Aldgate tube station facts for kids

For the train station in South Australia, see Aldgate railway station.

Aldgate

Station entrance
Location	Aldgate
Local authority	City of London
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	1
OSI	Fenchurch Street
London Underground annual entry and exit
2009	5.974 million
2010	6.03 million
2011	6.24 million
Key dates
18 November 1876 (18 November 1876)	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink

Aldgate tube station is a London Underground station 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 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

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.

Gallery

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  Trains at Aldgate tube station

Related pages

• List of London Underground stations

• 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
Liverpool Street towards Baker Street		Circle line		Tower Hill towards Victoria
Liverpool Street towards Amersham, Chesham, Uxbridge or Watford		Metropolitan line		Terminus