How old is jubilee line

This line would go on to form the 'backbone' of the Jubilee line. In , a 'road deck' was installed over Oxford Street, meaning that traffic could continue to run, while the new Bond Street station was dug out beneath. An unfinished Jubilee line platform at Charing Cross in The line ran through this station until Prince Charles gets to ride a Jubilee line train, a day before the line opens to the public.

Jammy so and so. Plans for a Jubilee line extension — with an additional 11 stations running eastward between Westminster and Stratford — were first mooted while the original line was being built in the s. It wasn't until the late s that the plans were revived, and not until that the extension opened.

Then-prime minister John Major attends a ceremony at Canary Wharf in , marking the start of the Jubilee line extension. Canary Wharf station was designed by Norman Foster, and opened in as part of the Jubilee line extension. Excavation work for the new Westminster Jubilee station, in the mid s.

ES Money. The Escapist. The Reveller. The Optimist. ES Best. ES Mag. In the meantime, pick the anniversary date that fits your opinion about such things. The Jubilee line as we know it today can trace its origins to an extension of the Metropolitan line, which initially ran from Baker Street to Swiss Cottage in April , and was expected to then head north-eastwards towards Hampstead. The line was stuck at Swiss Cottage for some years, until it was finally extended north-west to Neasden, with a spur up to Harrow in When it opened, in mostly countryside, Neasden Station was originally called Kingsbury Neasden.

The Met line grew passenger traffic so much that it was facing overloading during peak hours. One of the problems was that Finchley Road station was a bottleneck, so they planned a new railway line running from Kilburn to Edgware Road. In fact, the reason why Edgware Road Station has four platforms — which is today useful for terminating the Circle line — is that it was rebuilt for the planned Met line extension.

The extension was obviously never built, but congestion at Finchely Road was still a major problem. Despite that, the Met line decided to take advantage of urbanisation in the north of Wembley and built a railway up towards Stanmore — calling at Kingsbury Neasden was renamed , Queenbury, Cannons Park and finally Stanmore.

By the mids, congestion was getting worse with all the different services from the North squeezing into the two tunnels at Finchely Road, so it was decided to split the line into two services, the Met and the Bakerloo.

Two new tube tunnels were dug from Baker Street up to Finchley Road, and then the Bakerloo line took over the Met line services up to Stanmore. The main aim being to double the number of tunnels between Baker Street and Finchley Road. Having solved the congestion bottleneck at Finchely Road for the Met line, the Bakerloo line now started to suffer congestion of its own, as its two lines, from Stanmore and Harrow converged at Baker Street.

London Transport started planning new railways in the post-war years, but the Bakerloo was suffering rising levels of congestion, made worse by City firms moving to surviving offices in the West End while the City was rebuilt.