Waterloo East railway station

Not to be confused with London Waterloo station.

Waterloo East
London Waterloo East
Waterloo East viewed from the London Eye
Location	South Bank
Local authority	London Borough of Lambeth
Grid reference	TQ313800
Managed by	Southeastern
Owner	Network Rail
Station code(s)	WAE
DfT category	B
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	1
OSI	Waterloo (main line) Waterloo (Underground) Embankment Southwark
National Rail annual entry and exit
– interchange	0.812 million
2007–08	6.537 million
2008–09	6.765 million
– interchange	0.891 million
2010–11	6.638 million
– interchange	0.891 million
2011–12	6.656 million
2012–13	6.794 million
– interchange	1.510 million
Railway companies
Original company	South Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	South Eastern and Chatham Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1 January 1869 (1869-01-01)	Opened as Waterloo Junction
7 July 1935	Renamed Waterloo
2 May 1977	Renamed Waterloo East
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
London transport portal

Waterloo East, also known as London Waterloo East, is a railway station in central London on the line from Charing Cross through London Bridge towards Kent, in the southeast of England. Although Waterloo East is a through-station, it is classed for ticketing purposes as a central London terminus. Services through the station are operated by Southeastern and it is situated within fare zone 1.

An elevated walkway across Waterloo Road connects it to the larger Waterloo station and provides the main access. The eastern ends of Waterloo East's platforms provide pedestrian connection to Southwark station which is served by London Underground's Jubilee line; at street level there is a modest entrance in Sandell Street. Connections with the Underground's Bakerloo, Northern and Waterloo & City lines are available at Waterloo tube station. There is no station building; the ticket office of the main station serves it, though there are ticket machines at the eastern end of the walkway.

The four platforms at Waterloo East are lettered rather than numbered to ensure that staff who work at both Waterloo East and the adjoining Waterloo station, which is managed and branded separately and features numbered platforms, do not confuse the platforms at the two stations. This stratagem is also used for the Thameslink platforms at St. Pancras International and their predecessors at King's Cross Thameslink, as well as at New Cross. Ticket barriers have been installed at the Sandell Street and Southwark station entrances, and also at the main entrance from Waterloo station following the completion of the retail balcony in 2012.

History

A 1910 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Waterloo - note the connecting line between Waterloo and Waterloo East.

The South Eastern Railway opened it as Waterloo Junction in January 1869 to replace Blackfriars Road station which was slightly to the east. The Southern Railway renamed it Waterloo (also known as Waterloo Eastern) in July 1935 and it took its present name in May 1977.

Until 1911 a rail connection ran across the concourse of the main station. This saw little service, although H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds describes its use to convey troop trains to the Martian landing site. The bridge which carried the line over Waterloo Road subsequently accommodated the pedestrian walkway between the two stations until replaced by the current high level covered walkway. The old bridge remains and is now used for storage.

Services

Platform A view towards the Shard

All "up" trains run to Charing Cross only, and depart from platforms B and D. All "down" trains run from platforms A and C. The typical off-peak service is:

• 14 trains per hour (tph) Charing Cross
• 2 trains per hour tph Dartford via Bexleyheath
• 2 tph Gravesend via Sidcup
• 2 tph Gillingham via Lewisham and Woolwich Arsenal
• 2 tph Hayes avoiding Lewisham
• 2 tph Sevenoaks via Orpington
• 2 tph Hastings via Tunbridge Wells
• 1 tph Dover via Ashford International
• 1 tph Ramsgate via Ashford International and Canterbury West

Southern also used to operate services at this station, but these were withdrawn in 2009 due to problems with line capacity on the South Eastern Main Line.

Entrance to Waterloo East from Waterloo station prior to the completion of the retail balcony in 2012.

Escalators leading to Waterloo East station from Southwark tube station.

Mainline railways around the South Bank
South West Main Line to Weymouth Hungerford Bridge over River Thames Waterloo Charing Cross Waterloo East ( 1864– 1868 ) Blackfriars Elephant & Castle Blackfriars Holborn Viaduct–Herne Hill line to Herne Hill (and e.g. to Sutton) Snow Hill tunnel/City Widened Lines to St Pancras (and to MML & ECML) ( 1864– 1885 ) Blackfriars Bridge City Thameslink Brighton Main Line to Brighton London Bridge Cannon Street South Eastern Main Line to SE London and Kent River Thames

Connections

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, N343 and N381 serve the station.

External links

• Train times and station information for Waterloo East railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
London Charing Cross		Southeastern South Eastern Main Line		London Bridge