Tower of London tube station

Tower of London
Location	City of London
Owner	Metropolitan Railway
Number of platforms	2
Key dates
1882 (1882)	Opened
1884 (1884)	Closed
Replaced by	Mark Lane
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Tower of London was a London Underground station in the City of London that closed in 1884, less than two years after opening. It was situated near the Tower of London, on a site now occupied by Tower Hill tube station.^[1]

It was opened on 25 September 1882 during the construction of the Metropolitan Railway (MR) to the north. Two years later, the MR and District Railway (now the District line) were connected to form the Inner Circle (now the Circle line) and a new station was built.^[2] This new station was opened on 6 October 1884 with the name Mark Lane (later renamed Tower Hill), just to the west of the Tower of London station, which closed on 12 October.^[1]

When the original Tower Hill station was itself closed in 1967, the current Tower Hill station was opened on the site of the closed Tower of London station.^[1] The remains of the Tower of London station were demolished during the construction of the new Tower Hill station.

References

Notes

1. 1 2 3 Rose 2007.
2. ↑ Simpson 2003, p. 24.

Bibliography

• Simpson, Bill (2003). A History of the Metropolitan Railway. 1. Witney: Lamplight Publications. ISBN 1-899246-07-X. 
• Rose, Douglas (December 2007) [1980]. The London Underground: A Diagrammatic History (8th ed.). Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN 978-1-85414-315-0. 

Coordinates: 51°30′36″N 0°04′36″W / 51.51000°N 0.07667°W / 51.51000; -0.07667

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Abandoned plans	Bakerloo Extension to Camberwell Central Denham Harefield Road Extension to Richmond Jubilee Aldwych Ludgate Circus Metropolitan Watford Central Northern Alexandra Palace Brockley Hill Bushey Heath Cranley Gardens Crouch End Elstree South Highgate Mill Hill (The Hale) Muswell Hill North End Stroud Green Piccadilly Aldwych branch extension to Waterloo Great Northern & City Lothbury Great Northern & Strand Wood Green Hornsey Harringay Other City & Brixton Railway Edgware Road Tube schemes
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