Elephant & Castle tube station Elephant & Castle tube station Elephant & Castle is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Southwark in south London. It is on the Bank branch of the Northern line between Kennington and Borough stations, and is the southern terminus of the Bakerloo line, the next station being Lambeth North. The station is in both Travelcard Zones 1 and 2. The Northern line station was opened in 1890 by the City and South London Railway (C&SLR) while the Bakerloo line station was opened sixteen years later by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR). There is out-of-station interchange
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