Bakerloo Line Trains on January 20th 2019

Bakerloo Line Trains at Elephant & Castle, Waterloo, Embankment, Charing Cross and Piccadilly Circus.

All Bakerloo Line Trains are 7 car 1972 MkII stock which is at present the oldest tube stock at 47 years old however in this film you can see how much in bad shape they are in.

Elephant & Castle Tube Station opened on December 18th 1890 on the first tube railway in the world on the City and South London Railway between King William Street and Stockwell now todays Northern Line served by trains via Bank.

The Baker Street and Waterloo Railway opened on March 10th 1906 between Baker Street and Kennington Road now todays Lambeth North. The line was extended to Elephant and Castle on August 5th. The Bakerloo Line platforms numbered 3 and 4 are more of a through station rather than a terminus because there was at one time proposals to extend the line to Camberwell however never materialised although at present the extension of the tunnels are used for stabling.

Turnarounds for Bakerloo Line trains average 3 - 4 minutes and it's constant activity when one train leaves another arrives. Access to Street level is provided by Lifts and Sprial Staircase. National Rail interchange is provided 4 - 5 minutes away with Thameslink services to Sutton and Sevenoaks although there is no direct connection.

Waterloo one of the busiest mainline stations first opened in 1848 by the LSWR as Waterloo Bridge with just 3 platforms today there are 24 platforms with services being provided by South Western Railway which at the time of filming the former international platforms were being gradually brought back into use after closing on November 13th 2007 when Eurostar services having begun on May 6th 1994 were relocated via HS1 to St Pancras. Platforms 21 and 22 were brought back into full use in December 2018 with Platforms 23 and 24 due to be brought back into use by May 2019 with redevelopment of the concourse due to continue.

The 1st underground line to link with Waterloo was the Waterloo and City Line opened on August 7th 1898 when originally under Southern Railway which has been under LU ownership since April 1994. The Bakerloo platforms are tight curves with a 20mph speed limit. Access to London Road Depot can be accessed although only used for train stabling. The Northern Line opened on September 13th 1926 to Kennington from Embankment which the 2 lines parallel as far as Charing Cross.

Embankment first opened in 1870 on the Metropolitan District Railway todays Circle and District Lines. The Northern Line platforms opened in April 1913 from Charing Cross which Embankment was renamed to 2 years later in 1915. It became Charing Cross (Embankment) in 1974 before final being renamed Embankment in September 1976. Access from the station is to the Thames end of Charing Cross Mainline Station as well as Embankment Pier.

Charing Cross Underground Station for many years had 2 separate names with the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway opening on June 22nd 1907 had a name of Strand and Baker Street and Waterloo Railway having Trafalgar Square which was given at the time when Embankment was renamed. Strand (Northern Line) was closed in 1973 for total rebuild for arrival of the Jubilee Line which opened on May 1st 1979 with both Strand and Trafalgar Square Stations merged to todays Charing Cross station. The platform decor of both platforms on both lines date from 1982 designed by David Gentlemen taken from murals from the National Gallery.

The Jubilee Line platforms closed on November 20th 1999 when all services began running to Stratford although it would another 32 days later when all stations on the JLE were up and running. Services from the Mainline station originally opened in 1864 by the South eastern Railway are today provided here by Southeastern Trains.

Piccadilly Circus opened first by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway on March 10th 1906 provides interchange with the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway todays Piccadilly Line which opened 9 months later on December 15th 1906 between Hammersmith and Finsbury Park.

Access to the station today being provided by subway connections with the ticket hall layout redesigned by Charles Holden dates from 1928. The Bakerloo Line platforms are unusual especially in the Northbound direction where trains from the Southbound can be seen from tunnels running into the southbound platform which has a single crossover to enable trains in the south direction to reverse.

In fact between November 10th 1996 and July 14th 1997 due to strengthening of the tunnels under the River Thames between Embankment and Waterloo meant that all Bakerloo Line services were terminating at Piccadilly Circus on the southbound platform only.

The naming of the line came from the day of opening when Baker Street and Waterloo were merged into Bakerloo although the exact reason likely will never be known.

Filmed on Sunday January 20th 2019 on iPhone 8 and edited on iMovie

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