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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.
The Windsor lines of the London and South Western Railway ran from Waterloo to Windsor via Richmond, with a loop via Hounslow.They started as the Richmond Railway, a simple independent branch line, but they developed a distinct identity and had their own approach to Waterloo alongside the Main Lines, and a distinct section of Waterloo station.
Plusbus is available in 290 towns and cities, London is a notable exception. [5] It gives the rail traveller unlimited local bus travel around the whole urban area of the origin and/or destination town(s) of their rail journey. It is not valid with train journeys made within the same city or town.
The LSWR continued to be concerned about the remoteness of Waterloo from the City of London. The approaches to Ludgate Hill via Loughborough Junction were circuitous and slow, and inaccessible to passengers using main line trains, and outer suburban trains, at Waterloo. The City and South London Railway opened in 1890 as a deep level tube railway.
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The Staines–Windsor line is a railway line in Berkshire and Surrey, England.It runs for 6 miles 46 ch (10.6 km) from its terminus at Windsor & Eton Riverside station to an at-grade junction with the Waterloo–Reading line at the west end of Staines station, 19 mi 2 ch (30.6 km) down the line from London Waterloo.
A concrete structure was provided, climbing at 1 in 60 and descending at 1 in 45. In addition a new Up Through Relief line was provided from Vauxhall to Waterloo, to deal with the slow approach of arriving main line and empty stock trains. One of the four Windsor line tracks was sacrificed to enable this. [40]
Windsor & Eton Riverside station is a station in Windsor, Berkshire, England.The station, close to the River Thames and Windsor Castle, is a Grade II listed building. [1] It is 25 miles 48 chains (41.2 km) down the line from London Waterloo and is the terminus of the Staines to Windsor Line, served by South Western Railway.