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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.
Stations of the London Underground's Waterloo & City line. Pages in category "Waterloo & City line stations" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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The London Underground 1992 Stock is a type of rolling stock used on the Central and Waterloo & City lines of the London Underground.A total of 85 eight-car trains were built for the Central line and 5 four-car trains were built for the Waterloo & City line.
Waterloo Underground Depot is a London Underground maintenance depot which stables the Waterloo & City line's fleet of 1992 Stock trains. The depot is entirely below ground and is situated beyond the Waterloo & City line platform end at Waterloo Underground station. [2] Trains from Bank reverse at the depot before returning.
Waterloo is a London Underground station located beneath Waterloo National Rail station. As of 2023, it is the 2nd busiest station on the London Underground, with 70.33 million users. [5] It is served by four lines: Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and Waterloo & City. The Jubilee line westbound platform, January 2006
The first underground line to be opened at Waterloo was the Waterloo & City Railway to Bank, colloquially known as "The Drain" owing to its access via a sloping subway at the Bank end. [103] It opened on 8 August 1898, and was part-owned by the L&SWR, who took over full ownership in 1907.
In 1937, the management of the Southern Railway, which had responsibility for the Waterloo & City Line, began the process of procuring new rolling stock.Despite the advent of World War II, this was too far advanced to be halted, and the new trains were delivered from the English Electric factory at Preston during 1940, officially entering service on 28 October of that year.