Tower Hill tube station

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Tower Hill
Entrance to Tower Hill station, with the Tower of London in the background.
Location
Place	Tower Hill
Local authority	Tower Hamlets
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	3
Transport for London
Zone	1
2005 annual usage	17.446 million †
2007 annual usage	19.44 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1882
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Tower Hill is a London Underground station at Tower Hill in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The station is in Travelcard Zone 1 and near the Tower of London. The entrance to the station is located a few metres from one of the largest remaining segments of the Roman wall which formerly surrounded what is now the City of London.

It is on the Circle Line between Monument and Aldgate, and the District Line between Monument and Aldgate East. It is close to Tower Gateway DLR station and Fenchurch Street railway station. The station is currently undergoing much delayed refurbishment with completion now due sometime in 2008.

It was built on the site of the former Tower of London tube station that was closed early in the history of the Underground. It replaced a station with the same name, but earlier called Mark Lane tube station, that was situated further west.

[edit] Off Peak Service

The typical off-peak service frequency is:

• District Line
  • 12 tph (trains per hour) to Upminster
  • 6 tph to Ealing Broadway
  • 6 tph to Richmond
  • 6 tph to Wimbledon
• Circle Line
  • 6 tph via Aldgate
  • 6 tph via Embankment

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Monument towards Victoria		Circle line		Aldgate towards Liverpool Street
Monument towards Wimbledon, Richmond or Ealing Broadway		District line		Aldgate East towards Upminster

Coordinates: 51°30′36″N, 0°04′36″W