Aldgate () is a London Underground station near Aldgate in the City of London. It is on the Circle line between Liverpool Street and Tower Hill stations. It is also the eastern terminus of the Metropolitan line and the next station towards west is Liverpool Street. The station is in London fare zone 1.

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

Aldgate station was opened on 18 November 1876, with a southbound extension to Tower Hill opening on 25 September 1882, completing the Circle (line). Seven passengers were killed in the bombing.

Design

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. 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.

Connections

London Buses day and night routes serve the station.

Services

Aldgate station is on the Circle and Metropolitan lines in London fare zone 1.

Circle line

On the Circle line, Aldgate station is between Liverpool Street to the west and Tower Hill to the east. The typical off-peak service measured in trains per hour (tph) is:

  • 6 tph clockwise to Edgware Road via ;
  • 6 tph anti-clockwise to Hammersmith via .

Metropolitan line

Aldgate station is the eastern terminus of the Metropolitan line and the next station is Liverpool Street to the west. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

  • 2 tph northbound to ;
  • 2 tph northbound to ;