Tower Hill tube station

Tower Hill is an underground station of the London Underground in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 1 below the most important remains of the former London Wall. Here the trains on the Circle Line and the District Line. In 2011, 21.58 million passengers used the station. In the immediate vicinity are the Tower of London, Fenchurch Street train station and the Tower Gateway Docklands Light Railway.

On September 25, the Metropolitan Railway opened in 1882, the predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line, the station Tower of London. The Metropolitan District Railway (now the District Line ) closed on October 6, 1884 with the commissioning of the route Mansion House - Whitechapel the last gap of the ring route, which runs around the entire city center of London. On the same day the station Tower Hill by the slightly further west, Mark Lane Station was replaced.

This station, which was renamed on 1 September 1946 in Tower Hill, proved after several decades as too small to cope with the increasing traffic can. In particular, the lack of a third track for turning trains had a negative impact on the operation. For this reason, a completely new station, you completely removed the remains of the station closed in 1884 Tower of London was the original location. The new station Tower Hill was put into operation on 5 February 1967. In the main hall of the station Mark Lane now houses a restaurant. The office building also called Mark Lane Station Buildings. The entrance to the former station is still labeled with the old name.