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  Bakerloo Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Bakerloo services to Watford were cut back in the 1960s and eventually withdrawn in 1982 with Stonebridge Park serving as the new terminus.
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.
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 Bakerloo Line : Bakerloo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Beyond its original terminus of Baker Street, the Bakerloo was extended via interchanges with the GWR at Paddington and the Great Central at Marylebone[?] to Queens Park[?], where it joined the "DC Lines" of the London and North Western Railway and ran alongside the LNWR's main line as far as Watford Junction[?].
Bakerloo services to Watford were cut back in the 1960s and eventually withdrawn in 1982.
The Stanmore branch remained part of the Bakerloo until 1979, when it became part of the Jubilee Line.
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 Oxford Circus tube station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the Central Line it is between Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road, on the Bakerloo line it is between Regent's Park and Piccadilly Circus, and on the Victoria line it is between Green Park and Warren Street.
Escalators were opened to replace the lifts to the Bakerloo line platforms in 1914 and to the Central Line platforms in 1925.
Cross-platform interchange between the Bakerloo and Victoria lines was provided by constructing the Victoria line platforms parallel to the Bakerloo line ones.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxford_Circus_tube_station   (486 words)

  
 Line facts - Transport for London
The Bakerloo line was extended from Baker Street to Queen's Park in 1915 and further north over existing suburban railway tracks to Watford Junction by 1917.
The Bakerloo line covers 23.2 km (14.5 miles) and serves 25 stations, of which 15 are managed either by other Underground lines or, north of Queen's Park, by North London Railways.
The Bakerloo Line is the only line on the Underground to run trains in passenger service through a depot at Queens Park, where a depot is situated immediately North of the station.
www.londontransport.co.uk /tube/company/linefacts?line=bakerloo   (1734 words)

  
 Bakerloo Line -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Bakerloo Line is a line of the (Click link for more info and facts about London Underground) London Underground, coloured brown on the (Click link for more info and facts about Tube map) Tube map.
Bakerloo services to Watford were cut back in the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s and eventually withdrawn in 1982 with (Click link for more info and facts about Stonebridge Park) Stonebridge Park serving as the new terminus.
The Stanmore branch remained part of the Bakerloo until 1979, when it was separated to become part of the (Click link for more info and facts about Jubilee Line) Jubilee Line.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bakerloo_line.htm   (951 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Bakerloo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Stanmore branch remained part of the Bakerloo until 1979, when it was separated to become part of the Jubilee Line.
An extension on the southern end of the line to Camberwell was proposed in 1949 but withdrawn by 1951.
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 Silverlink).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bakerloo   (483 words)

  
 LURS: Underground News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Separate passages were provided for Piccadilly line passengers entering and leaving the platforms; passengers wishing to join Piccadilly line trains were deposited in a cross passage near the east end of the eastbound platform and those leaving had to make their way to the east headwall of the eastbound platform.
The entrance from the passageway to the northbound Bakerloo platform was exceptionally wide and was supported by a centre pier to prevent subsidence.
The staircase had three lower landings, the top one for the Bakerloo, the next with a connection across to the Piccadilly passage to the platforms and the lowest one for the Piccadilly passage from the platfoms.
www.lurs.org.uk /un/picc.htm   (1871 words)

  
 CMT.com : Bakerloo : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bakerloo was also one of the support acts on Oct. 18, 1968, the night Led Zeppelin made their debut at London's Marquee Club.
Bakerloo were among the early signings to EMI's Harvest label, where they made their debut in the middle of 1969 with the single "Driving Backwards" b/w"Once Upon A Time" in July.
Bakerloo were one of the more sophisticated blues-oriented power trios, and that might've been their undoing in finding an audience.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/bakerloo/bio.jhtml   (272 words)

