Aldgate East tube station facts for kids

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Aldgate East
Location	Aldgate
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	Transport for London
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	1
Key dates
6 October 1884	Opened
31 October 1938	resited
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR; Underground; National Rail; Tramlink;

Aldgate East is a London Underground station. It is between Aldgate and Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The station is in Travelcard Zone 1. It is on the Hammersmith & City Line between Liverpool Street and Whitechapel, and the District Line between Tower Hill and Whitechapel.

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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 Edition 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	Following station
Tower Hill towards Wimbledon, Richmond or Ealing Broadway	District line	Whitechapel towards Upminster
Liverpool Street towards Hammersmith	Hammersmith & City line	Whitechapel towards Barking
	Former services
Preceding station	London Underground	Following station
Tower Hill towards Wimbledon, Richmond or Ealing Broadway	District line (1884-1938)	St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) towards Upminster
Liverpool Street towards	Metropolitan line Hammersmith branch (1884-1938)	St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) towards Baker Street or Aldgate
Liverpool Street towards	Metropolitan line Hammersmith branch (1938-1990)	Whitechapel towards Baker Street or Aldgate

The resited Aldgate East station, showing its modernist, simple appearance
The reconstruction of Aldgate East station in progress. To lower the track level, the trackbed has been excavated with an interim support of timber trestles. With the tracks attached to chains from the ceiling, the trestle was then dismantled and the tracks lowered to the new lower track level.
A second view of reconstruction under the tracks, showing them ready to be lowered to their new level