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Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863. [8] The station is in Travelcard Zone 1 and is served by five lines. [9]
Geographic route map of the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. The Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR), also known as the Bakerloo tube, was a railway company established in 1893 that built a deep-level underground "tube" railway in London. [a] The company struggled to fund the work, and construction did not begin until 1898.
The Baker Street and Waterloo Railway had been authorised to run from Baker Street to Waterloo station. [57] Work began in 1898, and extensions to Paddington station and Elephant & Castle were authorised in 1900, but came to a halt with the collapse of their financial backers during 1901. Yerkes bought the rights to this railway in 1902. [56]
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Printed in brown on the Tube map, it serves 25 stations, 15 of which are underground, over 23.2 kilometres (14.4 mi). It runs partly on the surface and partly through deep-level tube tunnels. The line's name is a portmanteau of its original name, the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway. [2]
Baker Street area map. Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London. It is named after builder William Baker, who laid out the street in the 18th century. The area was originally high class residential, but now is mainly occupied by commercial premises. The street is referenced in multiple popular works.
Marylebone station lies two miles north-west of Charing Cross. The area is also served by numerous tube stations: Baker Street, Bond Street, Edgware Road (Bakerloo line), Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines), Great Portland Street, Marble Arch, Marylebone, Oxford Circus, and Regent's Park.
Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR) granted powers to build a tube railway from Waterloo to Baker Street. [25] 1897 Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway granted powers to build a tube railway from Piccadilly Circus to South Kensington. [26] DR obtains powers to construct a tube railway from Gloucester Road to Mansion to run below its ...