Swiss Cottage tube station (1868-1940)
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Station on a 1915 Ordnance Survey map
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 Swiss Cottage
Location of Swiss Cottage in Greater London
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| Location | Swiss Cottage |
| Owner | Metropolitan Railway |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
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| 13 April 1868 | Opened |
| 18 August 1940 | Closed |
| Replaced by | Swiss Cottage |
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| WGS84 | Coordinates: 51°32′37″N 0°10′36″W / 51.54361°N 0.17667°W |
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Swiss Cottage is a disused London Underground station in Swiss Cottage, northwest London. It was opened in 1868 as the northern terminus of the Metropolitan and St. John's Wood Railway, the first northward branch extension from Baker Street of the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan line). Starting in 1879, the line was extended from here to Watford, Amersham, Chesham and Uxbridge.
Subsequent to the opening of a new Swiss Cottage station next door, which was served initially by the Bakerloo line and is now on the Jubilee line, this Metropolitan line Swiss Cottage station was closed in 1940.
The Metropolitan Railway opened Swiss Cottage on 13 April 1868 as the northern terminus of a new branch line, the Metropolitan and St. John's Wood Railway.
On 26 April 1868, two trains collided head-on at the station. This was the result of a signaller's error, which caused an arriving train to be misrouted to the platform where another train stood awaiting departure. Three people were injured.
In the 1920s the Metropolitan Railway demolished the street-level station building on the west side of Finchley Road, and replaced it with a shopping arcade and three entrances down to the station. The structure was built to the designs of C. W. Clark.
By 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. To ease this congestion, a new section of deep-level tunnel was constructed between Finchley Road station and the Bakerloo line tunnels at Baker Street. The Metropolitan line's Stanmore branch services were then transferred to the Bakerloo line, with effect from 20 November 1939, and diverted to run into Baker Street in the new tunnels, thus reducing the number of trains using the Metropolitan line's tracks.
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