• When it opened in 1906 the line was known as the "Baker Street and Waterloo Railway". The name Bakerloo was coined by Captain GHF Nichols, a columnist for the Evening News, and was adopted officially a few months later.
• The Bakerloo line covers 14.5 miles and serves 25 stations. North of Queen's Park the tracks are shared with the Overground.
• Between 1pm and 10pm on weekdays the busiest station on the Bakerloo line is Oxford Circus. Before 1pm it's Waterloo, and after 10pm it's Piccadilly Circus.
• From its opening until 1917 the Bakerloo line operated with reverse polarity, that is with the outside rail negative and the centre rail positive.
• The Bakerloo line's official colour is Pantone 470.
• The northern termini of the Bakerloo line have been Baker Street (1906-7), Marylebone (1907), Edgware Road (1907-13), Paddington (1913-5), Queen's Park (1915), Willesden Junction (1915-7), Watford Junction (1917-1982), Stanmore (1939-1979), Stonebridge Park (1982-4) and Harrow & Wealdstone (1984-today).
• Bakerloo line trains are the oldest on the tube, dating back to 1972. The seven carriages have a total of 268 passenger seats.
• The novel 253 by Geoff Ryan relates the lives of 252 Bakerloo line passengers (and the driver) as they ride from Embankment to Elephant & Castle... where the driver falls asleep, so it's not exactly a happy ending. Read it here.
• The Bakerloo will be one of the last lines to be upgraded, maybe a decade hence. When that upgrade is finally complete, "average journey times will be reduced by more than two minutes". Whatever that means.
• Three hundred thousand passengers ride the Bakerloo line every weekday. [full line history here]
BAKERLOO: Ten line facts
