Baker Street: The World's First Underground Station

You have done a video on the 1935 & 1938 tube stock, I would like to know what the tube carriages looked like pre 1935. You show an illustration of an early one in this film. Great series & very informative, thanks

Baker Street was the first ever Underground Station.........that is until someone realised they needed a second station for anyone to actually get anywhere

BAKER STREET will always be my favourite because I lived above it as a kid on the 7th Floor in Chiltern Court TV star "Hughie Green" lived there at that time and he had a train layout too!~

How useful is a line with one station???

This is one of my favorite Tube stations!

Oddly, Chicago has "Metra".

“The Metropolitan considers itself a cut above the other underground lines”. Still feels very true today. You can understand why - they were the first.
Great channel, keep them coming.

My favourite station...the smell alone takes me back to being a small child.

You say "and the first station to open on the Metropolitan Railway was Baker Street", but what do you mean by that? Having just one station without somewhere to go would be kind of useless. Or do you mean it was literally the first one to open on 10 January 1863, before the other ones later in the day?

In the immortal words of Paul Merton: “The first station to open on the London Underground was Baker Street, in 1863. What was the point in that? *Where would you go?*”

The Metropolitan bar used to be the the LU recruitment centre. That's where I went to in 89 to sign up to be a guard and do the aptitude tests. I think they moved it mid to late 90's

I always like visiting Baker Street, so much history to see. Knowing it’s background makes using it easier!

I would add loads of bakeries around Baker Street station to give it character!

Outstanding video Jago.

But if it was the first station to open, where did people actually go?

I don't understand why there would be a 'first' station to open, as there is no point in having a station on a railway that has nowhere to go. It's a bit like owning the only fax machine (back in the day) - what's the point if there is no one else who has a fax machine you can send a fax to.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems illogical not to open two stations at the same time.

this is yet another great informative video. Thanks :)

Great video, loved seeing platform 5 for myself yesterday and Chiltern court too. Was half expecting a steam train to turn up at the platform at one point.

And if you had been a LUL employee you would know what other major role the station had before the formation of TFL.

Wait, they opened one station? So you could travel from Baker Street to... Baker Street?

Actually, London was not the first to come up with the concept. While they opened a station first, the first attempt was a Long Island Railroad tunnel below Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn NY. The tunnel began construction in 1844. Parts of the tunnel were opened as early as 1844.

Hi, there are older stations on the underground such as Harrow & Wealdstone ( 1837) built before the underground was thought of and Ealing Broadway ( 1838 ) and many others , not to mention the worlds oldest underwater tunnel, The Thames Tunnel which started to Be built before trains were invented , ie about 1824/25 I think opened 18 years later , am not sure when the underground started using this tunnel, do you know? . Regards JH

My Grandad fred fenton started at Paddington but when the met and gwr parted company he decided to go with the metropolitan and went to Baker Street. Over the years I am not sure what he did there but ended his days as a ticket inspector there retirement in the 50s. He rented a house on the metropolitan estate at Neasden where he brought up the fenton family.

Metroland just makes me think of the indoor theme park we used to have in Gateshead MetroCentre :')

Great video, and informative as ever. Just one question though...
How can Baker Street have been the first underground station to open? If it was solely served by the new fangled Metropolitan Railway, then surely a second station at the other end of the line must have opened simultaneously, otherwise there would be nowhere for the passengers to go to

Happy Birthday, Baker Street station! 160 years old today!🚂

Quite by chance, I'm watching this on 10 January - happy 160th birthday, old girl! Baker Street and the Underground, that is - not Jago. Although...

You have to be sherlock holmes to navigate this station 😵‍💫😵‍💫

the list of pairs of cities; glasgow - moscow and new york - naples, paris-pyongyan all have the same latitude *except for paris and pyongyang*. DAMNIT JAGO

Where did the trains go to if there was only one station open.?

Never realised Baker Street was the very first, thank you.

Great footage ❤

Thanks

We were in London on 4 and 5 July during our two week trip to Paris, and I so much wanted to go see the original platforms at Baker Street, we just ended up running out of time. It'll have to be for our next trip. Cheers from Montreal, QC Canada!

I love the "ligth-eaters" of the platforms, in the past the sun ligth did entrance throught theirs..... It was made with bricks making beautiful archs.... The lightings inside the platforms are beauty too.

Another one of Jago's videos that make me go "hmmm... I really should visit London again one of these days."

If this was the first station, where did it go? Surely you need two stations for a trip. So there must have been two joint first stations.
Otherwise it ran in a loop and people got off where they got on

Interesting video, I went there a lot

My brother wanted the Sherlock Holmes pipe tiles for his bathroom….

How was this station useful before another opened?

Did Stephenson gauge and Brunel gauge trains have the same loading gauge? 🤔

I love Baker Street Station. It's an amazing and unique place in a sea of bland and forgettable stations.

The line opened between Paddington. and Faringdon but Baker Street was the first station built und erground

If Baker Street was the first Underground station to open, how soon did the second station come on line? It must have been crowded down there for a while!

Baker Street ! ... the ... ONLY ... UK , Underground ( subway ) station where you can change from the PINK .. to .. the BROWN ...😝( ? ) .............. Check it out ... all you metro folk ( ? ) ....... DAVE™🛑

Were the steam trains built first or Baker Street was built first?

What did those ventilation shafts look like above ground? Where there grates covering them at street level? It can't have been very pleasant for pedestrians on the Marylebone road.