Bakerloo Line


	ColourName	Brown
	TextColour	White
	YearOpened	1906
	DeepOrSurface	Deep Tube
	RollingStock	1972 Tube Stock
	StationsServed	25
	LengthKm	232
	LengthMiles	145
	AnnualPassengers	95,947,000
	Depots	Stonebridge Park<br />London Road

The Bakerloo Line is a line of the London Underground and coloured brown on the Tube Map . It is a deep-level line running from the south-east to the north-west of London.

HISTORY

Originally called the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway the line was constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company Of London Limited and opened in 1906 . The contraction of the name to "Bakerloo" rapidly caught on, and the official name was changed to such.
By 1913 , the Bakerloo line had been extended from its original northern terminus at Baker Street to the west providing interchange stations with the Great Central Railway at Marylebone and the Great Western Railway at Paddington as well as a new station at Edgware Road . In 1915 the line was extended further to Queens Park , where it joined the " DC Lines" of the London And North Western Railway (LNWR) and ran alongside the LNWR's main line (now the West Coast Main Line ) as far as Watford Junction . Bakerloo services to Watford were cut back in the 1960s and eventually withdrawn in 1982 with Stonebridge Park serving as the new terminus. The current northern terminus is Harrow & Wealdstone , and trains still share the tracks with local Silverlink services from Euston to Watford.

In 1939 a new stretch of the Underground was opened between Baker Street and Finchley Road , allowing the Bakerloo to take over the branch of the Metropolitan Line to Stanmore . The Stanmore branch remained part of the Bakerloo until 1979 , when it was separated to become part of the newly constructed Jubilee Line .

An extension to the southern end of the line to Camberwell was proposed in 1949 but has never been built.

The line celebrated its centenary on March 10 2006 when various events were organised on the line to publicise the event {Link without Title} . Over the next few years the northern section of the line may again see changes following the decision in February 2006 to transfer the Euston - Watford suburban services (the "DC" lines) from Silverlink Metro to Transport for London.

TRAINS

All Bakerloo line trains are painted in the distinctive London Underground livery of Red, White and Blue and are the smaller size of the two sizes used on the network since trains travel on the line deep underground in small tunnels.

The interior of these trains has recently been 'deep cleaned' and the seating has also been replaced to a more appealing blue. The seating layouts are longitudinal and transverse with some carriges only having longitudinal seating.

MAP

STATIONS

''in order from north to south''

''Note: Between Watford Junction and Queen's Park, the Bakerloo line used surface lines and stations belonging to the London And North Western Railway (subsequently British Rail and now Silverlink ). These stations were and mostly still are jointly operated by the Underground and the mainline rail company.''

Surface section