Tower Hill tube station

This article is about the current Tower Hill tube station. For the closed station latterly of the same name but originally called Mark Lane, see Mark Lane tube station.

Tower Hill
Entrance opposite the Tower of London
Tower Hill Location of Tower Hill in Central London
Location	Tower Hill
Local authority	Tower Hamlets
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	3
Fare zone	1
OSI	Fenchurch Street Tower Gateway
Cycle parking	No
Toilet facilities	No
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	21.58 million
2012	22.54 million
2013	23.41 million
2014	26.32 million
Key dates
1967 (1967)	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
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Tower Hill is a London Underground station located on Tower Hill in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in central London. It is on the Circle line between Monument and Aldgate stations, and on the District line between Monument and Aldgate East. Tower Hill is within Travelcard zone 1 and 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.

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. The station was built on the site of the former Tower of London tube station that closed in 1884. The present Tower Hill station opened in 1967 and replaced a nearby station with the same name but which was originally called Mark Lane, that was slightly farther west.

Services

Train frequencies vary throughout the day, but the typical off-peak service pattern is:

• District line:
  • Eastbound:
    • 12 tph (trains per hour) to Upminster.
  • Westbound:
    • 6 tph to Ealing Broadway;
    • 6 tph to Richmond;
    • 6 tph to Wimbledon.
• Circle line:
  • Anti-clockwise:
    • 6 tph to Hammersmith via Aldgate.
  • Clockwise:
    • 6 tph to Edgware Road via Embankment.

Connections

London Buses route 15 and heritage route 15H and night route N15 serve the station.

See also

• List of London Underground stations

References

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