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today if it remained open]] "Lord's" refers to the nearby Lord's Cricket Ground . In the mid 1930s the Metropolitan line was suffering congestion at the south end of its main route where trains from its many branches were struggling to share the limited capacity of its tracks between Finchley Road and Baker Street stations. To ease this congestion a new section of deep-level tunnel was constructed between Finchley Road and the Bakerloo Line tunnels at Baker Street station. The Metropolitan line's Stanmore branch services were then transferred to the Bakerloo line on 20 November 1939 and diverted to run into Baker Street in the new tunnels, thus reducing the number of trains using the Metropolitan lines tracks. Metropolitan Line stations between Finchley Road and Baker Street were closed and a new St. John's Wood station was opened nearby on the Bakerloo line. The surface building survived into the late sixties before it was demolished. SEE ALSO Other Metropolitan Line stations closed with the opening of the deep tunnel section: |
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