Waterloo tube station
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| Waterloo Underground | |
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| Location | |
| Place | South Bank |
| Local authority | London Borough of Lambeth |
| Operations | |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Platforms in use | 8 |
| Transport for London | |
| Zone | 1 |
| 2004 annual usage | 68.427 million † |
| 2007 annual usage | 74.844 million † |
| History | |
| 1898 1906 1926 1999 |
W&CR opened station BS&WR started Northern Line started Jubilee Line started |
| Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail |
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| † Data from Transport for London [1] | |
Waterloo tube station is a London Underground station near the Waterloo railway station. It is the second busiest station on the network with 4 lines interchanging, the Bakerloo Line between Lambeth North and Embankment, the Jubilee Line between Westminster and Southwark, the Northern Line between Kennington and Embankment, and the Waterloo & City Line leading to Bank.
The first underground station at Waterloo was opened on 8 August 1898 by the Waterloo & City Railway (W&CR) a subsidiary of the L&SWR. By doing so 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. The Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR, now the Bakerloo Line) started serving Waterloo on 10 March 1906. On 13 September 1926, the extension of the Hampstead and 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.
The Jubilee Line station opened on 20 November 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension project. 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 m (460 ft) moving walkway link - one of only two on the Underground. (The other is at the Waterloo & City Line at Bank.)
| Preceding station |  London Underground |
Following station | ||
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towards Harrow & Wealdstone
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Bakerloo line |
towards Elephant & Castle
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| Northern line |
towards Kennington or Morden
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towards Stanmore
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Jubilee line |
towards Stratford
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| Terminus | Waterloo & City line |
Terminus
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- Waterloo tube station is at coordinates Coordinates:
