Edgware Road | |
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Location of Edgware Road in Central London
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Location | Edgware Road |
Local authority | City of Westminster |
Managed by | London Underground |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Fare zone | 1 |
London Underground annual entry and exit | |
2012 | 4.43 million |
2013 | 0.00 million |
2014 | 4.26 million |
2015 | 4.50 million |
Key dates | |
1907 | Opened as terminus (BS&WR) |
1913 | Became through station |
Other information | |
Lists of stations | |
WGS84 | 51°31′13″N 0°10′13″W / 51.520278°N 0.170278°WCoordinates: 51°31′13″N 0°10′13″W / 51.520278°N 0.170278°W |
Edgware Road is a London Underground station on the Bakerloo line, located in the City of Westminster. It is between Paddington and Marylebone stations on the line and falls within Travelcard zone 1. The station is located on the north-east corner of the junction of Edgware Road, Harrow Road and Marylebone Road. It is adjacent to the Marylebone flyover.
A separate station of the same name but served by the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines is nearby, to the south of Marylebone Road.
Edgware Road station was opened on 15 June 1907 by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR, now the Bakerloo line) when it extended its line from the temporary northern terminus at Marylebone. In common with other early stations of the lines owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, the station was designed by architect Leslie Green with an ox-blood red glazed terracotta façade. The BS&WR had parliamentary approval to continue the line to Paddington station, but the approved route, which curved under the main line station and ended under the junction of Sussex Gardens and Sussex Place on a south-easterly heading, was not suitable for the company's plan to extend west or north-west from Paddington. The BS&WR chose not to construct the tunnels west of Edgware Road whilst it considered alternatives.