Bakerloo line extension London has no immediate rail or tube links: the nearest stations are , , , and . Before the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (now the Bakerloo line) opened between Baker Street and Elephant & Castle in 1906, several alternative schemes were proposed for extending the line at both ends. One failed scheme, the New Cross & Waterloo Railway Bill of 1898, had proposed the construction of a line as far south as , but it was not considered by parliament before it was dropped. The possibility of building a line through Camberwell first emerged in 1913, when the Lord
Bakerloo line to Watford in 1915, it acquired an interchange at Harrow & Wealdstone with another route to Stanmore, the Stanmore branch line. This branch line was operated by the LNWR and terminated at a separate Stanmore station (later renamed ""). It was closed in 1964, partly due to the success of the rival Metropolitan/Bakerloo Underground line to Stanmore. An extension at the southern end of the line to Camberwell and Denmark Hill was proposed and approved in 1931 as part of the "London Electric Metropolitan District and Central London Railway Companies (Works) Act, 1931". In April 1937, the estimated cost of