Waterloo tube station
Bakerloo line, Jubilee line, Northern line and Waterloo & City line · Zone 1 · Lambeth
About Waterloo station
The first tube line here began outside the Underground: the Waterloo & City Railway, nicknamed ‘The Drain’, opened on 8 August 1898 as a subsidiary of the London and South Western Railway, and only became part of the Underground on 1 April 1994. The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, today’s Bakerloo line, opened on 10 March 1906, and the Hampstead & Highgate line, now the Northern line’s Charing Cross branch, arrived with its extension to Kennington on 13 September 1926.
Leslie Green’s York Road entrance was demolished in 1951 for a temporary one on the Festival of Britain site, where escalators replaced lifts. A permanent entrance built into the Shell Centre followed in the early 1960s; closed in 2015 for the Southbank Place redevelopment, it reopened larger, with an extra escalator, in May 2019. The Jubilee line platforms, opened in September 1999 and overseen by Roland Paoletti, lay so far from the older lines that a 115-metre moving walkway was installed to connect them, one of only two on the Underground. A Kendra Haste elephant sculpture stands between the escalators in the Colonnade ticket hall. With 77.39 million users in 2024, Waterloo is the most used station on the Underground.
First and last trains from Waterloo
| Line and direction | Mon–Thu first – last | Friday first – last | Saturday first – last | Sunday first – last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bakerloo towards Elephant & Castle | 06:00 – 00:38 | 06:00 – 00:38 | 06:00 – 00:38 | 07:36 – 23:56 |
| Bakerloo towards Queen's Park, Harrow & Wealdstone or Stonebridge Park | 05:41 to Harrow & Wealdstone – 00:27 | 05:41 to Harrow & Wealdstone – 00:27 | 05:41 to Harrow & Wealdstone – 00:27 | 07:20 to Harrow & Wealdstone – 23:41 |
| Jubilee towards Stanmore, Wembley Park or West Hampstead | 05:34 – 00:30 | 05:34 – all night | 24 hours | all night – 23:56 |
| Jubilee towards Stratford, North Greenwich or West Ham | 05:30 – 00:50 | 05:30 – all night | 24 hours | all night – 00:04 |
| Northern towards Battersea Power Station, Kennington or Morden | 05:58 to Morden – 00:36 to Morden | 05:58 to Morden – all night | 24 hours | all night – 23:46 to Morden |
| Northern towards High Barnet, Edgware or Mill Hill East | 05:38 – 00:35 to Edgware | 05:38 – all night | 24 hours | all night – 23:40 |
| Waterloo & City towards Bank | 06:00 – 00:20 | 06:00 – 00:20 | No service | No service |
Times are TfL’s published timetable departures from this station; on Saturday the list follows TfL’s “Saturdays and public holidays” timetable.
At the busiest hour on a weekday there are up to 18 Bakerloo trains an hour per direction, 27 Jubilee trains an hour per direction, 24 Northern trains an hour per direction and 19 Waterloo & City trains an hour per direction from Waterloo, counting both directions separately.
Next stations from Waterloo
Running times between Waterloo and the adjoining stations, from TfL’s timetable.
| Line | Next station | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Bakerloo | Embankment | 2.8 min |
| Bakerloo | Lambeth North | 1.6 min |
| Jubilee | Southwark | 1.2 min |
| Jubilee | Westminster | 1.7 min |
| Northern | Embankment | 1.5 min |
| Northern | Kennington | 3.2 min |
| Waterloo & City | Bank | 3.5 min |
Connections
- Tube: change here between the Bakerloo line, Jubilee line, Northern line and Waterloo & City line.
- Buses: 1, 11, 59, 68, 76, 77, 139, 172, 176, 188, 243, 341, 381, BL1, C10, SL6 (night buses N1, N171, N381, N68).
- National Rail: South Western Railway.
Station facilities
What is near Waterloo station
Beneath the Waterloo main-line terminus, the station is within walking distance of the South Bank. The London Eye is about 340 m away, the Southbank Centre about 280 m and the Royal Festival Hall about 310 m, with the Hayward Gallery and the London Dungeon both around 320 m. The BFI IMAX is about 190 m away and BFI Southbank about 380 m, King’s College London’s Waterloo Campus is roughly 290 m off, and SEA LIFE Aquarium London around 370 m.
| Place | Walk from the station |
|---|---|
| Topolski Century | 180 m |
| BFI IMAX | 190 m |
| University of Notre Dame (London Global Gateway) | 260 m |
| BPP Law School | 270 m |
| Southbank Centre | 280 m |
| King's College London, Waterloo Campus | 290 m |
| Royal Festival Hall | 310 m |
| The London Dungeon | 320 m |
Frequently asked questions
The Jubilee line platforms, opened in 1999, are a long way from the Bakerloo and Northern lines and from the railway station above. A 115-metre (377 ft) moving walkway was installed to link them, one of only two on the Underground; the other leads to the Waterloo & City line platform at Bank.
It opened in 1898 as a subsidiary of the London and South Western Railway and later passed to British Railways. Ownership moved to the Underground on 1 April 1994, but because of an Easter shutdown the first Underground service ran on 5 April 1994.