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The Waterloo & City line, colloquially known as The Drain, [4] is a shuttle line of the London Underground that runs between Waterloo and Bank with no intermediate stops. Its primary traffic consists of commuters from south-west London, Surrey and Hampshire arriving at Waterloo main line station and travelling forward to the City of London financial district.
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An aerial view showing the viaduct and the South West Main Line to its terminus at Waterloo. A 70m section of the viaduct's ageing parapet collapsed unexpectedly during engineering work on Christmas Day 2020. [8] [9] [10] In the 2020s, an arch through the viaduct was opened up as a pedestrian route as part of the Northern line extension to ...
The L&SWR spent the 1880s and 1890s trying to finalise plans to continue the line beyond Waterloo to the City. An overhead line was proposed in 1882, and again in 1891, but both times was rejected due to cost. In 1893, an act was passed for a tube railway. On 8 August 1898, the company opened the Waterloo & City line, a deep level underground ...
The South West Main Line [1] (SWML) is a 143-mile (230 km) major railway line between Waterloo station in central London and Weymouth on the south coast of England. A predominantly passenger line, it serves many commuter areas including south western suburbs of London and the conurbations based on Southampton and Bournemouth.
Great Western Railway Class 802 IET with a westbound Atlantic Coast Express at Par in May 2019. After completion of the lines to Bude in 1898 and Padstow in 1899, the London & South Western Railway (L&SWR) introduced the first North Cornwall Express in 1900 [1] [page needed] leaving London Waterloo at 11:10, and this continued over the next decade as the North Cornwall & Bude Express with the ...
Southwark (/ ˈ s ʌ ð ər k /) is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Southwark at the corner of Blackfriars Road and The Cut. It is between Waterloo and London Bridge stations on the Jubilee line, and is in Travelcard Zone 1. It was opened on 20 November 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension. [8]
The station buildings are now offices for Condor Ferries which operated a ferry service to the Channel Islands. However, with the purchase of its new ferry in 2015, Condor ceased to serve the port of Weymouth. The line was designated "Out of Use (temporary)" for a period of two years by Network Rail on 15 January 2007, [4] and again on 1 April ...