Swiss Cottage is a disused London Underground station in Swiss Cottage, north-west London. It was opened in 1868 as the northern terminus of the Metropolitan and St. John's Wood Railway (M&StJWR), the first northward branch extension from Baker Street of the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan line). Subsequent to the opening of a new Swiss Cottage station, which was served initially by the Bakerloo line and is now on the Jubilee line, this Metropolitan line Swiss Cottage station was closed in 1940. History The M&StJWR was a separately promoted railway partly funded and operated by the Metropolitan Railway (MR). The line north from the MR's station at Baker Street was approved in 1864 and was to continue to a station next to the London and North Western Railway's Finchley Road station (now Finchley Road and Frognal). Financial difficulties meant the scope of the line was reduced to a single track line and only progressed as far as Swiss Cottage, which opened with the line on 13 April 1868. On 26 April 1868, two trains collided head-on at the station. This was the result of a signaller's error, which caused an arriving train to be misrouted to the platform where another train stood awaiting departure. Three people were injured. In 1873, the M&StJWR was authorised to extend its railway to Kingsbury and to add a second track between Swiss Cottage and Baker Street. The first extension to West Hampstead opened on 30 June 1879 as an interim single track shuttle service from Swiss Cottage before works to Willesden Green were completed and opened on 24 November 1879. The MR took control of the M&StJWR on 1 April 1882. The line was subsequently extended in stages to reach Watford, Aylesbury, Chesham and Uxbridge. In the 1920s, the MR demolished the street-level station building on the west side of Finchley Road, and replaced it with a shopping arcade and three entrances down to the station. The structure was built to the designs of C. W. Clark. By the mid-1930s, the Metropolitan line was suffering congestion at the south end of its main route, where trains from its many branches were struggling to share the limited capacity of its tracks between Finchley Road and Baker Street. To ease this congestion, a new section of deep-level tunnel was constructed between Finchley Road station and the Bakerloo line tunnels at Baker Street. The Metropolitan line's Stanmore