  
 Bakerloo Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Bakerloo Line is a line of the LondonUnderground, coloured brown on the Tube map.
The Bakerloo was extended beyond its original terminus of Baker Street via interchanges with the GWR at Paddington and the Great Central at Marylebone to Queens Park,where it joined the "DC Lines" of the London and North Western Railway and ran alongside the LNWR's main line as far as Watford Junction.
Bakerloo services to Watford were cutback in the 1960s and eventually withdrawn in 1982.The current northern terminus is Harrowand Wealdstone, and trains still share the tracks with local services from Euston to Watford.
www.therfcc.org /bakerloo-line-115637.html   (439 words)

  
 CULG - Bakerloo Line
The route of the Bakerloo includes the oldest attempt at a tube railway: the Waterloo and Whitehall Railway was authorised in 1865 to construct a pneumatic railway (that is, one where trains are pushed though a tunnel by air pressure) from Great Scotland Yard to Waterloo station.
It was found that on the Bakerloo, the outside power rail tended to leak to ground via the tunnel walls, while on the District the centre rail tended to leak to ground.
During the period that the Stanmore branch was part of the Bakerloo, the main depot was that at Neasden.
www.davros.org /rail/culg/bakerloo.html   (2507 words)

  
 TroyRutter.com - Music : Bakerloo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bakerloo was formed in 1968 Dave "Clem" Clempson on guitar, piano, and vocals, Keith Baker on drums, and Terry Poole on bass and vocals.
The band's lone lp "Bakerloo" was a lost classic of heavy progressive British blues.
Anyone heading for London's famous Marquee Club on Oct 18th 1968 was in for a memorable evening, for making only their second U.K. appearance was a new group by the name of Led Zeppelin.
www.troyrutter.com /B000058B2U/Bakerloo.htm   (279 words)

  
 Bakerloo Line - Wikipedia
Die daraus abgeleitete Abkürzung Bakerloo war bald viel geläufiger und der offizielle Name wurde entsprechend geändert.
Die Bakerloo übernahm von der Metropolitan Line den Linienast nach Stanmore.
Seit 1949 gibt es Pläne für eine Verlängerung von Elephant and Castle nach Camberwell; doch diese Strecke wurde bisher wegen Geldmangels nie gebaut.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bakerloo_Line   (397 words)

  
 CULG - Jubilee Line
New tubes were built, but from the Bakerloo Line station at Baker Street and surfacing at Finchley Road, while two of the Metropolitan tracks from there to Wembley Park, plus the Stanmore branch, were transferred to the Bakerloo.
By the 1970s the southern end of the Bakerloo was overcrowded for the same reason that the Metropolitan had been - two busy suburban branches were feeding a single route in the central London area - and it was decided to build a new line to relieve it.
The original Bakerloo station at Baker Street was built on two levels so that the line immediately west of the station could fit under a narrow road.
www.davros.org /rail/culg/jubilee.html   (1656 words)

  
 21 July 2005 London bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Many parts of the London Underground system including the Victoria Line, Northern Line, Hammersmith and City Line, Bakerloo Line and Piccadilly Line were suspended.
The Bakerloo Line was entirely suspended and reopened later the same day
The Bakerloo and Piccadilly closures were reportedly due to train drivers refusing to work, rather than because of incidents on the lines (BBC News).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/21_July_2005_London_bombings   (4361 words)

  
 Paddington Station on the London Tube Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
By 1913, the Bakerloo line had been built as far as Paddington, as can be seen in the monochrome map below.
Note that the Bakerloo line is deeper than the Metropolitan line.
The drawn line of the Bakerloo line in Beck's schematic preserves the southward swerve of the deep tunnel, before it heads north.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~ursa/peter/trains/padd.htm   (2056 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Station by Station Guide to the London Underground - Bakerloo line
It is also the scene of an incident in 2005 in which shots were fired at a policeman.
The Bakerloo section is separate to the Hammersmith and City, District and Circle line platforms.
When the name of the line was officially changed to Bakerloo later that year the station name also reverted to 'Wesminster Bridge Road' and remained as such until 1917, when it was renamed Lambeth North.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A3662390   (1071 words)

