Aldgate tube station

Aldgate station stands in the City of London near Aldgate High Street. It serves the Circle line between Liverpool Street and Tower Hill stations and is the eastern end of the Metropolitan line, with Liverpool Street the next stop west. The station opened in 1876 on the site of a former plague pit behind St Botolph’s church. In 1882 the Circle line reached Tower Hill, completing the route. The 2005 terrorist attack on a Circle line train approaching Aldgate killed seven passengers and closed the station briefly. The station building has a white faïence façade with 1920s shopfronts of green marble and pink granite. Inside, a half-hexagonal glass-and-metal canopy hangs from metal ties above the platforms. Original leaded-light windows and a dentil cornice remain, along with two ornamental lamp brackets and a frieze bearing the Metropolitan Railway monogram. The 1876 train shed survives behind the later 1926 frontage designed by Charles Walter Clark. London buses serve the station day and night. Circle line trains run every ten minutes clockwise to Edgware Road and anti-clockwise to Hammersham. Metropolitan line trains leave every few minutes northbound to Amersham, Chesham and Uxbridge, with twelve terminating at Aldgate during off-peak hours.