Baker Street (London Underground)
Baker Street is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster at the junction of Baker Street and Marylebone Road. The station in the Travelcard tariff zone 1 is one of the most important hubs in the entire underground network. Trains run here on the Bakerloo Line , the Circle Line , the Hammersmith & City Line , the Jubilee Line and the Metropolitan Line . In 2014, 32.18 million passengers used the station.
Station system
The Madame Tussauds wax museum , the London Planetarium and Regent's Park are in the immediate vicinity . At the entrance on Marylebone Road there has been a large statue of Sherlock Holmes , who lived in the novels of Arthur Conan Doyle at 221B Baker Street , since 2005 .
The platforms of the Circle Line, the Metropolitan Line and the Hammersmith & City Line, which lie just below the surface, are part of the oldest underground line in the world and the best preserved in their original state on this section of the route. Display boards on the walls show old plans and photos of the station.
The platforms are connected to the metropolitan line station above ground. It resembles a railway terminus , because almost all the features of this line have here their last stop. However, there is a track connection to the ring line that is used by some trains. The Metropolitan Line station is surrounded by Chiltern Court , a luxurious residential and commercial building with around 45,000 square meters of floor space that was opened in 1929 by the Metropolitan Railway , the predecessor of the Metropolitan Line. The writers Arnold Bennett and HG Wells were among the first tenants of the 180 apartments .
The platforms of the Bakerloo Line and the Jubilee Line are located deep below the platforms of the ring line. They are arranged next to each other so that you can transfer between these two lines on the same platform.
history
Baker Street station was opened on January 10, 1863 by the Metropolitan Railway as part of the line between Paddington and Farringdon , the oldest underground line in the world. With the opening of the above-ground station on April 13, 1868 and the line to Swiss Cottage , the expansion towards the northwest began.
On March 10, 1906, the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (as the Bakerloo Line was then called) opened the first section towards Lambeth North . The branch line of the Metropolitan Line to Stanmore was transferred to the Bakerloo Line on November 20, 1939, which also took over local traffic to Wembley Park . The Jubilee Line replaced the Bakerloo Line on May 1, 1979 on the Stanmore branch line; The new line to Charing Cross went into operation on the same day .
Web links
- Station building (September 1933)
- London Underground Lost and Found (November 1933)
- Night Maintenance (June 1959)
Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNTS - 2014 - annual entries & exits. (PDF, 44 kB) (No longer available online.) Transport for London, 2015, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on September 3, 2018 (English).
- ^ Christian Wolmar : The subterranean railway: How the London Underground was built and how it changed the city forever. Atlantic Books, London 2005, ISBN 978-1-84354-023-6 , pp. 245f.
| Previous station | Transport for London | Next station |
|---|---|---|
| Marylebone |
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Regent's Park |
| Edgware Road |
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Great Portland Street |
| Edgware Road |
|
Great Portland Street |
| St. John's Wood |
|
Bond Street |
|
Lord’s (closed) |
|
Great Portland Street |
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 21 ″ N , 0 ° 9 ′ 26 ″ W.