page_title: Farringdon station
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Farringdon station / Services
caption_attribution_description: English: First Capital Connect "Electrostar" EMUs 377521 and 377503 at Farringdon with a northbound Thameslink service.
context_page_description: Farringdon is a London Underground and connected main line National Rail station in Clerkenwell, central London. The station is in the London Borough of Islington, just outside the boundary of the City of London. It was opened in 1863 as the terminus of the Metropolitan Railway, the first underground passenger railway and Farringdon is one of the oldest surviving underground railway stations in the world.
  Today the Underground station is served by the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines between King's Cross St Pancras and Barbican. The National Rail station is on the Thameslink route between St Pancras and City Thameslink, and is due to become an interchange station between Thameslink and the Crossrail programme which is due for completion in 2021.
caption: Farringdon is in the core of the Thameslink network, and is served by Thameslink. These Class 377 Electrostar units as well as Class 319 used to operate over the Bedford to Brighton route, however they have been replaced with Class 700 trains.
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