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 Entrance to Jubliee line from National Rail station |
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 Waterloo
Location of Waterloo in Central London |
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| Location | South Bank |
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| 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 |
| Interchange | Waterloo NR [2] Waterloo East |
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| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2007 |  74.844 million[3] |
| 2008 | 77.200 million[3] |
| 2009 |  75.957 million[3] |
| 2010 | 81.570 million[3] |
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| 1898 | W&CR opened station |
| 1906 | BS&WR started |
| 1926 | Northern Line started |
| 1999 | Jubilee Line started |
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| Lists of stations | DLR · Underground · National Rail · Tramlink |
Coordinates: 51°30′09″N 0°06′47″W / 51.5025°N 0.1130°W
Waterloo tube station is a London Underground station located at Waterloo station. It is currently the busiest station on the network[4] and is served by the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and the Waterloo & City lines. The station is in Travelcard Zone 1.
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[edit] 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).[5] The W&CR, nicknamed "the Drain",[6] 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.[5] 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.[5]
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.[7] Due to an Easter shut-down, the first London Underground service on the line was on 5 April 1994.[5]
On 24 September 1999, the Jubilee line station was opened as part of the Jubilee Line Extension.[5] 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.[5] 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).
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 Northern Line platforms
[edit] References
- ^ "Step free Tube Guide". Transport for London. December 2009. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/step-free-tube-guide-map.pdf. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
- ^ "Out of Station Interchanges" (Microsoft Excel). Transport for London. May 2011. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/67647/response/172834/attach/3/OSI%20Report%20May2011FR%20V2%2017012011.xls. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Customer metrics: entries and exits". London Underground performance update. Transport for London. 2003-2010. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/modesoftransport/tube/performance/default.asp?onload=entryexit. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- ^ http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/modesoftransport/tube/performance/default.asp?onload=entryexit
- ^ a b c d e f Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History. Douglas Rose/Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-219-4.
- ^ Wolmar, Christian (2004). "Deep Under London". The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever. Atlantic Books. pp. 146. ISBN 1-84354-023-1.
- ^ "Waterloo & City line, Dates". Clive's Underground Line Guides. http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/waterloo.html#dates. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
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towards Harrow & Wealdstone
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Bakerloo line |
towards Elephant & Castle
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towards Stanmore
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Jubilee line |
towards Stratford
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| Northern line
Charing Cross branch
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towards Morden or Kennington
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| Terminus | Waterloo & City line |
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