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Tower Hill tube station

London Underground station

Field	Value
name	Tower Hill
manager	London Underground
owner	Transport for London
locale	Tower Hill
borough	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
platforms	3
fare_zone	1
image_name	tower hill entrance.jpg
caption	Entrance opposite the Tower of London
coordinates
map_type	Central London
label_position	left
original	London Transport Executive
years1
events1	Opened
cyclepark	No
toilets	No
access	yes
access_note
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interchange	Fenchurch Street
interchange1	Tower Gateway
interchange_note

Tower Hill is a London Underground station in Tower Hill in the East End of London. It is served by the Circle and District lines, and is in London fare zone 1. The station 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.

On the Circle line, the station is between Aldgate and Monument stations. On the District line, it is between Monument and Aldgate East stations.

The station was built on the site of the former Tower of London 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 to the west.

History

In 2021, Transport for London made Tower Hill the tenth Underground station to replace some standard platform logos with 'poppy roundels' for the period leading up to Remembrance Day each year. Opposite the station in Trinity Square Gardens is The Merchant Navy Memorial commemorating merchant seafarers lost in the two World Wars and Falklands Campaign who have no grave but the sea. Its total of some 36,000 names is greater than that of any other Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial in the UK.

Design

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. A small section of this wall is visible above the track at the far Eastern end of the Westbound platform, near the ceiling.

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.
  - 3 tph to Barking
  - 3 tph terminate here
- 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.

Future

A Transport Supporting Paper released by the office of the Mayor of London envisages the closure of Tower Gateway DLR station and the branch serving it, with a replacement interchange being provided via new platforms at Tower Hill tube station. The reasoning is given that currently, 90 per cent of DLR City passengers use Bank station, but only 75 per cent of services go there; this would increase service to Bank from 23tph to 30tph, thereby unlocking more capacity on the Bank branch.

Connections

London Buses day and nighttime routes, plus long-distance coach routes serve the station.

References

{{citation step free tube map
{{citation London station interchange January 2016
Hoefling, Roger. "'Transport for London's tribute'". The Journal of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners.
"The Merchant Navy Memorial, First World War section".
"The Merchant Navy Memorial, Second World War section".
"What's the biggest war memorial in the UK?".
Mayor of London. "LONDON INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN 2050: TRANSPORT SUPPORTING PAPER".
(June 2022). "Buses from Tower of London".

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