Lothbury tube station

Lothbury was an authorised but unbuilt underground railway station planned by the Great Northern & City Railway (GN&CR) in Lothbury in the City of London.

In November 1901, the GN&CR published a notice of its intention to present a private bill to parliament seeking permission for an extension of the company's tunnels then under construction between Finsbury Park and Moorgate. The bill proposed a short, 270 yd, southward continuation of the line to Lothbury which would become the southern terminus in place of Moorgate as originally planned. The bill received Royal Assent on 8 August 1902 as the Great Northern and City Railway Act, 1902.

The station was to have been entirely below ground with access to the surface by lift and pedestrian subways to the corners of the junction of Lothbury, Gresham Street, Moorgate and Princes Street. One peculiarity of the scheme was that the running tunnels between Moorgate and Lothbury stations were to have been shorter than the platform tunnels at the two stations; meaning that the front of a full length train would have arrived at Lothbury before the rear would have left Moorgate. The line could not be extended any further south due to the proximity of the City & South London Railway's tunnels under Princes Street Work began on Moorgate to Lothbury section but was abandoned almost immediately, with the tunnelling shield left in place at the end of the southbound tunnel just south of Moorgate station.

The Great Northern & City Railway Act, 1907, which received assent on 26 July 1907, granted additional time for the construction of the Lothbury extension but the money could not be raised and no further work was done.

In 1913, the Metropolitan Railway (MR) purchased the GN&CR and revived the Lothbury station proposal in a modified form as part of a number of plans to connect the GN&CR to the Waterloo & City Railway (W&CR) and the MR itself. When the Metropolitan Railway Act, 1913 was passed on 15 August 1913, neither of the proposals for connections were permitted, but Lothbury station was allowed, again as the terminus station. In 1914, The MR introduced revised proposals for its connections between the GN&CR and the MR and W&CR which removed the need for a station at Lothbury. Although these connections were never made, Lothbury station was not revived again.