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| Location | Edgware Road |
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| Local authority | City of Westminster |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Platforms in use | 2 |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| LUL 2007 usage | 3.521 million[1] |
| LUL 2008 usage | 3.7 million[1] |
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| 1907 1913 |
Opened as terminus (BS&WR) Became through station |
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| List of stations | Underground · National Rail |
Edgware Road is a station on London Underground's Bakerloo Line, between Paddington and Marylebone stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.
The station building is on the corner of Edgware Road and Bell Street. It should not be confused with the other Edgware Road station, about 150 metres away on the opposite side of the Marylebone Flyover, served by the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City Lines.
Neither Edgware Road station should be confused with Edgware station at the northern end of the Northern Line.
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History
Edgware Road station was opened on 15 June 1907 by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR, now the Bakerloo Line) when it extended its line from the temporary northern terminus at Marylebone. In 1908, the BS&WR, keen to extend their line into north-west London, considered a joint scheme with the North West London Railway to build a tube line from Edgware Road station to Cricklewood via Kilburn. The plans also involved building two new platforms to provide an additional shuttle service on a new branch to Paddington.[2] The scheme was unsuccessful and the line was not built. Edgware Road station remained as the northern terminus until the BS&WR went ahead with its extension to Paddington, and the Bakerloo tube to Paddington opened on 1 December 1913.
In common with other early stations on the line and those of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway and the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway, the station was designed by architect Leslie Green with an ox-blood red glazed terracotta façade.
When the station opened its narrow frontage was in a row of shops, but the buildings to the south of the station were demolished in the 1960s to enable the Flyover to be built, leaving the station as one of two isolated buildings.
The station was temporarily closed between 24 June 1990 and 28 January 1992 for replacement of its lifts.
In September 2007, there was a proposal by London Assembly member Murad Qureshi to rename this station Church Street Market, as this would end the confusion between this station and the namesake station on the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines[3].
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Layout
| ⇒ Northbound | Bakerloo towards Harrow & Wealdstone ⇒ |
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| ⇐ Southbound | Bakerloo towards Elephant & Castle ⇐ |
References
- ^ a b Transport for London - London Underground performance update
- ^ Badsey-Ellis 2005, pp. 264-267.
- ^ "BBC News: Call to rename twin Tube stations". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6994475.stm. Retrieved 2007-09-14.
- Badsey-Ellis, Antony (2005) [2005]. "Building on Success: the 1890s". London's Lost Tube Schemes. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-293-3.
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towards Harrow & Wealdstone
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Coordinates: 51°31′12″N 0°10′12″W / 51.520°N 0.170°W
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