BAKER STREET

 is a station on the London Underground at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road. The station lies in Travel card 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

History

Metropolitan Railway (now Metropolitan line)

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.

 

 

 

History

 

Metropolitan Railway (now Metropolitan line)

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.his 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.