Baker Street tube station
Baker Street is a London Underground station in the borough of City of Westminster, at the junction of Baker Street and Marylebone Road. Located in the Travelcard Zone 1 station is one of the most important hubs in the entire Underground network. Here courses of the Bakerloo Line, Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line, Jubilee Line and Metropolitan Line. In 2011, 27.02 million passengers used the station.
Station system
In the immediate vicinity are the wax museum Madame Tussauds, the London Planetarium and Regent 's Park. At the entrance to the Marylebone Road since 2005, is a large statue of Sherlock Holmes, who lived in the novels by Arthur Conan Doyle in 221b Baker Street.
The nearly subsurface platforms of the Circle Line, the Metropolitan Line and the Hammersmith & City Line are part of the oldest subway line in the world and the best preserved in its original condition relating to this section. Panels on the walls depict old plans and photographs of the station.
The platforms are connected to the aboveground station located the Metropolitan Line. It is similar to a terminal station, because almost all trains of this line have their terminus here. However, there is a track connection to the ring route, which is used by some trains. The station of the Metropolitan Line is rebuilding with the Chiltern Court, a luxury residential and commercial building with approximately 45,000 square meters of floor space, the 1929 was opened by the Metropolitan Railway, the predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line. One of the first tenants of the 180 apartments were the writer Arnold Bennett and HG Wells.
Deep beneath the platforms of the ring route are the platforms of the Bakerloo Line and the Jubilee Line. They are arranged side by side, so that it can be upgraded to the same platform between these two lines.
History
The Baker Street station was opened on 10 January 1863 as part of the route between Paddington and Farringdon on the Metropolitan Railway, the oldest subway line in the world. With the opening of the aboveground station on 13 April 1868, the route to the Swiss Cottage expansion began in the west.
On 10 March 1906, the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ( as the Bakerloo Line was then called ) the first section towards Lambeth North. The branch line of the Metropolitan Line to Stanmore was broadcast on 20 November 1939, the Bakerloo Line, which also took over the local transport to Wembley Park. The Jubilee Line replaced on 1 May 1979, the Bakerloo Line on the Stanmore branch line; on the same day was also the new line to Charing Cross in operation.