Edgware Road | |
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 Edgware Road station (Bakerloo line) | |
  Edgware Road Location of Edgware Road in Central London | |
| Location | Edgware Road |
| Local authority | City of Westminster |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| OSI | Edgware Road (CDH)[1] |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2020 |  2.36 million[2] |
| 2021 | 2.18 million[3] |
| 2022 |  3.51 million[4] |
| 2023 | 3.44 million[5] |
| 2024 | 3.72 million[6] |
| Key dates | |
| 15 June 1907 | Opened as terminus (BS&WR) |
| 1 December 1913 | Became through station |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°31′13″N0°10′13″W / 51.520278°N 0.170278°W /51.520278; -0.170278 |
 London transport portal | |
Edgware Road (/ˈɛdʒwɛərˈroʊd/) is aLondon Underground station. It is on theBakerloo line betweenPaddington andMarylebone stations, and is inLondon fare zone 1. The station is located on the north-east corner of the junction ofEdgware Road,Harrow Road andMarylebone Road. It is adjacent to the Marylebone flyover. Aseparate station of the same name but served by theCircle,District andHammersmith & City lines is nearby, to the south of Marylebone Road.[note 1]
There have been proposals in the past to rename one of the Edgware Road stations to avoid confusion.[7] Neither of them should be confused withEdgware station, the northern terminus of the Edgware branch of theNorthern line.
Edgware Road station was opened on 15 June 1907 by theBaker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR, now the Bakerloo line) when it extended its line from the temporary northern terminus atMarylebone.[8] In common with other early stations of the lines owned by theUnderground Electric Railways Company of London, the station was designed by architectLeslie Green with an ox-blood red glazedterracotta façade. The BS&WR had parliamentary approval to continue the line to Paddington station, but the approved route, which curved under the main line station and ended under the junction ofSussex Gardens and Sussex Place on a south-easterly heading, was not suitable for the company's plan to extend west or north-west from Paddington. The BS&WR chose not to construct the tunnels west of Edgware Road whilst it considered alternatives.[9]
In 1908 the BS&WR considered a joint scheme with theNorth West London Railway (NWLR) to build a tube line from Edgware Road station toCricklewood viaKilburn.[10] The NWLR had obtained permission to build a line along Edgware Road from Cricklewood toMarble Arch in 1899;[11] although it received approval for an additional section from Marble Arch toVictoria in 1906, it had been unable to raise the money to build the line. The permitted NWLR route passed Edgware Road station and the companies sought permission in November 1908 for a section of tunnel 757 metres (2,484 ft) long linking the BS&WR and the NWLR tunnels. To make use of the BS&WR's existing permission for the line to Paddington, Edgware Road station was to be provided with a second pair of platforms to enable the operation of a shuttle service between Paddington and Edgware Road. The scheme was rejected and the line was not built.[10]
In 1911, permission was received to construct a tightly curved 890-metre (2,920 ft) long extension to Paddington which ended heading north-west under the main line station. Work started in August 1911 and the extension opened on 1 December 1913.[8][12] 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 Maryleboneflyover to be built, leaving the station as one of two isolated buildings. Originally, an exit from the station was provided in adjacent Bell Street. Although this is no longer used, the building provides office accommodation for the station managers.
In 1983,London Transport proposed to close the station on the basis that the passenger lifts, which at the time were 77 years old, needed to be replaced at a cost of more than £3 million.[13] The proposal was dropped following a request by theGLC for the matter to be reconsidered.[13]
In September 2007, there was a proposal byLondon Assembly memberMurad Qureshi to rename this stationChurch Street Market, as this would end the confusion between this station and its namesake on the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines.[14]
Between 25 May and 21 December 2013, the station closed temporarily for lift maintenance work.[15]
London Buses routes6,16,18,98 and night routesN18,N32 andN98 serve the station.[16][17]
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