St John's Wood tube station
| St. John's Wood | |
|---|---|
| Location | St John's Wood |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
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St John's Wood tube station is a London Underground station at St John's Wood. It is on the Jubilee Line, between Swiss Cottage and Baker Street. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.
The station was opened on 20 November, 1939 on a new section of deep-level tunnel constructed between Baker Street and Finchley Road when the Metropolitan Line's services on its Stanmore branch were transferred to the Bakerloo Line. It was subsequently transferred along with the rest of the Stanmore branch to the Jubilee Line when it opened in 1979.
With the opening of St. John's Wood station, two nearby stations on the Metropolitan Line were closed. These were Lord's (which had originally been opened in 1868 as St. John's Wood Road) and Marlborough Road.
The station building is located on the corner of Acacia Road and Wellington Road and tube maps from early 1939 indicate that it was originally to be given the name Acacia. This station is the nearest one to Lord's Cricket Ground and Abbey Road Studios.
Trivia
In recent years, the station has achieved a small amount of notoriety due to it being the only London Underground station that has no letters in common with the word 'mackerel', a fact that has frequently appeared in quizzes since the fact was inexplicably publicized. The word 'mackerel' is by no means unique in this feat, however, as several hundred words ('algebra', 'blackberry', 'paperclip'...) satisfy the same property of having letters in common with all stations except St John's Wood. Furthermore, St John's Wood is not unique in being able to satisfy such a restriction, and there are at least 84 stations for which words exist that have no letters in common with exactly one station (for example 'wavelength' and Oxford Circus; 'photocopying' and Russell Square). For more, see [1]
External links
London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