  
 Bakerloo
In order to facilitate the transition to the new PPP structure when the contractual arrangements are in place, the operational side of the Underground has been reorganised, with a structure based on individual lines or groups of lines replaced by one reflecting the proposed Infraco groupings.
From September 1999, the Bakerloo Line has been grouped with the Central and Waterloo and City and Victoria Lines, with Bob Bayman, Train Service Manager (BCV), and Andy Byford, Station Services Manager (BCV), jointly responsible for delivering train and station services which meet customers' requirements.
The Bakerloo Line covers 23.2 km (14.5 miles) and serves 25 stations, of which 14 are managed either by other Underground lines or, north of Queen's Park, by North London Railways.
www.uni-duesseldorf.de /fjks/klassen/London/Bakerloo.htm   (758 words)

  
 KING OF WOOLWORTHS - Bakerloo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On this evidence that album should be somerhing to look forward to.
'Bakerloo' is a charming slice of instumental ambience, with chiming, melodic bells atop a shuffling, percussive beat.
It's a real grower and is aided and abetted by two remixes from label mates Saint Etienne and Ladytron.
www.barcodezine.com /revkingofwoolworthsbakerloo17022004.htm   (108 words)

  
 Sarah's Tube Train Page
Nevertheless, when the Line opened between Baker Street and Lambeth North on 10th March 1906, over 36,000 customers were carried despite the fact that the cricket season had yet to start.
Originally known as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, the name was officially changed in July 1906 to the Bakerloo Railway reflecting t he nickname coined by the Evening News.
Many of the stations, though subsequently refurbished, date from the early years of this century and were designed in the "Arts and Crafts" style by the Underground Group's Architect, Leslie Green.
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 Trainsimcentral
It covers the Northbound Bakerloo line between Elephant and Castle, Queen's Park and the northern terminus of Harrow and Wealdstone on the WCML.
The Bakerloo line is currently run entirely by refurbished 1972 Mk II trains.
All original objects and textures built specifically for the Bakerloo Line routes are © Copyright Paul Jobber, Robert Hull or Steve Green and must not be re-used, or adapted for public release without seeking prior permission via e-mail.
www.trainsimcentral.co.uk /bakerloo.htm   (730 words)

  
 Salon | 21st
He reaches Embankment station on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground, better known as the Tube, and sits down on another passenger.
Geoff Ryman is actually a very tall Canadian with a slightly nervous disposition who lives in London and writes award-winning novels that can loosely be described as science fiction.
A Bakerloo line train has seven carriages, each with 36 seats, for a total of 252.
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 Bakerloo MP3 Downloads - Bakerloo Music Downloads - Bakerloo Music Videos
One of the first acts signed to the fledgling Harvest label in 1969, Bakerloo were very much a product of their time, a hard-hitting progressive blues band whose predilections ranged from a straightforward assimilation of Willie Dixon to some positively dazzling flashes of instrumental prowess.
Guitarist Dave Clempson's "Big Bear Folly," the opening cut on the band's first and only album, is a dazzling Ten Years After-style showcase, while a jazzy variation on a theme of Bach, the aptly titled "Driving Bachwards," proves that the band wasn't averse to messing with the classics, either.
Bakerloo were not long for this earth -- Clempson quit to join Colosseum shortly after the album's release; Poole reappeared alongside Graham Bond; drummer Keith Baker departed for Uriah Heep; and Bakerloo itself disappeared off the shelves fairly quickly.
www.mp3.com /albums/23931/summary.html   (364 words)

  
 Bakerloo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But there was a significant difference between Creams onstage and studio work: on vinyl, the extended instrumental workouts were often tethered, and the bands commercial success was in no small part due to their equal skill in crafting concise and memorable singles.
Bakerloo, as with many Cream disciples, shunned pop sensibilities in favour of jazz-tinged ramblingslt;pgt;Since its release on the prestigious Harvest label in 1969 this album has been sought after by collectors, although this is arguably due to the subsequent careers of the band members.
Your enjoyment of the CD may depend heavily upon your reason for listening.
www.wkonline.com /a/Bakerloo_B000058B2U.htm   (595 words)

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