Baker Street. Deep level tube. Pre-1979

How about the Northern Line at Kennington and Camden Town?
Check out Wikapedia as a starting point.

That's a very informative read, thanks for posting it.

As far as existing Bakerloo line passengers are concerned it probably would have been much better if the Metropolitan's original plan for a deep level link between Edgware Road and the Kilburn area had been realised. This would have served new districts (including part of the A5 Edgware Road) that even now are unserved.

The new line was scuppered because the Government introduced new 'emergency evacuation' regulations requiring that all trains which travel through deep level tube train tunnels can be walked through and have end doors - this being something that would have required the Met to replace many trains in its fleet, which at that time solely comprised slam door full-width compartment rolling stock.

Had the London Transport Passenger Board (LTPB) built this link it could have used its brand new sliding door O or P stock trains on this route and perhaps dedicated the new link to trains serving Stanmore. Maybe the reason why the LTPB did not progress with this route is because it thought that there was insufficient track capacity east of Edgware Road?


More about this can be read at this Wikipedia link
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgware_Road_Tube_schemes#Metropolitan_Railway

The page also has a map, which can also be seen at this link
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metropolitan_relief_line.svg

The map does not show it but there were going to be three intermediate stations - at Quex Road, Kilburn Park Road and Clifton Road

Is this the same regulation that required a side walkway in all new Tube tunnels, ie for the Jubilee Line Extension? If so, what year was the Tube side walkway mandated? 1990s sometime but can't find the reference.

During the emergency exercise prior to the opening of the DLR Stratford International extension we were evacuated from the train onto the side walkway rather than the four-foot. OK this was DLR, and all their tunnels have walkways, but I don't understand why you would build a walkway and not use it? Espcially as it's much easier and safer to walk on a smooth concrete path than along an uneven, crowded four-foot.

oops, I stand corrected.

Despite its name the policies of the new body suggest that was really a takeover by the UndergrounD train and motor bus 'Combine' of its former commercial competitors.


btw, at the time of privatisation in the 1990's the Government was considering called London's new transport authority something like the London Regional Transport Authority with an abbreviation of LRTA.

As a member of the Light Rail Transit Association I got to hear about this and that during the consultation process the Government was informed of the prior existence of a British organisation which is already known as the LRTA plus the likely confusion should it also be adopted in the way they were considering. Hence we ended up with TfL - Transport For London, which I think is also easier to say and write! 

The full chronology of pan-London public transport organisations is:
London Passenger Transport Board (1933-1948)
London Transport Executive (1948-1962)
London Transport Board (1963-1969)
London Transport Executive (GLC) (1970-1984)
London Regional Transport (1984-2000)
Transport for London (2000-present)

During the early years of LRT the Annual Reports* and other official documents usually stated “LRT, herewith referred to as ‘the Corporation’”.

* - with the hideous non-Johnston, non-roundel logo, which thankfully was never applied to vehicles.