Show Notes
The station with more platforms than any other on the Underground gets a bumper episode with special guest Geoff Marshall.
Baker Street has one of the most fascinating and complex stories of any station on the Underground. It was the flagship station of the Metropolitan Railway, its growth driven by their determination to both carry commuters more efficiently and prove they were a real mainline railway company. Above the platforms the Met built their headquarters decorated with carvings of railway equipment, and the luxurious Chiltern Court apartment block from which daring commando raids were planned during the Second World War.
Deep below ground are the platforms of the Bakerloo and Jubilee lines, decorated with images of the street's famous fictitious resident Sherlock Holmes.
Baker Street station has also been home to London Transport's lost property office, their canteen training centre, and the only newsreel cinema that could be found at a London Underground station.
We also discover the history of the nearby Madame Tussaud's and its now-lost Planetarium.
Joining us for this episode is railway YouTube star Geoff Marshall, with whom we discuss tube stations real and fantastical, podcasting and sharing the positivity of railway enthusiasm.
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