Baker Street Tube Station

Baker Street tube station is a station on the London Underground at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road. The station lies in Travelcard Zone 1 and is served by five different lines. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, opened in 1863.

On the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines it is between Great Portland Street and Edgware Road. On the Metropolitan line it is between Great Portland Street and Finchley Road. On the Bakerloo line it is between Regent's Park and Marylebone, and on the Jubilee line it is between Bond Street and St. John's Wood.

The station has entrances on Baker Street, Chiltern Street (ticket holders only) and Marylebone Road. Nearby attractions include Regent's Park, Lord's Cricket Ground, the Sherlock Holmes Museum and Madame Tussauds.

Baker Street station was opened by the MR on 10 January 1863 (these platforms are now served by the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines). On 13 April 1868, the MR opened the first section of Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway as a branch from its existing route. This line, serving the open-air platforms, was steadily extended to Willesden Green and northwards, finally reaching Aylesbury Town and Verney Junction (some 50 miles/80 km from Baker Street) in 1892. The MR station mainly competed for traffic with Euston, where the LNWR provided local services to Middlesex and Watford, and later with Marylebone, where the GCR provided expresses to Aylesbury and beyond on the same line.

Over the next few decades this section of the station was extensively rebuilt to provide four platforms. The current Metropolitan line layout largely dates from 1925, and the bulk of the surface buildings, designed by architect Charles Walter Clark, also date from this period.

 

The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR, now the Bakerloo line) opened on 10 March 1906; Baker Street was the temporary northern terminus of the line until it was extended to Marylebone station on 27 March 1907.The original station building stood on Baker Street and served the tube platforms with lifts, but these were supplemented with escalators in 1914, linking the Metropolitan line and the Bakerloo line platforms by a new concourse excavated under the Metropolitan line.[6]

On 20 November 1939, following the construction of an additional southbound platform and connecting tube tunnels between Baker Street and Finchley Road stations, the Bakerloo line took over the Metropolitan line's stopping services between Finchley Road and Wembley Park and its Stanmore branch. The current Bakerloo ticket hall and escalators to the lower concourse were provided in conjunction with the new service.[7] The Jubilee line added an extra northbound platform and replaced the Bakerloo line service to Stanmore from its opening on 1 May 1979.

On 23 August 1973, a bomb was found in a carrier bag in the ticket hall.[8] The bomb was defused by the bomb squad. A week later, on 30 August, a member of staff found another bomb left on the overbridge. Again, it was defused without any injury.

Of the MR's original stations, the sub-surface Circle and Hammersmith and City line platforms are the best preserved. Plaques along the platform show old plans and photographs of the station.

The station layout is rather complex. The sub-surface station is connected to the open-air Metropolitan line station. This is a terminus for some Metropolitan line trains, but there is also a connecting curve that joins to the Circle line just beyond the platforms that allows Metropolitan line trains to run to Aldgate in the City of London.

Below this is a deep-level tube station for the Bakerloo and Jubilee lines. These are arranged in a cross-platform interchange, and there are connections between the two lines just to the north of the station. With ten platforms overall, Baker Street has the most London Underground platforms of any station on the network.

Outside the Marylebone Road exits, a large statue of Sherlock Holmes commemorates the fictional detective's association with 221B Baker Street. A restoration in the 1980s on the oldest portion of the Baker Street station brought it back to something similar to its 1863 appearance.

The station is operated by the Metropolitan Line management team. Offices of the line are within the vicinity of the station.

First steam train for over 100 years runs on London Underground

Metropolitan Steam Locomotive Number 1, which dates from 1892, pulled a restored original Victorian first-class carriage from Earl’s Court to Moorgate

The first steam locomotive to run on the London Underground in more than 100 years pulls into Baker Street station.

It was part of a test run for a retro service marking the Tube’s 150th anniversary next year.

Metropolitan Steam Locomotive Number 1, which dates from 1892, pulled a restored original Victorian first-class carriage from Earl’s Court in West London to Moorgate in the City early on Sunday.

Peter Hendy, Commissioner of Transport for London, who helped bring back the steam Tube, joked: “This is the advantage of having your own railway – you don’t have to ask permission.”

The carriage – which had been used as a chicken coop in a farmyard before being renovated – has a luxurious teak frame, crimson upholstered seats, leather panels and gas light fittings.

It was restored thanks to tireless fund-raising campaigns and a Lottery grant.

Locomotive No 1 went overground in 1904 – a year before the last steam Tube ran – as the Underground moved over to electricity.

It was finally withdrawn from service in 1963.

Baker Street in 1863

Blackfriars Tube reopens | Transport for London

Blackfriars Tube reopens | Transport for London: "An improved Blackfriars Underground station has now reopened as part of the Tube upgrade plan.


Circle and District line trains are now stopping at the station and there are better connections to rail services.


Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who toured the station yesterday, said: 'With its magnificent ticket hall, brand new lifts and escalators, and more than double the previous capacity, the rebirth of this central London station will improve the journeys of thousands of passengers every single day.


'An incredible amount of hard work and expertise has been invested in these improvements, and Blackfriars is now set to become a truly world-class station.'"

