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
Marlborough Road tube station a steak restaurant—were included in "Metro-Land", a 1973 documentary presented by John Betjeman. The building housed a Chinese restaurant until 2009, and now contains a substation installed as part of the power upgrade programme to support the introduction of S stock on the Metropolitan line. Marlborough Road itself was renamed Marlborough Place in the 1950s. Other Metropolitan line stations that closed with the opening of the new Bakerloo tunnels: Marlborough Road tube station Marlborough Road (sometimes shortened to Marlboro Road) is a disused London Underground station in St John's Wood, north-west London. It opened in April 1868 on the Metropolitan