Tower Hill
Now withdrawn LUL C stock train on a clockwise Circle Line service at Tower Hill station, which will head away from the camera when it departs, on 29th June 2012. This station opened in February 1967 on the site of the short-lived Tower of London station that had existed only from 1882 to 1884 when it was replaced by Mark Lane station, renamed Tower Hill in 1946, with the completion of the Inner Circle Line which, in its turn, the new Tower Hill station replaced. I vividly recall using the old Tower Hill station lots of times when a boy, usually on trips with my parents and brother from our home in Loughton, Essex to visit the Tower: Central Line to Mile End and then the rattly District Line which was very atmospheric in those days, as was Tower Hill station, almost as dark as a crypt. It is still possible to discern the site of the eastbound platform of the old station from a passing train, the westbound platform was demolished to make way for a new track layout.
Location: Tower Hill (former)
Original line: Aldgate - Mansion House: City Lines and Extensions (Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan and District Railway Joint)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Now withdrawn LU C stock trains, 2011-2014
Date: 29/06/2012
Image number: 73015
