name: first to Cannon Street Hotel in 1879, and later, as an office block, to Southern House.