Covent Garden ⇄ Moorgate Station

This journey is in zone 1 and you’ll have to use the Piccadilly and Hammersmith & City lines, changing trains at King’s Cross St. Pancras

1. From Covent Garden take the Piccadilly Line
2. Change at King’s Cross St. Pancras to the Hammersmith & City Line
3. Leave the train at Moorgate

Number of stops: 6 · Journey time: Approx 23 mins

Stations on the route: Covent Garden ➜ Holborn ➜ Russell Square ➜ King’s Cross St. Pancras [change train] King’s Cross St. Pancras ➜ Farringdon ➜ Barbican ➜ Moorgate

Live status and delays

Closures on the Piccadilly and H&C line

First and last train times

Piccadilly line timetable

Alternative routes include Covent Garden to Liverpool Street, Covent Garden to Bank and Covent Garden to Barbican

Stairs, lifts and escalators

Covent Garden is not wheelchair accessible

Moorgate is not wheelchair accessible

Covent Garden entrance – You must use a lift plus one flight of stairs between the entrance and the platforms (19 steps down). If you want to avoid the lift then you can use another fourteen flights of stairs (8 steps down +7 steps down +4 steps down +16 steps down +17 steps down +5 steps down +8x17 steps down)

Changing trains at King’s Cross St. Pancras – There’s a lift when changing between the platforms

Moorgate exit – You must use an escalator plus one flight of stairs from the Northern line platforms to the booking hall (20 steps up), or five flights of stairs from the westbound Circle/​H&C /​Metropolitan platforms (10 steps down +9 steps down +8 steps down +14 steps up +17 steps up), but the eastbound Circle eastbound/​H&C/​Metropolitan platforms are on the level. If you came from the Moorfields westside entrance then you will have an extra three flights of stairs to the platforms (7 steps down +16 steps down +7 steps down). After that you will have another three flights of stairs to the exits (7 steps up +16 steps up +7 steps up to Moorfields westside, or 8 steps up +9 steps up +8 steps up to Moorfields eastside and Moorgate westside, or 10 steps up +6 steps up +13 steps up to Moorgate eastside)

This journey is in zone 1 and you’ll have to use the Metropolitan, Central and Piccadilly lines, changing trains at Liverpool Street and

1. From Moorgate take the Metropolitan Line
2. Change at Liverpool Street to the Central Line
3. Change at Holborn to the Piccadilly Line
4. Leave the train at Covent Garden

Number of stops: 6 · Journey time: Approx 32 mins

Stations on the route: Moorgate ➜ Liverpool Street [change train] Liverpool Street ➜ Bank ➜ St. Paul’s ➜ Chancery Lane ➜ Holborn [change train] Holborn ➜ Covent Garden

Live status and delays

Closures on the Metropolitan, Central and Piccadilly line

First and last train times

Metropolitan line timetable

Alternative routes include Moorgate to Liverpool Street, Moorgate to Bank and Moorgate to Barbican

Stairs, lifts and escalators

Moorgate is not wheelchair accessible

Covent Garden is not wheelchair accessible

Moorgate entrance – The Moorfields westside entrance and the booking hall are on the level, but you must use three flights of stairs from all the other entrances (8 steps down +9 steps down +8 steps down from Moorfields eastside and Moorgate westside, or 13 steps down +6 steps down +10 steps down from Moorgate eastside). After that you must use an escalator plus one flight of stairs to the Northern line platforms (20 steps down), or five flights of stairs to the westbound Circle/​H&C /​Metropolitan platforms (14 steps down +17 steps down +8 steps up +9 steps up +10 steps up), but the eastbound Circle eastbound/​H&C/​Metropolitan platforms are on the level. If you came from the Moorfields westside entrance then you will have an extra three flights of stairs to the platforms (7 steps down +16 steps down +7 steps down)

Changing trains at Liverpool Street – You can use a lift or escalator when changing between the Central line and National Rail platforms, or the Central line and the H&C eastbound platform. You can use a lift when changing between the H&C eastbound and National Rail platforms. But you must use stairs for all other platform changes

Changing trains at Holborn – You must use stairs when changing between the Central/​Piccadilly line platforms

Covent Garden exit – You must use a lift plus one flight of stairs between the platforms and the exit (19 steps up). If you want to avoid the lift then you can use another fourteen flights of stairs (8x17 steps up +5 steps up +17 steps up +16 steps up +4 steps up +7 steps up +8 steps up)