Marylebone station

Marylebone is a railway station north-west of central London in the Marylebone district. He is one of the smallest terminal stations in the city. The railway company Chiltern Railways operates from here trains to Birmingham. Under the railway station is a station of the Bakerloo line of the London Underground. In the year 2011 there were 11.758 million passengers the station, further 10.4 million the subway station.

Railway

Construction and operation

The station has six platforms: Five date from the year 1899, one was demolished in the late 1960s and in September 2006 he added two new ones. Marylebone is the only railway terminus in London without electrified access route and apart from Blackfriars the only one that is not operated by the rail infrastructure company Network Rail; this task is performed instead Chiltern Railways.

Suburban and express trains from Chiltern Railways operate on the Chiltern Main Line from London to Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Bicester, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Stratford -upon -Avon, Birmingham (Snow Hill ) and Kidderminster. Five times daily express trains run by Wrexham & Shropshire in the county of Shropshire and Wrexham in North Wales.

History

The station was opened on 15 March 1899. He was the starting point of the Great Central Main Line, the last of the Great Central Railway (GCR) existing main railway line to London. The Henry William Braddock, the engineer of the GCR, designed station building is decorated in a similar style baroque. Originally ten platforms were provided, but the construction of the railway line proved to be much more expensive than planned, and almost led to the bankruptcy of the company. For cost -saving reasons, the station had therefore to be massively reduced to five platforms, four of them in the hall and one west of it outdoors.

The Great Central Railway linking London with Aylesbury, Rugby, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester. However, the volume of traffic has never been particularly high since the rail line was built relatively late and against the established lines (especially the Midland Railway) could not prevail. The route ran through predominantly rural area. However, in contrast to the relatively low passenger traffic, the volume of freight traffic was high.

1964 several scenes of the Beatles movie Hard Day's Night were filmed in Marylebone railway station. From 1960 wrong no cross Nottingham addition. 1966 joined British Rail as a result of a comprehensive decommissioning program ( Beeching Axe ) almost all routes north of Aylesbury and the volume of traffic increased still further. Marylebone only served as a starting point for suburban trains to Aylesbury and High Wycombe, due to lack of investment collapsed slowly to the train station. In the early 1980s there were plans to close the station entirely to divert trains to Paddington and Marylebone rebuild in a suburban bus terminal. But these plans are eventually dropped.

The creeping decay was halted in the late 1980s when British Rail decided to divert numerous trains from Paddington to Marylebone Station congested. The station was a multi-million dollar renovation subjected ( financed by the sale of the former goods station area ), there were built two new platforms and suburban trains were modern rolling stock. The two new platforms were, however, some years later closed to make way for a housing development.

After the privatization of British Rail, the new company Chiltern Railways took over in 1996, the operation of the station and led, among other things, a new fast train to Birmingham, which proved to be a resounding success. The closure of the parking facilities at Marylebone train station and the opening of a new depot in Wembley in 2006 managed the space required to build two platforms can again. In the same year a new company called Wrexham & Shropshire, which began running trains in the direction of Wales in early 2008 and ceased operations in January 2011 founded.

Subway

Located under the railway station metro station is served by trains of the Bakerloo Line. Access is via escalators from the main hall, where the switches are located by London Underground. Was opened the station on March 27, 1907 At the beginning it was called Great Central. ; renaming in Marylebone on 15 April 1917. Today's access has existed since 1943. Previously, the subway had its own, designed by Leslie Green building with elevators at the junction of Harewood Avenue and Harewood Row. The building was demolished in 1971, on whose site is now a hotel.

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