London Underground - Jubilee Line
Created | Updated Jul 1, 2009
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The Jubilee line originally ran from Baker Street, passing through Green Park station and terminating at Charing Cross, with the line to Stanmore being taken over from the Bakerloo line. The Jubilee line was extended in 1999, and now continues from Green Park to Westminster, runs along the Thames, and then turns north towards to reach its current terminus at Stratford. Like some others, the map on the tunnel wall near the exit of the northbound Northern line at Waterloo station has been clumsily corrected to hide the fact that the Jubilee line once called at Charing Cross.
Stanmore
Part of the Metropolitan Railway extension from Wembley Park that later became part of the Bakerloo Line before being adopted by the Jubilee Line. Opened in 1932, it was designed by architect Charles W Clark in a traditional building style in order to fit in with the relatively rural surroundings of the extension. The station was built using red brick walls, a central gable over the station entrance, dormer windows and a tiled roof with chimney stacks, while the booking office was decorated with cream and dark turquoise tiles. Either side of the entrance were shops.
Canons Park
Another of Charles W Clark's designs, Canons Park was a little more modernistic than the others on the extension, including a canopy above the entrance, a flatter roof, and horizontal stripes added to provide a contrasting brick colour running around the first storey of the building.
Queensbury
Kingsbury
Wembley Park to Baker Street
The line then runs alongside the Metropolitan line, with the Jubilee line serving nall the stations between Wembley Park and Baker Street, and the Metropolitan line running straight from Wembley Park to Finchley Road, and then on to Baker Street.
Wembley Park
See the Metropolitan Line: East of Harrow section of this guide.
Neasden
Dollis Hill
Willesden Green
Rebuilt in 1925 to Charles W Clark's designs, the frontage was typical of the Metropolitan Railway at the time: light brown faience (tin-glazed earthenware) was used to simulate stonework, with the company name and station in green lettering in a frieze across the front. Green and blue mosaic tiles covered much of the station interiors.
Kilburn
West Hampstead
Finchley Road
See the Metropolitan Line: East of Harrow section of this guide.
Swiss Cottage
St John's Wood
The only station on the underground not to contain one or more letters from the word 'mackerel'.
Baker Street
See the Bakerloo Line section of this guide.
Bond Street
Crossrail would call here if built.
Green Park
See the Victoria Line section of this guide.
Westminster
This station also serves the District and Circle lines, and is home to the Underground's shortest lift shaft at only 2.5 metres, or 8 feet. Meanwhile, the Jubilee line is accessed via three sequential banks of escalators, with the concourse down to the lower levels being designed to maximise use of natural light.
Waterloo
See the Northern Line: Edgware and Charing Cross Branches section of this guide.
Southwark
Change here for Waterloo East mainline station.
London Bridge
See the Northern Line: High Barnet and Bank Branches section of this guide.
Bermondsey
Canada Water
See the East London Line section of this guide.