Marlborough Road tube station
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox London station Marlborough Road is a disused London Underground station in St John's Wood, northwest London NW8, England. It opened in April 1868<ref name="CULG1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> on the Metropolitan & St. John's Wood Railway, the first northward extension from Baker Street of the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan line). It is located at the junction of Finchley Road and Queen's Grove.<ref name="disused-stations">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the mid-1930s, the Metropolitan line was suffering congestion at the south end of its main route, where trains from its many branches shared the limited capacity between Finchley Road and Baker Street. To ease this congestion, new deep-level tunnels were constructed between Finchley Road and the Bakerloo line tunnels at Baker Street; then, commencing on 20 November 1939,<ref name=CULG1 /> the Metropolitan's services toward Stanmore were transferred to the Bakerloo line (they are now on the Jubilee line) and ran to Baker Street through the new tunnels.
Upon the transfer, Marlborough Road station was closed and replaced by St John's Wood station, then on the Bakerloo line;<ref name=abbandono/> it had been little used, except (owing to its close proximity to Lord's Cricket Ground) during the cricket season.<ref name=abbandono>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}.</ref>
Shots of the remains of the platforms, and an outside shot of the station building and booking hall—which at the time was in use as a steak restaurant—were included in Metro-Land, a 1973 documentary presented by John Betjeman. The building housed a Chinese restaurant until 2009<ref name="mylondon">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and now contains a substation installed as part of the power upgrade programme to support the introduction of S stock on the Metropolitan line.<ref name="abbandono" />
Marlborough Road itself was renamed Marlborough Place in the 1950s.<ref name="abbandono" />
See also
Other Metropolitan line stations that closed with the opening of the new Bakerloo tunnels:
References
External links
- London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- "Marlborough Road", Hidden London Hangouts #3.08, London Transport Museum, YouTube, 27 February 2021
- Marlborough Road's Abandoned Tube Station, Jago Hazzard, YouTube, 1 June 2022
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