Talk:Swiss Cottage tube station

Valid
I'd assume a 'valid station' is one that http://www.tfl.gov.uk uses in it's travel directions. Maybe that's how we should clarify it? Aapter (talk) 01:32, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * By "valid station", I believe that you mean "valid connection". See http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/67647/response/172834/attach/3/OSI%20Report%20May2011FR%20V2%2017012011.xls where neither Swiss Cottage nor South Hampstead are listed; compare Finchley Road, which on row 27 is listed as a 20-minute interchange with Finchley Road & Frognal. Unfortunately that document can't be used as a reference, because it doesn't explicitly state that Swiss Cottage does not interchange with South Hampstead (a list of positives does not imply that omissions from that list are necessarily negatives). -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:58, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Merge from Swiss Cottage (Metropolitan line) tube station
I suggest that Swiss Cottage (Metropolitan line) tube station is merged with this article.

My reasoning is that when the Bakerloo station was built in the 1930s as an extension of this one; an map on page 53 of Simpson (2003) shows a subway under Finchley Road connecting the Met ticket office with a larger ticket office over the Bakerloo tube platforms; the article iself says that The new station initially operated as part of a combined station with the Metropolitan Line's adjacent sub-surface Swiss Cottage station (platforms 1 and 2 were Metropolitan Line and 3 and 4 were Bakerloo Line). Edgepedia (talk) 19:07, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The two stations were open simultaneously for just nine months - 20 Nov 1939-17 Aug 1940. The Bakerloo station was always intended as a replacement for, not a supplement to, the Met station. Besides, as I stated at Talk:Metropolitan Railway, I don't trust Simpson to be a reliable source. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:03, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Simpson's reproducing a map from the Railway gazette (undated unfortunately) - it's not one he's drawn himself. The map labels two booking offices as the existing Met Station and the Bakerloo Station, but it's one complex; you can get enter the old Met station ticket office and via some steps and a subway get to the Bakerloo station without exiting (or passing any exits - the subway wasn't public). This looks to me like when Westminster got the Jubliee line station. Edgepedia (talk) 06:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC)