Aldgate tube station

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

Aldgate tube station is a London Underground station at Aldgate in the City of London.

Aldgate 10px

240px Station entrance
Location	Aldgate
Local authority	City of London
Managed by	London Underground
Station code	ZAD
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	1
OSI	Fenchurch Street
London Underground annual entry and exit
2009	11px 5.974 million
Key dates
18 November 1876 (18 November 1876)	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses

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

• Aldgate station trains.jpg

  Trains at Aldgate tube station

Related pages

• List of London Underground stations

Preceding station		15px London Underground		Following station
Liverpool Street towards Hammersmith		Circle line		Tower Hill towards Victoria
Liverpool Street towards Amersham, Chesham, Uxbridge or Watford		Metropolitan line		Terminus