Contextualisation: Investigating Maida Vale, and its Bakerloo line

- Baker Street & Waterloo Railway = Baker Loo (TfL Museum)
- MV opened in 1915, as first Underground station to have an all female workforce (TfL.gov)
- Maintained its original architecture by Leslie Green (terracotta tiles, mosaic, etc.) (TfL Museum)
- Sounds of MV as a direct result of its architecture (original tunnel material; rail beds etc.) (TfL.gov; TfL Museum)
- Money as a factor for loudness (Sadiq Khan)



Links to sources
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/london-underground-reason-behind-tubes-24708142
https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/stories/transport/bakerloo-line
https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-60368
https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-86699
https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-55000
Final video to be uploaded below.
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