Aldgate Tube Station - Aldgate High Street, London, UK
N 51° 30.844 W 000° 04.528
30U E 702917 N 5711048
Aldgate underground station serves two of London's tube lines: the Circle line with Liverpool Street to the north and Tower Hill to the south and the Metropolitan line that terminates at this station.
Waymark Code: WMFAJ4
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/20/2012
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Wikipedia [visit link] gives a
history of the station:
"The station was opened on 18 November 1876 with the
southbound extension to Tower Hill opening on 25 September 1882, completing the
Circle. Services from Aldgate originally ran far further west than they do now,
reaching as far as Richmond, and trains also used to run from Aldgate to
Hammersmith (the Hammersmith & City line now bypasses the station). It
became the terminus of the Metropolitan line only in 1941. Before that,
Metropolitan trains had continued on to the southern termini of the East London
Line.
In 2005, one of the four bombs in the 7 July 2005 London
bombings was detonated at 8:49 a.m. by Shehzad Tanweer on a Circle line train
that had left Liverpool Street and was close to Aldgate. Seven commuters were
killed in the explosion: Anne Moffatt, 46, Lee Baisden, 34, Benedetta Ciaccia,
30, Richard Ellery, 22, Richard Gray, 41, Carrie Louise Taylor, 24, and Fiona
Stevenson, 29. Of the tube stations affected by the bombings, Aldgate was the
first to be reopened, once police had handed back control of the site to London
Underground following the extensive search for evidence. Once the damaged tunnel
was repaired by Metronet engineers, the line was reopened, also allowing the
Metropolitan line to be fully restored, since the closure had meant all trains
had terminated two stations early at Moorgate."