Great Central Railway steaming back to Marylebone Station London | Classic VHS Video | Trains
Borderlands Line Borderlands Line
1.07K subscribers
48,846 views
0

 Published On Mar 12, 2024

Part of the Steam Era VHS tapes. Volume 3 focuses on the last major London Terminus to be built, Marylebone of the Great Central Railway. Featuring some archive footage from the last days in the 60s and the revival period in the mid 80s with Steam specials with Sir Nigel Gresley, Duchess of Hamilton and Clan Line to name a few.

Sir Nigel Gresley, Flying Scotsman, Duchess of Hamilton, Marylebone, VHS, Clan Line, Great Central Railway, London, Sir Lamiel, Green Arrow, Mallard, Post Office.

Marylebone station is a Central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the Marylebone area of the City of Westminster. On the National Rail network, it is also known as London Marylebone and is the southern terminus of the Chiltern Main Line to Birmingham. An accompanying Underground station is on the Bakerloo line, sited between Edgware Road and Baker Street in Transport for London's fare zone 1.

The station opened on 15 March 1899 as the London terminus of the Great Central Main Line (GCML), the last major railway to open in Britain for 100 years, linking the capital to the cities of Leicester, Sheffield and Manchester. Marylebone was the last of London's main line termini to be built and is one of the smallest, opening with half of the platforms originally planned. There has been an interchange with the Bakerloo line since 1907, but not with any other lines.

Traffic declined at Marylebone station from the mid-20th century, particularly after the GCML closed. By the 1980s, it was threatened with closure, but was reprieved because of commuter traffic on the London to Aylesbury Line (a remaining part of the GCML) and from High Wycombe. In 1993, the station found a new role as the terminus of the Chiltern Main Line. Following the privatisation of British Rail, the station was expanded with two additional platforms in 2006 and improved services to Birmingham Snow Hill. In 2015, services began between Marylebone and Oxford Parkway, via a new chord connecting the main line to the Oxford to Bicester Line and an extension to Oxford following in 2016. As of 2020, it is the only main London terminus to host only diesel trains, as none of the National Rail lines into it are electrified.

Marylebone is one of the squares on the British Monopoly board and is popular for filming because of its relative quietness compared to other London termini.

Thank you for watching @BorderlandsLine. Please like, comment, share and subscribe today.

show more

Share/Embed