Bakerloo
The Bakerloo Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.
Proper noun
- The Bakerloo Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.
- It was the Evening News, I know, which had a competition for naming one of the Tube lines. Hence our Bakerloo. - 1945 July and August, John Gibbons, “Thirty Years of The Railway Magazine”, in Railway Magazine, page 228:
Origin
Blend of Baker Street + Waterloo.