Discover Liverpool Street EC2M – The City's Eastern Gateway
Liverpool Street EC2M occupies one of the most historically and commercially significant corners of the City of London, where the financial district meets the creative energy of the East End. The station itself opened in 1874 on the very site where Bethlem Royal Hospital, the original Bedlam, stood from the 13th to the 17th century, and its Gothic Victorian architecture has been carefully preserved through several major restorations, including a formal reopening by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991. Within the station stand two of London's most moving memorials — the Kindertransport statue commemorating the 10,000 Jewish children who arrived here from Germany and Austria in 1938 and 1939, and the Great Eastern Railway Roll of Honour from the First World War. Today Liverpool Street is the busiest station in the City of London, serving Greater Anglia rail services to East Anglia, Cambridge, Stansted Airport, and the port of Harwich, while the Elizabeth line connects it directly to Heathrow and Paddington. The surrounding Broadgate estate, Old Spitalfields Market, Bishopsgate, and the gleaming towers of the City make EC2M one of the most dynamic and well-connected postcodes in London. For anyone based here and heading to Heathrow, a pre-booked minicab or taxi from Liverpool Street offers a direct, fixed fare transfer that no train service across multiple stops can match for door-to-door convenience.