• the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?

Facts on topics related to Baker Street and Waterloo Railway

London Underground

• 16 tunnels, many for tube lines, run beneath London's River Thames?
• Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to board the Underground shortly before the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
• Tom Sidwell once got lost on the London Underground, missed the start of that day's cricket match, and was given out?
• Waddesdon Road railway station generated only £4 per year in passenger revenue before being taken over by the London Underground?
• Westcott railway station was a part of the London Underground, despite being more than 40 miles from central London?
• the London Underground's Baker Street and Waterloo Railway was built so Londoners could get to cricket matches?
• the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, one of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by American Charles Yerkes?
• the Dollis Brook Viaduct is the highest point on both the Northern Line and the London Underground above ground level, reaching 60 feet (18 m) in height?
• the history of rapid transit began when the London Underground started operations in 1863?

London Paddington station

• the 14.44-mile (23.2 km) Stert and Westbury Railway shortened the distance from London Paddington station to Weymouth by 14.24 miles (22.9 km)?
• the Castle Cary Cut-Off reduced the 325½ mile distance between London Paddington and Penzance railway stations by 20¼ miles?