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Address: Aldersgate St, London
EC1A 4JA
Opened: 23rd December 1865
Station Code: BAB
Fare Zone: 1

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London Underground Line(s) Served:

Circle Line
Hammersmith & City Line
Metropolitan Line

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Service Pattern(s):

Circle Line
6 trains Per Hour clockwise to Edgware Road
6 Trains Per Hour anti-clockwise to Hammersmith

Hammersmith & City Line
6 Trains Per Hour eastbound to Barking
6 Trains Per Hour westbound to Hammersmith

Metropolitan Line
12 trains per hour eastbound to Aldgate
2 trains per hour westbound to Amersham (all stations)
2 trains per hour westbound to Chesham (all stations)
8 trains per hour westbound to Uxbridge (all stations)

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Interchange(s)

None

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Station History

Aldersgate Street Station was opened by the Metropolitan Railway on their extension from Farringdon to Moorgate on 23rd December 1865.

Becoming a victim of its own success, the Metropolitan Railway constructed another pair of tracks between King’s Cross and Moorgate known as the City Widened Lines to allow other railway companies to access the area without interrupting the passenger service.

The new lines opened, with the first trains run by the Great Northern Railway in 1868, followed by the Midland Railway.

The station name was simplified on 1st November 1910 when the station became Aldersgate, before being renamed to Aldersgate and Barbican Station on 24th October 1924.

Following the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, the Metropolitan Railway was absorbed by the new entity, becoming the Metropolitan Line. Mainline rail services remained under the ownership of their existing companies.

During World War II, the station and its surrounding area suffered severe bomb damage during German air raids, including one in December 1940 that caused most of the building above the station to collapse. This also caused a blockage of the line and severe disruption to train services.

The remains of the bomb-damaged building were removed and, in 1955 the remainder of the street-level building accessing the station was demolished.

As part of the planning for the Barbican Estate, 500 metres of the Metropolitan Line was relaid in tunnels between the station and Moorgate between 1963 and 1965.

The station was renamed for the final time on 1st December 1968 when to better fit the surrounding area, it was simplified to Barbican station.

Having passed to British Railways in 1948 and continued through privatisation, the final mainline rail services through the station ran in March 2009 when, as part of the Thameslink Programme, the line was severed at Farringdon to allow the platforms there to be lengthened.

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

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London Underground Line(s) Served:

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

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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

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Interchange(s)

OSI: Marylebone (National Rail) – 550 Metres

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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.

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Address: Aldgate High St,
London EC3N 1AH
Opened: 18th November 1876
Station Code: ALD
Fare Zone: 1

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London Underground Line(s) Served:

Circle Line, Metropolitan Line

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Service Pattern(s):

Circle Line – 6 trains per hour in each direction

Metropolitan Line –

2 trains per hour to Amersham
2 trains per hour to Chesham
8 trains per hour to Uxbridge
12 trains terminating here

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OSI:

Aldgate East (280 Metres) for District and Hammersmith & City Lines
Tower Gateway (500 Metres) for Docklands Light Railway
Fenchurch Street (400 Metres) for National Rail

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Station History

Aldgate Station was opened as their new terminus by the Metropolitan Railway on 18th November 1876. The construction and opening of the station had been delayed due to the discovery of a plague pit during the excavation of the site, reportedly containing up to 1000 bodies.

The station itself only remained as a terminus for just under six years, when the Metropolitan extended their line to a temporary terminus at Tower Hill, opening on 25th September 1882.

Due to the resolution of a conflict between the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways, a joint station was constructed at Tower Hill and the Inner Circle Line was completed. This led to an increase in services through Aldgate.

With this increase, the station facilities were found to be inadequate, and a new station building designed by the Metropolitan Railway’s chief architect, Charles Walter Clark was constructed and opened in 1926.

Following the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board on July 1st 1933, the new entity took control of all the stations and services of the London Underground. In 1941, Metropolitan Line services, which had until now run through to the East London Line, were truncated to terminate at Aldgate while Circle Line services continued to pass through.

Nothing of note occurred at the station in the following decades until, on 7th July 2005 a terrorist attack on London saw a device detonated on a train approaching Aldgate Station. Seven passengers lost their lives on that day and the damage caused led to all trains terminating at Moorgate until repairs were completed.

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