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English: Platform at Trafalgar Square station (now Charing Cross tube station) on the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (now the Bakerloo line) of the London Underground, 1906.


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Title: The Street Railway Journal
Year: 1906
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ropolitan District Railway, which is now a completedfact. In addition to this scheme, there have been under con-struction for the past few years three entirely separate tubeor deep underground schemes, and the first of these to be West End at Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, OxfordCircus, and so on to Baker Street, where it will connect withthe Metropolitan Railway system running further into thenorth-westerly suburbs. Later on when the scheme is com-pleted it will also touch the Great Central Railway and theGreat Western Railway at Paddington. The engineers forthe construction of the line are Sir Benjamin Baker, Galbraith& Church and Dalrymple Hay, while the whole of the electri-cal equipment has been ably superintended by J. R. Chapman,chief engineer of the Underground Electric Railways Com-pany of London. The tube has been constructed practically in the same man-ner as other London tubes, and has been bored by means ofthe well-known Greathead cutting shields into the London
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TRAFALGAR .SOUARE STATION OF THE BAKER STREET &• WATERLOO SUBWAY completed, the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, is the onenow shown in the accompanying illustrations. To anyonestudying the map of London, it will be seen that the east andwest has been fairly well provided for with means of trans-portation. The north and south has had, however, little doneto enable one to be transported comfortably from the north-ern limits of the city to the southern portions. The City andSouth London tube was the first to make some effort in thatdirection, but as it is confined to the City and has no con-nection with the West End, it could only do a portion of thework. The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway will undoubt-edly fill a long felt want, as hitherto there have been almostno methods of communication between Charing Cross andthe West End of London and the north-western suburbs.This railway will now connect Waterloo Station, the greatterminus of the London & South Western Railwa

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