Aldgate tube station
For the train station in South Australia, see Aldgate railway station.| Location | Aldgate |
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| Local authority | City of London |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Station code | ZAD |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
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| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2005 | 4.438 million[1] |
| 2007 | 5.572 million[1] |
| Lists of stations | DLR · Underground · National Rail · Tramlink |
| External links | Departures • Layout |
| Facilities • Buses | |
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.
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In Literature [change]
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.
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Trains at Aldgate tube station
Related pages [change]
- 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.
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towards Baker Street
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Circle line |
towards Victoria
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| Metropolitan line | Terminus |
Coordinates: 51°30′58″N 0°04′55″W / 51.516°N 0.082°W
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References [change]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Customer metrics: entries and exits". London Underground performance update. Transport for London. 2003-2010. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/modesoftransport/tube/performance/default.asp?onload=entryexit. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
