UK: Riding onboard London Underground tube between Edgware Road (closed) & Marylebone, Bakerloo Line A journey on the London Underground Bakerloo Line, the train passes through the closed Edgware Road station which is currently shut for station improvements, we then continue to Marylebone station. This clip was recorded 31st August 2013 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Edgware Road tube station on the Bakerloo line is a temporarily closed London Underground station in the City of Westminster. It is between Paddington and Marylebone stations on the line and falls within Travelcard zone 1. The station is located on the north-east corner of the junction of Edgware Road, Harrow Road and Marylebone Road. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marylebone tube station is between Baker Street and Edgware Road stations and is in Travelcard Zone 1. Compared to some of the other London termini, the mainline station's Underground links are poor. This is because the mainline station was opened thirty-six years after the Metropolitan Railway constructed the first part of what is now the northern section of the Circle Line which bypasses the station to the south. The underground station was opened on 27 March 1907 by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway under the name Great Central (following a change from the originally-intended name Lisson Grove), and was renamed Marylebone on 15 April 1917. The original name still appears in places on the platform wall tiling, although the tiling scheme is a replacement designed to reflect the original scheme. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The Bakerloo line is a line of the London Underground, coloured brown on the Tube map. It runs partly on the surface and partly at deep level, from Elephant and Castle in inner south-east London, via the West End, to Harrow & Wealdstone in the north-western outer suburbs. The line serves 25 stations, of which 15 are below ground. It is so called because it serves Baker Street and Waterloo. It is the ninth busiest line on the network, carrying over 111 million passengers annually. Originally called the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, the line was constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) and opened between Baker Street and Lambeth North (then called Kennington Road) on 10 March 1906. It was extended to Elephant & Castle five months later, on 5 August. The contraction of the name to "Bakerloo" rapidly caught on, and the official name was changed to match in July 1906. When work on the line started in June 1898, it had been financed by the mining entrepreneur and company promoter Whitaker Wright, who fell foul of the law over the financial proceedings involved and dramatically committed suicide at the Royal Courts of Justice, after being convicted in 1904. As a result, work on the line was stopped for a few months and did not resume until Charles Yerkes and UERL stepped in and took over the project. By 1913, the line had been extended from its original northern terminus at Baker Street to the west with interchange stations with the Great Central Railway at Marylebone and the Great Western Railway at Paddington, and a new station at Edgware Road. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The London Underground 1972 Stock is a fleet of trains used on the London Underground. The 1972 Stock was ordered to make up the shortfall in trains on the Northern line's 1959 Tube Stock fleet. It is, however, currently used on the Bakerloo line. Since July 2011 it is the oldest deep-level Tube stock in service on London Underground, after the last of the almost identical 1967 stock on the Victoria Line was withdrawn on 30 June 2011. When the C Stock on the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines is withdrawn in 2015, these trains will become the oldest trains on the London Underground and also on any rapid transit system in the United Kingdom. A total of 252 cars were ordered from Metro-Cammell and later refurbished by Tickford and Rosyth Dockyard. In the early 1970s the 1938 Tube stock on the Bakerloo and Northern lines was life-expired and due for replacement. Tentative designs for a new Northern Line fleet were abandoned when the go-ahead was given for the Piccadilly Line to be extended to Heathrow Airport. That required a totally new fleet of trains to replace the 1959 stock then in use. The plan was made to transfer the 1959 trains to the Northern, to allow the worst of the 1938 stock there to be scrapped, but there were only 76 1959 Tube stock trains, and the Northern Line needed more than that to operate. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ More FrontCompVidsclips are regularly added to so don't forget to Like and Subscribe! Click http://www.youtube.com/user/FrontCompVids/videos for more details :-)

• published: 29 Oct 2013
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