Baker Street Station

Address: Marylebone Rd, London NW1 6UY
Opened: 10th January 1863
Station Code: BST
Fare Zone: 1

London Underground Line(s) Served:

Bakerloo Line
Circle Line
Hammersmith & City Line
Jubilee Line
Metropolitan Line

Service Pattern(s):

Bakerloo Line

6 Trains Per Hour to Harrow & Wealdstone

3 Trains Per Hour to Stonebridge Park

11 Train Per Hour tph to Queen’s Park

20 Trains Per Hour to Elephant & Castle

Circle Line

6 Trains Per Hour to Edgware Road (Clockwise)

6 Trains Per Hour to Hammersmith (Anti Clockwise)

Hammersmith & City Line

6 Trains Per Hour to Barking or Plaistow

6 Trains Per Hour to Hammersmith

Jubilee Line

24 Trains Per Hour to Stratford

12 Trains Per Hour to Stanmore

4 Trains Per Hour to West Hampstead

4 Trains Per Hour to Willesden Green

4 Trains Per Hour to Wembley Park

Metropolitan Line

12 Trains Per Hour to Aldgate

4 Trains Per Hour Terminate Here

2 Trains Per Hour to Amersham

2 Trains Per Hour to Chesham

4 Trains Per Hour to Watford

8 Trains Per Hour to Uxbridge

Interchange(s)

OSI: Marylebone (National Rail) – 550 Metres

Station History

Baker Street Station was constructed as part of the World’s first Underground railway between Paddington and Farringdon by the Metropolitan Railway in 1860, opening three years later on 10th January 1863.

Five years later, the Metropolitan & St John’s Wood Railway opened a line constructed in tunnels from Baker Street to Swiss Cottage, with the Metropolitan Railway providing all services.

Following extensions in the late 1870s and early 1880s the M&SJWR duplicated their existing tunnel from the station before being absorbed into the Metropolitan Railway.

November 1891 saw the presentation of a bill to Parliament for the construction of the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway. The new line would run from Marylebone to Elephant and Castle and the bill was approved in 1900.

Construction commenced in August 1900 and the line saw its first trains in 1905, albeit only for test purposes, with the official opening between Waterloo and Lambeth North occurring on 10th March 1906.

Baker Street served as the temporary terminus for this line until 27th March 1907, when the rest of the line to Marylebone was opened.

In 1914, the Leslie Green-designed BS&WR station building was supplemented by a new concourse constructed under the Metropolitan Railway, allowing direct connections via escalators instead of the original lifts supplied at opening.

With the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, the Metropolitan Railway and Baker Streeet & Waterloo Railway were amalgamated with other Underground Railway companies to form London Underground, with the lines becoming the Metropolitan and Bakerloo respectively.

Due to a bottleneck at Finchley Road created by the reduction of four tracks to two, the LPTB decided to extend the Bakerloo Line north from Baker Street as a branch line, taking over the existing Metropolitan Line stopping service from Finchley Road to Stanmore. Construction began in April 1936 and a new ticket hall adjacent to the existing facility was provided at the station before the new branch commenced service on 20th November 1939.

In the late 1960s, a proposal was made for the Bakerloo line branch to Stanmore to be included in a new line extending from Baker Street via Bond Street, Trafalgar Square and Cannon Street before heading to South London. The new ‘Fleet Line’ was approved as far as a new terminus at Charing Cross and construction commenced in early 1970.

A new northbound platform was constructed as part of the line at Baker Street and the now Jubilee Line opened along its entirety on 1st May 1979.

The station building, its sub-surface platforms and front retaining wall were granted Grade II Listed Status on 26th March 1987.