Waterloo Station
Waterloo is the busiest railway station in Britain, and from above it is one of the largest single roofs in London. It opened in 1848 as the terminus of the London and South Western Railway, a modest affair that grew by accretion into a famous muddle of platforms, and it was rebuilt from end to end between 1900 and 1922. Queen Mary opened the finished station, with its Victory Arch to the railway’s war dead, in March 1922. The station takes its name from Waterloo Bridge, which was named for the battle of 1815.
Twenty-four platforms lie under the roof. From 1994 to 2007 five of them formed Waterloo International, Nicholas Grimshaw’s long glass snake of a terminal for the Eurostar, until the trains moved to St Pancras.
From above the station is the wide grey roof behind the South Bank, between the London Eye and the railway lines fanning out towards Vauxhall. Most people only ever see it from inside.
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