London Waterloo Station
London Waterloo station is a major railway stations of London and an important transport hub. It is located in the London Borough of Lambeth and is named after the Battle of Waterloo near Brussels. Located in the Travelcard Zone 1 station facility consists of four interconnected parts; the actual main railway station, the former Euro Star terminal Waterloo International, the spatially separated Station Waterloo East and the underground metro station by London Underground. In 2011, 91.75 million passengers used the station.
Central Station Waterloo
The main train station Waterloo was opened on July 11, 1848 by the London and South Western Railway (L & SWR ). The original plans called a transit station, which would have enabled it to have trains to the City of London. Eventually, however, they built only one head station. In the beginning was the name of Waterloo Bridge, after the nearby Waterloo Bridge. In 1886, the name was changed in Waterloo, to conform to the general usage.
The station was at the time getting more crowded and dilapidated, so the company decided to demolish the entire facility and build new ones. The complexity of the system was the subject of much mocking allusions in books and plays. To know, for example in Jerome K. Jerome's novel Three Men in a Boat none of the parties the exact platform, the exact time or even the destination.
1900 began the construction of the new station with 21 tracks and a 244 -meter-long cross- hall. The work continued intermittently until 1922. During the Second World War, the station was badly damaged. A little anecdote is that Waterloo was the starting point of the daily " Burial Express" to the 48 km distant cemetery Brookwood earlier. Trains with coffins left the Necropolis station just outside the main hall. This, however, was destroyed in 1941 and not rebuilt after the war again.
After the privatization of British Rail in the 1990s the entire system came into possession of the infrastructure company Railtrack, 2002, its successor Network Rail. The trains in the southern suburbs of London and in the South West of England and are mostly operated by the railway company South West Trains.
The station is the subject of pop songs Waterloo Sunset the English rock band The Kinks from the year 1967. This song was chosen in a British magazine as one of the most beautiful songs about London.
Waterloo Station is a significant location chase scene in the movie thriller The Bourne Ultimatum, in which the main actor Matt Damon plays the role of the same name, followed by the CIA secret agents.
Waterloo International
The Waterloo International train station is right next to the actual main train station. In the two-story concourse (including parking area ) drove 14 November 1994 to 13 November 2007, the Euro Star trains to Belgium and France from. The station was built in 1990 according to plans of the architectural firm Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners and cost 130 million pounds. The architecture of the station has been widely praised and received when it opened several awards, including the award " Building of the Year " at the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture. Due to the length of the lobby and the retracting Euro Star trains saw themselves compelled to make the structure of the canopy flexible to equalize the air pressure. Therefore, at the outer abutments of the canopy elements are attached, with which the roof can be raised and lowered in segments up to 20 cm vertically.
Since the completion of the High Speed One in 2007, the Euro Star trains to St Pancras International Rail Station, which Waterloo International was unnecessary. The station was under the responsibility of the UK Department for Transport, which is important for further use. Possible variants are transforming into an office and shopping center or transfer to South West Trains for the express trains of the South Western Main Line to Weymouth. Currently ( March 2012) is the former Euro Star Station still cordoned off and orphaned.
Waterloo East
→ Refer to Waterloo Railway Station East
Waterloo East is a operationally independent through station east of the actual main train station. Access is via a pedestrian bridge. Here courses of society Southeastern from Charing Cross Station to the south coast and to Kent.
Subway station
→ Refer to Waterloo ( London Underground)
Deep under the central station is a major interchange stations of the London Underground. Here there is a Bakerloo Line, Jubilee Line, Northern Line and the Waterloo & City Line. The Waterloo & City Line, often jokingly referred to as The Drain ( " drain " ), was the first underground railway station at Waterloo and was opened on August 8, 1898 by a subsidiary of the L & SWR. The Bakerloo Line opened their platforms on March 10, 1906, followed by the Northern Line on 13 September 1926. 's Preliminary conclusion was the Jubilee Line, whose platforms were put into operation on 20 November 1999.