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Aldgate is a London Underground station near Aldgate in the City of London. The station is on the Circle line between Tower Hill and Liverpool Street, and is the eastern terminus of the Metropolitan line. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.[7]

Aldgate
Station entrance
Aldgate Location of Aldgate in Central London
Location	Portsoken
Local authority	City of London
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	1
OSI	Aldgate East Fenchurch Street Tower Gateway [1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
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 (18 November 1876)	Opened
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
WGS84	51.514°N 0.076°W / 51.514; -0.076
London transport portal

Aldgate was opened in 1876 with its entrance on Aldgate High Street. A station named Aldgate East opened nearby eight years later[8] and is served today by the District and Hammersmith & City lines.[7]

History

The route first proposed ran south from Moorgate to Cannon Street, but this was soon amended to the present alignment to allow connection with three additional termini: Liverpool Street, Broad Street, and Fenchurch Street.[9] However, this change also forced an awkward doubling-back at Aldgate, reducing the desirability of the line for local traffic and greatly increasing the cost of construction due to high prices in the City of London.[9] Construction was also complicated^{[failed verification]} because the station was on the site of a plague pit behind St Botolph's Aldgate which contains an estimated 1,000 bodies.[10][11][12]

Aldgate station was opened on 18 November 1876, with a southbound extension to Tower Hill opening on 25 September 1882, completing the Circle (line).[9] Services from Aldgate originally ran further west than they do now, reaching as far as Richmond.

The train shed of 1876 survives, hidden from the street by the later station frontage building erected in 1926. This was designed by Charles Walter Clark the Metropolitan Railway's chief architect between 1911 and 1933.[n 1]

The station building has a six-bay façade clad in white faïence with original features including 1920s shopfronts with green marble and pink granite stallrisers, a half-hexagonal canopy of glass and metal suspended by elegant metal ties, leaded light first floor windows, dentil cornice, two ornamental lamp brackets and a frieze bearing moulded lettering and the Metropolitan Railway monogram.

Aldgate became the terminus of the Metropolitan line in 1941. Before that, Metropolitan trains had continued on to the southern termini of the East London Line.

In 2005, one of four suicide bombers involved in the 7 July terrorist attacks detonated a device on a C-stock Circle line train from Liverpool Street and was approaching Aldgate.[13] Seven passengers were killed in the bombing.[13] Of the 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 an extensive search for evidence. Once the damaged tunnel was repaired by Metronet engineers, the lines were reopened. This also allowed the Metropolitan line to be fully restored, since the closure had meant all trains had to be terminated two stations early, at Moorgate.[14]

Services

On the Circle line the typical off-peak service measured in trains per hour (tph) is:

• 6 tph clockwise to Edgware Road via Embankment;[9][15]
• 6 tph anti-clockwise to Hammersmith via King's Cross St. Pancras.[9][16]

On the Metropolitan line the typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 2 tph northbound to Amersham;[14][17]
• 2 tph northbound to Chesham;[14][17]
• 8 tph northbound to Uxbridge.[14][17]
• 12 tph terminating at Aldgate

During peak hours there are also additional fast and semi-fast Metropolitan line services, with some following the route to and from Watford.[14]

Connections

London Buses routes 15, 25, 42, 78, 100, 115, 135, 205, 242, 254, 343 and night routes N15, N25, N205, N253, N550 and N551 serve the station.[18][19]

Cultural references

This section does not cite any sources. (March 2015)

Aldgate station plays a role in the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (published in the anthology His Last Bow).

In the story, the body of a junior clerk named Cadogan West is found on the tracks outside Aldgate, with a number of stolen plans for the Bruce-Partington submarine in his pocket. It seems clear enough that "the man, dead or alive, either fell or was precipitated from a train." But why, wonders Holmes, did the dead man not have a ticket? It turns out that the body was placed on top of a train carriage before it reached Aldgate, via a window in a house on a cutting overlooking the Metropolitan line. Holmes realises that the body fell off the carriage roof only when the train was jolted by the dense concentration of points at Aldgate.

Aldgate is also mentioned in John Creasey's 1955 detective novel Gideon's Day. It has also appeared in two films: Four in the Morning (1965) starring Ann Lynn and Norman Rodway and V for Vendetta (2006), starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman.

Notes and References

Notes

References

External links

• London Transport Museum Photographs Collection
  • View of Aldgate station, 1902
  • Aldgate East station before reconstruction, 1910

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Liverpool Street towards Hammersmith via King's Cross St Pancras		Circle line		Tower Hill towards Edgware Road via Victoria
Liverpool Street towards Uxbridge, Amersham, Chesham or Watford		Metropolitan line		Terminus
Former services
Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Liverpool Street towards Hammersmith via King's Cross St Pancras		Circle line (1884–1967)		Mark Lane towards Edgware Road via Victoria

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[de] Aldgate (London Underground)

Aldgate ist eine Station der London Underground. Sie befindet sich in der City of London in der Travelcard-Tarifzone 1 und ist ein Teil der Circle Line, die das Londoner Stadtzentrum kreisförmig umschließt. Aldgate Station ist zugleich Endstation der Metropolitan Line, der ältesten U-Bahn-Linie Londons. Im Jahr 2014 nutzten 7,22 Millionen Fahrgäste die Station.[1] Südlich davon zweigt die District Line und nördlich davon die Hammersmith & City Line zum nahe gelegenen Bahnhof Aldgate East ab.

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- [en] Aldgate tube station

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[ru] Олдгейт (станция метро)

Олдгейт (англ. Aldgate) — станция лондонского метро в районе города, называемом Лондонский Сити. На станции останавливаются поезда двух линий: Метрополитен и Кольцевой. На Кольцевой линии находится между станциями «Тауэр Хилл» и «Ливерпуль-стрит», а на линии «Метрополитен» является конечной. На этой станции две платформы обслуживаются только поездами Кольцевой линии (всего таких платформ три на всей линии). Станция не рассчитана на инвалидов-колясочников. Относится к первой тарифной зоне.

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