While it may not be as busy as the likes of London Waterloo and Victoria, Marylebone station connects London to some crucial areas of the country and we would definitely be inconvenienced without it.

A National Rail station, it goes to places like Oxford, Birmingham, Aylesbury, Banbury, Bicester, High Wycombe, Stratford-Upon-Avon and Gerrards Cross.

Many people who live out in the commuter belt use it to travel into London every day, as it allows them to live outside of London if they want to.

But at one time the station almost never came to be.

Today Chiltern trains travel to places like Banbury and Birmingham from Marylebone

Plans for the station date back as far as 1864 when Sir Edward Watkin became chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. He decided the line could be way more lucrative if it had a connection to London.

So planning began for the line but progress was slow. And it nearly didn't happen.

Tickets to a cricket match at Lord's were among the glitzy gifts given to Westminster council officers
Lords is known as the Home of Cricket

All because of a rather popular English sport involving a bat and some wickets.

Essentially loads of people kicked up a fuss saying that the line would have to go through Lord's cricket ground.

Eventually the line was open to passengers in 1899

Located in St John's Wood, right by Marylebone, it's often referred to as the Home of Cricket as many big tournaments take place there.

So, fair enough, people didn't want to lose that.

Today Marylebone is used by commuters and tourists alike

Realising he couldn't talk people round on this, Watkin promised Lords wouldn't be disrupted by the railway and subsequently an act of Parliament was finally passed on 28 March 1893.

The construction itself didn't come without disruption. The station was built on a 51-acre site just west of Regent's Park and it meant 4,000 working class people living Harewood Avenue and Rossmore Road had to be evicted from their homes.

So how did the line avoid Lords?

A cut and cover tunnel was built, also meaning no cricket had to be cancelled during the construction work.

The station opened to coal trains on July 27, 1898 and to passengers on March, 15 1899, becoming the last major railway line to be built into London until HS1 for the Eurostar was finished in 2007.

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