It was named after Mark Lane, the street on which it is located, slightly west of the current Tower Hill station that replaced it in 1967.

[2] The station was referred to in early plans as Trinity Square,[3] and later named Seething Lane, but it was ultimately given the more recognisable name Mark Lane (the street on which London's Corn Exchanges were located).

[1] The station was earmarked for closure due to overwhelming passenger numbers and little space available for expansion.

[citation needed] The disused station features in the 2017 novel Who Sent Clement by Keith A. Pearson[4] as the fictional hiding place for a gold bar from the 1971 Baker Street robbery.

The loot is made as a pay-off to a look-out from the robbery, a former ticket office manager of the then recently closed station.