Tower Hill

Entrance opposite Tower of London
Tower Hill Location of Tower Hill in Central London
Location	Tower Hill
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	3
Fare zone	1
OSI	Fenchurch Street [1] Tower Gateway
London Underground annual entry and exit
2009	21.613 million[2]
2010	21.79 million[3]
2011	21.58 million[4]
1967 (1967)	Opened (on site of former Tower of London station)
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°30′36″N 0°04′34″W / 51.51°N 0.076°W / 51.51; -0.076

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 yards 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 a few yards to Tower Gateway DLR station and Fenchurch Street railway station. The station underwent some much delayed refurbishment which was completed sometime in 2008.

It was built on the site of the former Tower of London tube station that was closed in 1884. It opened in 1967 and replaced a station with the same name, but earlier called Mark Lane tube station, that was farther west.

This station has three platforms, with one platform for trains that terminate at Tower Hill.

Transport links [edit]

London bus route 15, 42, 78, RV1 and night route N15.

Off Peak Service [edit]

The typical off-peak service frequency is:

• District Line
  • Eastbound
    • 12 tph (trains per hour) to Upminster
    • 6 tph terminate at Tower Hill
  • Westbound
    • 6 tph to Ealing Broadway
    • 6 tph to Richmond
    • 6 tph to Wimbledon
• Circle Line
  • Eastbound
    • 6 tph to Hammersmith via Aldgate
  • Westbound
    • 6 tph to Edgware Road via Embankment

Gallery [edit]

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  Original entrance now used as exit only

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  Eastbound platform looking east

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  Upminster bound train leaving the eastbound platform

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  Platform roundel, with direction to Tower Gateway DLR station blanked off, due to the latter's refurbishment (photo August 2008)

See also [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tower Hill tube station

• List of London Underground stations

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

References [edit]

v t e Circle line Stations Aldgate Baker Street Barbican Bayswater Blackfriars Cannon Street Edgware Road Embankment Euston Square Farringdon Goldhawk Road Gloucester Road Great Portland Street Hammersmith High Street Kensington King's Cross St. Pancras Ladbroke Grove Latimer Road Liverpool Street Mansion House Monument ( Bank) Moorgate Notting Hill Gate Paddington Royal Oak Shepherd's Bush Market Sloane Square South Kensington St. James's Park Temple Tower Hill ( Tower Gateway) Victoria Westbourne Park Westminster Wood Lane Click to enlarge Rolling stock C Stock History Former railways Metropolitan Railway District Railway Metropolitan line (1933-88) History of the District line Former Rolling stock Metropolitan Railway steam locomotives District Railway steam locomotives Metropolitan Railway electric multiple units District Railway electric multiple units Circle Stock O and P Stock Associated circle lines Middle Circle Outer Circle Super Outer Circle Future proposals Future rolling stock S7 Stock See also District line Hammersmith & City line Metropolitan line London Underground Transport for London London Transport portal

v t e District line Stations Acton Town Aldgate East Barking Barons Court Bayswater Becontree Blackfriars Bow Road Bromley-by-Bow Cannon Street Chiswick Park Dagenham East Dagenham Heathway Ealing Broadway Ealing Common Earl's Court East Ham East Putney Edgware Road Elm Park Embankment Fulham Broadway Gloucester Road Gunnersbury Hammersmith High Street Kensington Hornchurch Kensington (Olympia) Kew Gardens Mansion House Mile End Monument ( Bank) Notting Hill Gate Paddington Parsons Green Plaistow Putney Bridge Ravenscourt Park Richmond Sloane Square South Kensington Southfields St. James's Park Stamford Brook Stepney Green Temple Tower Hill ( Tower Gateway) ( Fenchurch Street) Turnham Green Upminster Upminster Bridge Upney Upton Park Victoria West Brompton West Ham West Kensington Westminster Whitechapel Wimbledon Wimbledon Park click to enlarge Rolling stock C69 & C77 D78 History District Railway History of the District line Former stations Benfleet Castle Hill and Ealing Dene Chalkwell East Horndon Hanwell Hayes Hounslow Town Laindon Langley Leigh-on-Sea Mark Lane Pitsea Shoeburyness Slough South Acton Southall Southend Central Southend East St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) Thorpe Bay Westcliff West Drayton Windsor Former stock A Stock B Stock C Stock D Stock E Stock F Stock G Stock H Stock K Stock L Stock O/P/CO/CP Stock Q Stock R Stock Future Future Stock S7 Stock See also Other Sub-surface lines Circle line Hammersmith & City line Metropolitan line London Underground Transport for London London Transport portal