Swiss Cottage (Metropolitan Line) tube station
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| Swiss Cottage | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Swiss Cottage |
| History | |
| Opened by | Metropolitan Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Key dates | Opened 1868 Closed 1940 |
| Replaced by | Swiss Cottage |
Swiss Cottage is a disused London Underground station. It was opened in 1868 as the northern terminus of the Metropolitan & St. John's Wood Railway, the first northward branch extension from Baker Street of the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan Line). From here the line was (starting in 1879) later extended north into Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire reaching Watford, Aylesbury, Chesham and Uxbridge.
In the mid 1930s the Metropolitan line was suffering congestion at the south end of its main route where trains from its many branches were struggling to share the limited capacity of its tracks between Finchley Road and Baker Street stations. To ease this congestion a new section of deep-level tunnel was constructed between Finchley Road and the Bakerloo line tunnels at Baker Street station. The Metropolitan line's Stanmore branch services were then transferred to the Bakerloo line on 20 November 1939 and diverted to run into Baker Street in the new tunnels, thus reducing the number of trains using the Metropolitan lines tracks.
With the new deep tunnel route a new Swiss Cottage Bakerloo line station was opened adjacent to the existing Metropolitan line's station and, for a time, these operated as a single station (platforms 1 and 2 were Metropolitan line, platforms 3 and 4 were Bakerloo line). This arrangement was shortlived, however, and the Metropolitan Line station was closed on 17 August 1940.
[edit] See also
Other Metropolitan Line stations closed with the opening of the deep tunnel section:
[edit] External links
London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive Station building in 1933 after rebuilding.de:Swiss Cottage (Metropolitan Line)
