Swiss Cottage tube station

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Swiss Cottage is a London Underground station at Swiss Cottage, London. It was opened in 1939 as a stop on the Bakerloo line. Today, the station is on the Jubilee line between Finchley Road and St John's Wood stations. It lies in London fare zone 2 and is located at the junction of Finchley Road, Avenue Road and College Crescent. The station is a local station, with the Metropolitan line bypassing the station nearby.

Swiss Cottage is 550 yards (500 m) from South Hampstead station on the London Overground's Lioness line, however this is not a recognised out-of-station interchange.

History

Template:Stack The station was opened on 20 November 1939, on a new section of deep-level tunnel constructed between Template:Stl and Template:Stl stations when the Metropolitan line's services on its Template:Stl branch were transferred to the Bakerloo line. It is named after a nearby pub built in 1803–4, originally called The Swiss Tavern and later renamed Swiss Cottage.

The new station initially operated as part of a combined station with the Metropolitan line's adjacent sub-surface Swiss Cottage station (platforms 1 and 2 were Metropolitan line and 3 and 4 were Bakerloo line), but the Metropolitan line station was closed on 17 August 1940. The Bakerloo line station was subsequently transferred (along with St John's Wood and the rest of the Stanmore branch) to the Jubilee line when it opened on 1 May 1979.

The station was used extensively during The Blitz of World War II as an air raid shelter.<ref name="wartimecamden">Template:Cite book</ref>