| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | City of London |
| History | |
| Opened by | Metropolitan Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Key dates | Opened 1882 Closed 1884 |
| Replaced by | Mark Lane |
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Tower of London tube station 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 where Tower Hill tube station is located today.[1]
It was opened in 1882 during the construction of the Metropolitan Railway to the north. Two years later, the MR and Metropolitan 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 in 1884 with the name Mark Lane (later renamed Tower Hill), just to the west of the Tower of London station, which closed the same day.[1]
When the original Tower Hill station was itself closed in 1967, the current Tower Hill station was opened on the site of the Tower of London station.[1] The remains of the old station were demolished by the construction of the new station.
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- Simpson, Bill (2003). A History of the Metropolitan Railway 1. Witney: Lamplight Publications. ISBN 1-899246-07-X.
- Rose, Douglas [1980] (December 2007). The London Underground: A Diagrammatic History, 8th, Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN 978-1-85414-315-0.
Coordinates: 51°30′36″N 0°04′36″W / Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".
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