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 Aldgate East and Monument stations.

History Tower Hill station is located on the site of an earlier station called Tower of London. The station was opened on 25 September 1882, by the Metropolitan Railway as a temporary terminus of a short extension from Aldgate. It was closed on 13 October 1884. It was replaced by Mark Lane station that had opened on 6 October 1884. The present Tower Hill station opened in 1967, replacing Mark Lane.

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.

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

Aldgate is to the north and Aldgate East is to the east of the station. Monument is to the west.

Services The station is managed by London Underground. It is in London fare zone 1. The typical off-peak service from the station is twelve District line trains per hour eastbound to Upminster with a further three trains to Barking. There are eighteen trains westbound to Earl's Court, of which six continue to Ealing Broadway, six continue to Richmond and six to Wimbledon. At peak periods the number of trains per hour increases. There are six Circle line trains an hour to Edgware Road (via Embankment) and six to Hammersmith (via Aldgate) at all times. With 16.10 million entries and exits in 2025, it was ranked the 34th busiest London Underground station.

Future A Transport Supporting Paper released by the office of the Mayor of London in 2014 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 23 to 30 trains per hour, thereby unlocking more capacity on the Bank branch.

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