Waterloo tube station

Waterloo
265px Jubilee line platforms
Waterloo Location of Waterloo in Central London
Location	South Bank
Local authority	London Borough of Lambeth
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	London Underground
Number of platforms	8
Accessible	Yes (Jubilee line and southbound Bakerloo line only)
Fare zone	1
OSI	Waterloo Waterloo East London Eye Pier
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	84.12 million
2012	88.16 million
2013	89.40 million
2014	91.49 million
Railway companies
Original company	Waterloo & City Railway
Key dates
1898 (1898)	W&CR opened station
1906	BS&WR started
1926	CCH&R started
1999	Jubilee line started
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
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Waterloo is a London Underground station located within the Waterloo station complex that incorporates both the tube station and the main line railway station. It is the third busiest station on the Underground network with over 91 million passenger entries and exits in 2014, and it is served by four lines: the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and Waterloo & City lines.

The station is situated in fare zone 1 and is located near the South Bank of the River Thames, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It's within walking distance to the London Eye.

History

The first Underground station at Waterloo was opened on 8 August 1898 by the Waterloo & City Railway (W&CR), a subsidiary of the owners of the main line station, the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR). The W&CR, nicknamed "The Drain", achieved in a limited way the L&SWR's original plan of taking its tracks the short distance north-east into the City of London.

On 10 March 1906, the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR, now the Bakerloo line) was opened. On 13 September 1926, the extension of the Hampstead & Highgate line (as the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line was then known) was opened from Embankment to the existing City & South London Railway station Kennington with a new station at Waterloo.

As a subsidiary of the L&SWR and its successor, the Southern Railway, the W&CR was not a part of the London Underground system. Following nationalisation of the main line railway companies in 1948, it became part of British Railways (later British Rail).

In March 1965, a British Rail and London Transport joint planning committee published "A Railway Plan for London" that included a recommendation to revive a plan from the 1900s for an extension of the Piccadilly line's Aldwych branch to Waterloo. London Transport had already sought parliamentary approval to construct tunnels from Aldwych to Waterloo in November 1964, and in August 1965, parliamentary powers were granted. Detailed planning took place, although public spending cuts led to postponement of the scheme in 1967 before tenders were invited.

Following a period of closure during 1993 when the Waterloo & City line was converted to use the four rail electrical system of the London Underground, the ownership of the line was transferred to the Underground on 1 April 1994. Due to an Easter shut-down, the first Underground service on the line was on 5 April 1994.

On 24 September 1999, the Jubilee line station was opened as part of the Jubilee Line Extension. The station was temporarily the western terminus of the extension running from Stratford in east London, before the final section to link the extension to the original line was opened between Waterloo and Green Park on 20 November 1999. The Jubilee line platforms are at the opposite end of the site from those of the Bakerloo and Northern lines, but the two ends are connected by a 140-metre (460 ft) moving walkway link (one of only two on the Underground; the other gives access to the Waterloo & City line platform at Bank station).

Connections

The station is served by London Buses routes 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 211, 243, 341, 381, 507, 521, RV1 and X68 and night routes N1, N68, N76, N171, N20, N343 and N381.

See also

• Waterloo Underground Depot
• List of London Underground stations

External links

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Baker Street & Waterloo Railway York Road entrance, 1907
  • Bakerloo line platform, 1923
  • Concourse entrance, 1957
  • York Road entrance, 1962

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Embankment towards Harrow & Wealdstone		Bakerloo line		Lambeth North towards Elephant & Castle
Westminster towards Stanmore		Jubilee line		Southwark towards Stratford
Embankment towards Edgware, Mill Hill East, or High Barnet (via Charing Cross)		Northern line Charing Cross branch		Kennington towards Morden or Kennington
Terminus		Waterloo & City line		Bank Terminus
	Abandoned Plans
Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Aldwych towards Holborn		Piccadilly line Proposed extension from Aldwych (never constructed)		Terminus