Aldgate tube station
Aldgate tube station is a London Underground station at Aldgate in the City of London.
Aldgate  | |
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 Station entrance | |
  Aldgate Location of Aldgate in Central London | |
| Location | Aldgate |
| Local authority | City of London |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Station code | ZAD |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| OSI | Fenchurch Street[1] |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2009 |  5.974 million[2] |
| 2017 |  8.85 million[2] |
| 2018 | 8.47 million[3] |
| 2019 | 9.96 million[4] |
| 2020 | 2.78 million[5] |
| 2021 | 3.53 million[6] |
| Key dates | |
| 18 November 1876 | Opened |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| WGS84 | 51°30′50″N 0°04′34″W / 51.514°N 0.076°W |
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
changeAldgate 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.
Gallery
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Trains at Aldgate tube station
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.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
| Preceding station |  London Underground
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Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
towards Hammersmith | Circle line | towards Edgware Road |
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| Metropolitan line | Terminus |
References
change- ↑ "Out of Station Interchanges" (Microsoft Excel). Transport for London. May 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
