Bakerloo en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /beɪkəˈluː/ (UK)
- bā-kər-lo͞oʹ (US)
- /beɪkɚˈlu/ (US)
Etymology
Blend of Baker Street + Waterloo.
Meanings
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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: