
Aldgate East Underground Station - Whitechapel High Street, London, UK
N 51° 30.958 W 000° 04.215
30U E 703270 N 5711274
Aldgate East tube station serves the Hammersmith & City and District lines on the London Underground tube system.
Waymark Code: WMF7YY
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/07/2012
Views: 8
The station has several entrances and the co-ordinates given
are for the entrance that is part of the old Whitechapel library that now forms
a part of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. In addition to this entrance, two other
entrances are shown in the photographs.
The station serves two tube lines. The Hammersmith &
City line has a station at Whitechapel to the east of Aldgate East and one at
Liverpool Street to the west. The District line also uses Whitechapel station to
the east but the next stop to the west is at Tower Hill.
The PastScape website [visit link] tells
us:
"Aldgate East underground station, opened 31st October
1938, was the second station of that name to open. The first station, which was
opened on 6th October 1884, was sited some 155 metres to the west (see TQ 38 SW
2169). However, the need to enlarge the triangle containing the Minories, North
Curve and Aldgate East junctions lead to it being resited to the east. For the
construction of the new station the existing track level had to be lowered by 2
metres to allow sub-surface ticket halls to be
built."