it's a lovely sunny day we're here at
Stonewall station it's time to do
secrets of the baekeland line
and in case you're thinking as Jeff lost
his mind
now I haven't did you know that stem war
used to be the terminus of the Bakerloo
line Stanmore is obviously on the
Jubilee Line now but spent 40 years as
as Bakerloo line station and even a
metropolitan Line station for nine years
before that the main Bakerloo line that
we know now at Harold stone has also
ended at Stonebridge Park Queens Park
and Watford junction in various
iterations over the years people often
ask me what's my favorite line or
station and save that for another day
but my least favorite sorry Bakerloo is
probably this section that we're on now
north of Queens Park up to Heron
Wellstone little bit unloved
there's a train here and there's
always like a couple of trains parked in
the sidings I just find it really spooky
just not at all beautiful don't like it
Queens Park may be my least favorite
station on the underground don't worry
south of Queens Park the Bakerloo gets a
lot nicer
so this exit a new staircase that made a
bell isn't used anymore but what is
lovely these mosaics the station dates
back to 1915 but recently won a Heritage
Award as an example of the right way to
modernize a historic building so out of
his own - and into Zone one next stop
some more tiles which reveal a previous
name to the National Railway Station
that malabo was once called always got
to be called Great Central
through Baker Street where you can't
help but notice Sherlock Holmes of
course and then on to our next station
several regions part chief station one
of only four stop from the Bakerloo line
not to have a surface building but
here's the most important thing you need
to know regions Park you might think
it's a place to come for Regents Park
for London Zoo before going to London
Zoo go to Camden Town station instead
it's nearer so heading for Piccadilly
Circus and a couple of things here I
need to employ the help of someone so
I'd like to introduce you to then and
you're happy to be my stooge my setup
man relatively happier relatively okay
I'm going to show you a secret which I
use all the time there's a sneaky
shortcut from the northbound Bakerloo
line platforms here down to the
Piccadilly lines so I made Ben go the
long way and I went the quick way just
to check to see who got there first
there you go that way
and I'm gonna head this way right so I
have the five signs for the Piccadilly
line so whilst Ben follows the official
signs I take this sneaky shortcut yeah
it's part of the old emergency spiral
staircase of which a small section
they've left in use the stairs
and then these deaths which admittedly
is against the flow of passengers who
may have just got off a train and I make
the Piccadilly line train that was very
quick another minute later and bed
eventually shows up at the platform you
mean this is the train after the one
that I would have got at last what can I
say if you dig on my way so you're
basically you go the the way they sign
you you can miss out by a whole train it
is signed as a shortcut from the
Piccadilly to the Bakerloo just not the
other way around this is probably my
favorite view not just on the Bakerloo
line but on the whole of the underground
here at Piccadilly Circus come to the
back of southbound trains or to the
front of northbound trains there's a
magical bit here where the wall isn't
there and you can see across onto the
other platform I know it's been well
I've been we had a quick look at the
Lego map which is temporary and the
lovely world clock which is rather more
permanent and then towards our last stop
on the line stand right at the back of
the platforms at Elephant and Castle and
you can see where an extension was
almost built to camber well it wasn't
but instead at night they put two trains
to sleep there every night they park two
trains in the sidings down here and in
the morning the first train out of
Elephant and Castle the driver steps
down onto the track walks long gets in
the Train
and then drive the hell so at the end of
the Bakerloo line at Elephant & Castle
there was already a tube station here
though 16 years earlier over here a
completely separate station built by the
city and staff London railway well of
course is now the Northern Line and
they're actually two separate stations
which weren't first initially linked
underground you had to change at street
level to get between the two competing
companies that's it we're at the end end
of the Bakerloo line a terminating
station in the zone one area which is a
rare thing I'm going back on the train
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