Waterloo tube station

Waterloo

Entrance to Jubilee line from National Rail station
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	(Jubilee line only)[1]
Fare zone	1
OSI	Waterloo NR [2] Waterloo East
London Underground annual entry and exit
2008	77.200 million[3]
2009	75.957 million[4]
2010	81.570 million[5]
2011	84.120 million[6]
2012	88.16 million[6]
1898 (1898)	W&CR opened station
1906	BS&WR started
1926	Northern Line started
1999	Jubilee Line started
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°30′09″N 0°06′47″W / 51.5025°N 0.1130°W / 51.5025; -0.1130

Waterloo tube station is a London Underground station located at Waterloo station. It is the busiest station on the network^[7] and is served by the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and the Waterloo & City lines. The station is in Travelcard Zone 1.

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).^[8] The W&CR, nicknamed "the Drain",^[9] 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.^[8] 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.^[8]

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 nationalization of the main line railway companies in 1948, it became part of British Railways (later British Rail). Following a period of closure during 1993 when the line was converted to use the four rail electrical system of the London Underground, the ownership of Waterloo & City line was transferred to the Underground on 1 April 1994.^[10] Due to an Easter shut-down, the first London Underground service on the line was on 5 April 1994.^[8]

On 24 September 1999, the Jubilee line station was opened as part of the Jubilee Line Extension.^[8] 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.^[8] The Jubilee 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).

Transport connections

London bus route 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 211, 243, 341, 381, 507, 521, RV1, X68 and night bus route N1, N68, N76, N171, N343 and N381 all serve the station and its surrounding areas.

Gallery

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  Northern line northbound platform looking south

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  Jubilee Line westbound platform looking east

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  Travelator between Jubilee and Bakerloo/Northern Line platforms

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Waterloo tube station.

• 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

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