Bakerloo

The Bakerloo Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.

Proper noun

  1. 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.