22 Facts About Marylebone station

Marylebone station is a Central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the Marylebone area of the City of Westminster.

An accompanying Underground Marylebone station is on the Bakerloo line between Edgware Road and Baker Street in Transport for London's fare zone 1.

Marylebone station was the last of London's main line termini to be built and is one of the smallest, opening with half of the platforms originally planned.

In 1993 the Marylebone station found a new role as the terminus of the Chiltern Main Line.

Marylebone station is one of the squares on the British Monopoly board, and is popular for filming because of its relative quietness compared to other London termini.

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Main line Marylebone station has six platforms; two built in 1899, two inserted into the former carriage road in the 1980s, and two built in September 2006.

Chiltern Railways operates all services at the Marylebone station, accessing the Chiltern Main Line and London to Aylesbury Line routes which serve High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Bicester, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Solihull, Birmingham Moor Street, Birmingham Snow Hill, and Stourbridge Junction and Kidderminster.

Approach to Marylebone station was the last section of the Great Central Main Line to be built.

The Marylebone station was built on a 51-acre site around Blandford and Harewood Squares, west of Regent's Park.

The line leading to the Marylebone station cut through 70 acres of middle-class housing, including the Eyre Estate in St John's Wood and the area around Lord's, drawing protests and requiring a relocation of the track and Marylebone station facilities.

Low passenger traffic meant Marylebone station was the quietest and most pleasant of London's termini.

The GCR was unhappy about having to use part of the Metropolitan Railway's route to reach Marylebone station, and opened a new line to High Wycombe on 2 April 1906.

The additional suburban services generated traffic for the Marylebone station, which had previously been so empty on occasion that the staff outnumbered passengers.

Great Central Main Line duplicated the route of the Midland Main Line and long-distance trains from Marylebone station were scaled back from 1958, leading to the closure of the Great Central Main Line north of Aylesbury on 4 September 1966 in the Beeching Axe.

Marylebone station was then the terminus for local services to Aylesbury and High Wycombe only, with some services extended to Banbury.

The Marylebone station was transferred from the Western Region to the London Midland Region in 1973.

The run-down lines into Marylebone station were modernised with new signalling and higher line speeds.

The line was restored to double track the same year, and Marylebone station was expanded in 2006 with two extra platforms in Chiltern's Evergreen 2 project.

Marylebone station has direct connections with just a single Tube line, unlike many other London termini such as Euston and Paddington.

Underground Marylebone station was opened on 27 March 1907 by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway under the name "Great Central" .

Present entrance opened on 1 February 1943 following wartime damage to the original Marylebone station building that stood to the west at the junction of Harewood Avenue and Harewood Row and the introduction of the escalators.

Marylebone station is one of four London termini depicted on the British version of the Monopoly board game, along with King's Cross, Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street.