Bakerloo Line
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The Bakerloo Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured brown on the Tube map. It is a deep-level line running from the south-east to the north-west of London. Originally called the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, the contraction "Bakerloo" rapidly caught on, and the official name was changed.
The Bakerloo was extended beyond its original terminus of Baker Street via interchanges with the GWR at Paddington and the Great Central at Marylebone to Queens Park, where it joined the "DC Lines" of the London and North Western Railway and ran alongside the LNWR's main line as far as Watford Junction. Bakerloo services to Watford were cut back in the 1960s and eventually withdrawn in 1982 with Stonebridge Park serving as the new terminus. The current northern terminus is Harrow & Wealdstone, and trains still share the tracks with local services from Euston to Watford.
In 1939 a new stretch of tube was opened between Baker Street and Finchley Road which allowed the Bakerloo to take over the Metropolitan Line's branch to Stanmore. The Stanmore branch remained part of the Bakerloo until 1979, when it was separated to become part of the Jubilee Line.
An extension on the southern end of the line to Camberwell was proposed in 1949 but withdrawn by 1951.
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Map
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Stations
in order from north to south
Note: Between Watford Junction and Queen's Park, the Bakerloo line used surface lines and stations belonging to the London and North Western Railway (subsequently British Rail and Silverlink). These stations were and mostly still are jointly operated by the Underground and the mainline rail company.
Surface section
- Watford Junction – First Served: April 16, 1917. Last Served: September 24, 1982.
- Watford High Street – First Served: April 16, 1917. Last Served: September 24 – 1982.
- Bushey & Oxhey – First Served: April 16, 1917. Renamed Bushey: May 6, 1974. Last Served: September 24, 1982.
- Carpenders Park – First Served: April 5, 1919. Closed: November 16, 1952 and re-sited. Re-opened on new site November 17, 1952. Last Served: September 24, 1982.
- Pinner & Hatch End – First Served: April 16, 1917. Renamed Hatch End (for Pinner): February 1, 1920. Renamed Hatch End: 1956. Last Served: September 24, 1982.
- Headstone Lane – First Served: April 16, 1917. Last Served: September 24, 1982.
- Current northern terminus: Harrow & Wealdstone – First Served: April 16, 1917. Last Served: September 24, 1982. Re-Served: June 4, 1984.
- Kenton – First Served: April 16, 1917. Last Served: September 24, 1982. Re-Served: June 4, 1984.
- South Kenton – First Served: September 3, 1933. Last Served: September 24, 1982. Re-Served: June 4, 1984.
- North Wembley – First Served: April 16, 1917. Last Served: September 24, 1982. Re-Served: June 4, 1984.
- Wembley Central for Sudbury – First Served: April 16, 1917. Renamed:(Wembley central): September 5, 1948. Last Served: September 24, 1982. Re-Served: June 4, 1984.
- Stonebridge park – First Served: August 1, 1917.
- Harlesden – First Served: April 16, 1917.
- Willesden Junction – First Served: May 5, 1915
- Kensal Green – First Served: October 1, 1916
- Queen's Park – First Served: February 11, 1915
Tunneled section
- Kilburn Park – Opened: January 31, 1915
- Maida Vale – Opened: June 6, 1915
- Warwick Avenue – Opened: October 31, 1915
- Paddington – Opened: December 1, 1913
- Edgware Road – Opened: June 15, 1907
- Great Central – Opened: March 27, 1907. Renamed as Marylebone, April 15, 1917
- Baker Street – Opened: March 10, 1906
- Regent's Park – Opened: March 10, 1906
- Oxford Circus – Opened: March 10, 1906
- Piccadilly Circus – Opened: March 10, 1906
- Charing Cross – Opened: March 10, 1906
- Embankment – Opened: March 10, 1906
- Waterloo – Opened: March 10, 1906
- Westminster Bridge Road – Opened: March 10, 1906. Renamed as Lambeth North: April 15, 1917
- Southern terminus: Elephant & Castle – Opened: August 5, 1906
Stanmore Branch
This branch was transferred to the Jubilee Line after April 30, 1979. It joined the main line between Baker Street and Marylebone.
- Stanmore
- Canons Park
- Queensbury
- Kingsbury
- Wembley Park
- Neasden
- Dollis Hill
- Willesden Green
- Kilburn
- West Hampstead
- Finchley Road
- Swiss Cottage
- St. John's Wood
See also
Leslie Green - architect of the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway's early stations
External link
- Bakerloo Line (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/company/linefacts/?line=bakerloo) - London Underground page
- http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/bakerloo.htmlde:Bakerloo Line
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