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Is Aldgate East on the Circle line?

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Daniel Johnson

Published Feb 14, 2026

Is Aldgate East on the Circle line?

Aldgate is a London Underground station near Aldgate in the City of London. The station is on the Circle line between Tower Hill and Liverpool Street, and is the eastern terminus of the Metropolitan line.

What Tube line is Aldgate East on?

Hammersmith & City line
It is on the Hammersmith & City line between Liverpool Street and Whitechapel, and on the District line between Tower Hill and Whitechapel, in Travelcard Zone 1.

Where does the Circle line terminate?

Edgware Road
The Circle Line no longer just goes round and round. It starts at Hammersmith, then along the northern, eastern, southern, and western parts of the Circle to terminate at Edgware Road.

Where does the Circle line start?

List of stations

StationOpenedAdditional information
St James’s Park24 December 1868
Victoria24 December 1868Connects with Victoria line, National rail services from Victoria main line station and Victoria bus station.
Sloane Square24 December 1868
South Kensington24 December 1868Connects with Piccadilly line.

Is Aldgate East station closed today?

There are no reported disruptions at any .

What is under Aldgate station?

The legend continues that construction workers in the 1870s who were excavating the massive trench to accommodate the extension of the Metropolitan Railway and a new station at Aldgate made the grim discovery of over 1,000 skeletons buried haphazardly in a compact area.

What is the postcode for Aldgate?

Aldgate in City of London is in the London region of England. The postcode is within the Tower ward/electoral division, which is in the constituency of Cities of London and Westminster. This page combines information for the address Aldgate, City of London, London, EC3N 1RE, and the neighbourhood in which it resides.

How much does circle line cost?

At this year’s Budget, it was revealed that the 4km Circle Line 6 (CCL6), which will make the Circle Line a complete circle, will cost $1.2 billion per kilometre or five times the average per-km cost of the first five stages spanning 33km.

Is Aldgate East station step free?

Kings Cross St Pancras is step free. Aldgate East is not. Aldgate East has stairs. You could depart KXSP and catch bus 205 instead to avoid dragging your luggage up the stairs.

Was there a plague pit in Aldgate?

The “pest fields” of Gower’s Walk are close to what is now Aldgate East Tube station. Warehouses, since converted to flats, have been built on the site, but, according to Historic UK, the fields were once used to bury thousands of plague dead.

Was there a plague pit at Aldgate?

Aldgate Underground Station As described by Daniel Defoe in his book, A Journal of the Plague Year. ‘A terrible pit it was, and I could not resist my curiosity to go and see it.