Baker Street tube station

Baker Street station stands at the crossing of Baker Street and Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It opened in 1863 as part of the Metropolitan Railway, the world’s first underground line. Five London Underground lines now serve the station: Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Bakerloo and Jubilee. The Circle and Hammersmith & City platforms lie beneath Marylebone Road, while the Bakerloo and Jubilee platforms sit deeper. Chiltern Court, designed by Charles Walter Clark, houses one of the station entrances. The station’s history begins with Charles Pearson’s plan for a railway from Farringdon to King’s Cross. John Fowler engineered the line, and construction cost £1.3 million. In 1868 a branch to Swiss Cottage opened from platforms then called Baker Street East. Later the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway reached the station in 1906, followed by the Jubilee line in 1979. A statue of Sherlock Holmes stands outside the Marylebone Road entrance. Visitors find a busy interchange with lifts, escalators and a lower concourse linking the lines. The station’s ticket hall and escalators date from the 1930s. Nearby are Regent’s Park, Lord’s Cricket Ground and the Sherlock Holmes Museum. The Chiltern Court Restaurant, opened in 1913, sits above one entrance.