Editing Bakerloo line (section)

===Camberwell extension===
{{Main|Bakerloo line extension#Historical extension proposals}}
An extension at the southern end of the line to [[Camberwell]] and [[Denmark Hill]] was proposed and approved in 1931 as part of the ''London Electric Metropolitan District and Central London Railway Companies (Works) Act, 1931''.<ref name=Gazette_1>{{London Gazette |issue=33699 |pages=1809–1811 |date=17 March 1931}}</ref><ref name=Gazette_2>{{London Gazette |issue=33761 |page=6462 |date=9 October 1931}}</ref> In April 1937, the estimated cost of the proposed extension was £5,000,000 (approximately £{{Formatprice|{{Inflation|UK-GDP|5000000|1937}}|0}} today){{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}} and the [[London Passenger Transport Board]] announced that, due to rising materials prices, the extension had been postponed until the Board's finances improved.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rising Cost of Steel - London Transport Economics - Extensions Delayed |date=10 April 1937 |newspaper=[[The Times]] |page=14 |location=London}}</ref> Apart from the extension of the sidings south of [[Elephant & Castle tube station|Elephant & Castle]], no work on the extension took place before the [[Second World War]], but the powers were renewed by the government in 1947 under the ''Special Enactments (Extension of Time) Act, 1940''.<ref name=Gazett_3>{{London Gazette |issue=38145 |page=5876 |date=12 December 1947}}</ref> A projected extension as far as [[Camberwell]] was shown on a 1949 edition of the Underground map but no further work was done.<ref name="1949map">{{cite web |title=London Tube Map |url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1949.html |url-status=dead |date=June 1949 |access-date=13 January 2008 |publisher=London Transport |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125074800/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1949.html |archive-date=25 January 2008 }}</ref> The train describers at [[Warwick Avenue tube station|Warwick Avenue]] station showed ''Camberwell'' as a destination until the 1990s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Garland |first=Ken |title=Mr Beck's Underground Map |publisher=Capital Transport |year=1994 |page=41 |isbn=978-1-85414-168-2}}</ref> Further extensions of the line were considered, south to Peckham Rye in the 1970s, and east to [[London Docklands]] and [[Canary Wharf]] in the 1980s. Neither proposal was proceeded with.<ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine |last=Roberts|first=Jonathan|date=December 2011|title=Extending the Bakerloo - Tube line could reach Hayes|pages=56–59 |magazine=Modern Railways }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Roberts|first=Jonathan|date=13 September 2011|title=Reports of Society Meetings - Beyond the Elephant|url=https://www.lurs.org.uk/articles12_htm_files/2012%2003%20reports%20of%20society%20meetings.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=28 March 2021|website=London Underground Railway Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709021735/http://lurs.org.uk/articles12_htm_files/2012%2003%20reports%20of%20society%20meetings.pdf |archive-date=9 July 2013 }}</ref>