Tower Hill tube station

Tower Hill London Underground London River Services
Station entrance opposite the Tower of London
Interactive map of Tower Hill
General information
LocationTower Hill
Local authorityLondon Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed byLondon Underground
Owner
Number of platforms3
AccessibleYes[1]
Fare zone1
OSIFenchurch Street National Rail
Tower Gateway Docklands Light Railway[2]
Cycle parkingNo
Toilet facilitiesNo[3]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2021Increase 7.33 million[4]
2022Increase 15.40 million[5]
2023Decrease 14.97 million[6]
2024Increase 15.71 million[7]
2025Increase 16.10 million[8]
Railway companies
Original companyLondon Transport
Key dates
4 February 1967 (1967-02-04)Opened
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°30′36″N 0°04′34″W / 51.51°N 0.076°W / 51.51; -0.076

Tower Hill is a London Underground station in Tower Hill in the East End of London. It is served by the Circle and District lines, and is in London fare zone 1. The station is a short distance from Tower Gateway station for the Docklands Light Railway, Fenchurch Street station for National Rail mainline services, and Tower Millennium Pier for River Services. On the Circle line, the station is between Aldgate and Monument stations. On the District line, it is between Aldgate East and Monument stations.

History

Tower Hill station is located on the site of an earlier station called Tower of London. The station was opened on 25 September 1882, by the Metropolitan Railway as a temporary terminus of a short extension from Aldgate. It was closed on 13 October 1884.[9] It was replaced by Mark Lane station that had opened on 6 October 1884.[10] The present Tower Hill station opened in 1967, replacing Mark Lane.

In 2021, Transport for London made Tower Hill the tenth Underground station to replace some standard platform logos with 'poppy roundels' for the period leading up to Remembrance Day each year.[11] Opposite the station in Trinity Square Gardens is The Merchant Navy Memorial[12][13] commemorating merchant seafarers lost in the two World Wars and Falklands Campaign who have no grave but the sea. Its total of some 36,000 names is greater than that of any other Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial in the UK.[14]

Design

The entrance to Tower Hill station is a few metres from one of the largest remaining segments of the Roman London Wall which once surrounded the historic City of London. A small section of this wall is visible above the track at the far Eastern end of the Westbound platform, near the ceiling.

Location

London Buses day and nighttime routes, plus long-distance coach routes serve the station.[15]

Aldgate is 0.50 km (0.31 miles) to the north and Aldgate East is 0.80 km (0.50 miles) to the east of the station. Monument is 0.68 km (0.42 miles) to the west.[16][17]

Services

The station is managed by London Underground.[18] It is in London fare zone 1.[19] The typical off-peak service from the station is twelve District line trains per hour eastbound to Upminster with a further three trains to Barking. There are eighteen trains westbound to Earl's Court, of which six continue to Ealing Broadway, six continue to Richmond and six to Wimbledon.[16] At peak periods the number of trains per hour increases.[16] There are six Circle line trains an hour to Edgware Road (via Embankment) and six to Hammersmith (via Aldgate) at all times.[17] With 16.10 million entries and exits in 2025, it was ranked the 34th busiest London Underground station.[8]

Preceding station London Underground Following station
Aldgate
towards Hammersmith via King's Cross St Pancras
 Circle line
 Monument
towards Edgware Road via Victoria
Monument
towards Wimbledon, Richmond or Ealing Broadway
 District line Aldgate East
towards Upminster

Future

A Transport Supporting Paper released by the office of the Mayor of London in 2014 envisages the closure of Tower Gateway DLR station and the branch serving it, with a replacement interchange being provided via new platforms at Tower Hill tube station. The reasoning is given that currently, 90 per cent of DLR City passengers use Bank station, but only 75 per cent of services go there; this would increase service to Bank from 23 to 30 trains per hour, thereby unlocking more capacity on the Bank branch.[20]

References

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Citations

  1. ↑ "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London. April 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2025.
  2. ↑ "Out-of-station interchanges" (ODS). Transport for London. 1 May 2026. Archived from the original on 24 May 2026. Retrieved 24 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "TfL toilet map" (PDF). Transport for London. April 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2025. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Archived from the original on 6 April 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Archived from the original on 19 March 2025. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  6. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Archived from the original on 31 May 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  7. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2024. Transport for London. 20 January 2026 [8 October 2025]. Archived from the original on 27 March 2026. Retrieved 27 March 2026.
  8. 1 2 "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2025. Transport for London. 13 May 2026. Archived from the original on 19 July 2026. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
  9. ↑ Horne 2018, p. 154.
  10. ↑ Horne 2018, pp. 149, 158.
  11. ↑ Hoefling, Roger. "'Transport for London's tribute'". The Journal of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners. XXV (12): 410–411.
  12. ↑ "The Merchant Navy Memorial, First World War section". Historic England. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  13. ↑ "The Merchant Navy Memorial, Second World War section". Historic England. Archived from the original on 3 September 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  14. ↑ "What's the biggest war memorial in the UK?". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  15. ↑ "Buses from Tower of London" (PDF). TfL. June 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  16. 1 2 3 "District line working timetable 156" (PDF). Transport for London. 12 January 2026. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 January 2026. Retrieved 24 January 2026.
  17. 1 2 "Circle and Hammersmith & City line working timetable 39" (PDF). Transport for London. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 December 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  18. ↑ "Station list by line". Transport of London. Archived from the original on 8 May 2025. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  19. ↑ Standard Tube Map (PDF) (Map). Not to scale. Transport for London. February 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2025. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  20. ↑ Mayor of London. "LONDON INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN 2050: TRANSPORT SUPPORTING PAPER" (PDF). Greater London Authority.

Sources

  • Horne, Mike (2018). London's District Railway: A History of the Metropolitan District Railway Company. Nineteenth Century. Volume one. Capital Transport Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85414-425-6.
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