• The Tube is back at Blackfriars after extensive improvements
• Blackfriars' new station entrance has opened on the South Bank
• A new entrance has opened on the north bank

The Tube is back!

The Tube is back at Blackfriars, restoring the link with the District and Circle lines that closed in March 2009. After extensive improvements, there is a larger, street-level ticket hall, with new and improved access through lifts and escalators to widened platforms. You gain access through the fantastic new steel and glass north bank common entrance.

Revealed: The new Tube platforms at Blackfriars

South Bank entrance

If you work south of the river or want to visit The Globe or Tate Modern, the new South Bank station entrance (above) will really speed your journey. Although work continues behind many hoardings, it has a staffed ticket office, ticket machines and a lift to platform 1. It opened on 5 December 2011.

A word of advice, though: lifts to platform 2, 3 and 4 aren't planned to open from this new entrance until the entire station is finished, in spring/summer 2012.

Ticket holders will be able to use the station bridge to cross the river but if you are using a Pay As You Go Oyster card you must catch a train from Blackfriars with either National Rail or London Underground to avoid a penalty fare.

Thames Path reopened

The Thames Path along the South Bank underneath Blackfriars rail bridge also re-opened on 5 December. Due to ongoing construction work, occasional short-term or overnight closures of the path will be required over the coming months. We'll make sure these closures are well signposted and advertised in advance.

New north bank station entrance

Blackfriars' new glazed north station entrance (above) also came into operation on 12 December 2011. It is open between 6am and 8pm Mondays-Fridays.

Inside the new north bank entrance is the new Tube station ticket office and a doorway through to stairs to National Rail platforms 1 and 2.

Travelling to and from Blackfriars station on the north bank

Use the new north bank entrance between 6am and 8pm if travelling west, north along New Bridge Street or east along Queen Victoria Street.

Travelling east from Blackfriars station on the north bank

You can also use the Queen Victoria Street exit via the Mermaid link on the north side of the station if heading east. This is also your route out of the station when the new north bank entrance is closed.

Travelling south from Blackfriars station

Use the new south entrance.

Please note: the National Rail station will be finished in the spring/summer 2012. This means that the escalators and lifts to the National Rail platforms won't be available in the north station in December 2011 and to reach the First Capital Connect ticket office, which will not have moved at this stage, you will need to take the stairs up to platform 1 and double back on yourself to reach the old station concourse.

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Great Portland Street is a London Underground station near Regent's Park. It is between Baker Street and Euston Square on the Hammersmith & City, Circle and Metropolitan lines. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

The station was part of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened between "Bishop's Road" (now Paddington) on the Hammersmith & City line and "Farringdon Street" (close to the present-day Farringdon station). It was opened on 10 January 1863 as "Portland Road", and was given its present name on 1 March 1917.

Local points of interest include Regent's Park, and the Post Office Tower. The station is very close to Regent's Park station, which is on the Bakerloo line.

The station is across the street from the main building of International Student House, a student residence and hostel and is also near Harley Street, famous for its doctors and surgeons.

The station is within easy walking distance of Regent's Park and Warren Street tube stations.

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Mornington Crescent is a London Underground station in Camden Town in north west London, named after the nearby street. The station is on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line, between Eustonand Camden Town. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station was opened as part of the original route of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line) on 22 June 1907. Prior to the station's opening, the name of "Seymour Street" had been proposed. After opening, it was little used, and for many years it was open only on weekdays, and before 1966 Edgware-bound trains passed through without stopping.

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Totteridge and Whetstone station was planned by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EH&LR) and was originally opened as Whetstone and Totteridge on 1 April 1872 by the Great Northern Railway (which had taken over the EH&LR).^[3] The station was on a branch of a line that ran from Finsbury Park to Edgware via Highgate.

After the 1921 Railways Act created the Big Four railway companies the line was, from 1923, part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). The section of the High Barnet branch north of East Finchleywas incorporated into the London Underground network through the "Northern Heights" project begun in the late 1930s. High Barnet station was first served by Northern line trains on 14 April 1940^[4] and, after a period where the station was serviced by both operators, LNER services ended in 1941.^[3] The station still retains much of its original Victorian architectural character today.

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Belsize Park tube station is a London Underground station in Belsize Park, North-West London. The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern Line, between Chalk Farm and Hampstead stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2. It is located at the northern end of Haverstock Hill. In July 2011 the station became a Grade II listed building.^[2]

The Royal Free Hospital is located a short distance to the north of the station.

Belsize Park is an area of north-west London, England, in the London Borough of Camden.

It is located 3.4 miles (5.5 km) north-west of Charing Cross and has a station on the Northern Line. Some nearby localities are Hampstead to the north and west, Kentish Town and Gospel Oak to the east,Camden Town to the south east and Primrose Hill to the south. It is a lively area with many restaurants, pubs and cafés along Haverstock Hill and also England's Lane. Hampstead Heath is a 10–12 minute walk. Primrose Hill park is 5 minutes walk from England's Lane and provides some of the best views of Central London.

Belsize Park is in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency whose present MP is Glenda Jackson.