Aldgate tube station

London Underground station

Aldgate tube station is a London Underground station at Aldgate in the City of London.

Aldgate London Underground
Station entrance
Aldgate is located in Central London
Aldgate
Aldgate
Location of Aldgate in Central London
LocationAldgate
Local authorityCity of London
Managed byLondon Underground
Station codeZAD
Number of platforms4
Fare zone1
OSIFenchurch Street[1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2009Decrease 5.974 million[2]
2017Increase 8.85 million[2]
2018Decrease 8.47 million[3]
2019Increase 9.96 million[4]
2020Decrease 2.78 million[5]
2021Increase 3.53 million[6]
Key dates
18 November 1876 (18 November 1876)Opened
Other information
External links
WGS8451°30′50″N 0°04′34″W / 51.514°N 0.076°W / 51.514; -0.076

The station is on the Circle Line between Tower Hill and Liverpool Street. It is also the eastern terminus of the Metropolitan line. It is in Travelcard Zone 1, and its ticket office is part-time only.

Platforms 1 and 4 at Aldgate are two of the only three platforms on the network to be served exclusively by the Circle Line (the other being Platform 2 at Gloucester Road). All other Circle Line platforms are shared by the District, Metropolitan and/or Hammersmith & City Lines.

In literature change

Aldgate tube station is important in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans. In the story, Cadogan West is found dead on the tracks near the station. We later know that the body was placed on top of the train before its arrival at the station.

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Related pages change

  • Butt, R.V.J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.



Preceding station     London Underground   Following station
towards Hammersmith
Circle line
towards Edgware Road
Metropolitan lineTerminus

References change

  1. "Out of Station Interchanges" (Microsoft Excel). Transport for London. May 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007–2017)". London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Archived from the original (XLSX) on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  3. "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 21 August 2019. Archived from the original on 22 May 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  4. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  5. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  6. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.