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Local authority: City of London
Managed by: London Underground
Number of platforms: 4
Fare zone: 1
Opened: 18 November 1876
Aldgate tube station
Aldgate tube station is a London Underground station located at Aldgate in the City of London.
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 the only two platforms on the network to be served exclusively by the Circle line. There are 2 other platforms used mainly by Circle line trains: platform 2 at Gloucester Road and platform 2 at Edgware Road, however these can be used by District line trains if required- i.e. during engineering work or disruption. All other Circle line platforms are shared by the District, Metropolitan and/or Hammersmith & City lines. To the south of this station, District line services are visible when heading between Tower Hill and Aldgate East. To the north, Hammersmith and City line services can be seen diverging away to join the District line at Aldgate East
History of Aldgate tube station:
The station was opened on 18 November 1876 with the southbound extension to Tower Hill opening on 25 September 1882, completing the Circle. Services from Aldgate originally ran far further west than they do now, reaching as far as Richmond, and trains also used to run from Aldgate to Hammersmith (the Hammersmith & City line now bypasses the station). It became the terminus of the Metropolitan line only in 1941. Before that, Metropolitan trains had continued on to the southern termini of the East London Line.
In 2005, one of the four bombs in the 7 July 2005 London bombings was detonated at 8:49 a.m. by Shehzad Tanweer on a Circle line train that had left Liverpool Street and was close to Aldgate. Seven commuters were killed in the explosion: Anne Moffatt, 46, Lee Baisden, 34, Benedetta Ciaccia, 30, Richard Ellery, 22, Richard Gray, 41, Carrie Louise Taylor, 24, and Fiona Stevenson, 29. Of the tube stations affected by the bombings, Aldgate was the first to be reopened, once police had handed back control of the site to London Underground following the extensive search for evidence. Once the damaged tunnel was repaired by Metronet engineers, the line was reopened, also allowing the Metropolitan line to be fully restored, since the closure had meant all trains had terminated two stations early at Moorgate.......Wikipedia >> & Wikipedia >> & Wikipedia >>
