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=== Sub-surface platforms ===
[[File:BakerStTilework fxcr wb.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Unique tile-work in this station, commemorates the fictional [[Sherlock Holmes]]' association with Baker Street]]
Of the MR's original stations, now the Circle and Hammersmith & City line platforms five and six are the best preserved dating from the station's opening in 1863. Plaques of the Metropolitan Railway's coat of arms along the platform and old plans and photographs depict the station which has changed remarkably little in over a hundred and fifty years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://150greatthingsabouttheunderground.com/2013/01/06/76-the-original-platforms-at-baker-street/|title=76. The original platforms at Baker Street|last=Jones|first=Ian|date=6 January 2013|work=150 Great Things About the Underground|access-date=10 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410085343/http://150greatthingsabouttheunderground.com/2013/01/06/76-the-original-platforms-at-baker-street/|archive-date=10 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Restoration work in the 1980s on the oldest portions of Baker Street station brought it back to something similar to its 1863 appearance.
The Metropolitan line's platforms one to four were largely the result of the station's rebuild in the 1920s to cater for the increase in traffic on its outer suburban routes. Today the basic layout remains the same with platforms two and three being through tracks for City services to Aldgate from Amersham, Chesham and Uxbridge flanked by terminal platforms one and four which are the domain of services to and from Watford. The northern end of the platforms is in a cutting being surrounded by Chiltern Court and Selbie House the latter of which houses Baker Street control centre responsible for signalling the Metropolitan line from Preston Road to Aldgate, as well as the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines between Baker Street and Aldgate. The southern end of the platforms are situated in a cut and cover tunnel which runs towards Great Portland Street. All Metropolitan line platforms can function as terminating tracks however under normal circumstance only dead ended platforms one and four are used as such.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/llangollen_signalman/albums/72157632671559016|title=Baker Street Control Room|website=Flickr|language=en-us|access-date=5 April 2017|date=November 2009}}</ref>
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*[[Madame Tussauds]]
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*[[Statue of Sherlock Holmes, London]]<ref name="reid19990922">{{Cite news |last=Reid |first=T.R. |author-link=T.R. Reid |date=22 September 1999 |title= Sherlock Holmes honored with statue near fictional London home |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xA8hAAAAIBAJ&pg=2790,5166715&dq=statue+sherlock-holmes+london&hl=en |access-date=6 January 2013 |work=The Day |location= New London, CT |pages=A4 |agency=The Washington Post |via=Google News}}</ref>
== In popular culture ==
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