Waterloo & City Line

  • Completed on 19th May 2017
  • 2 Stations over 1.47 miles
  • 30mins effort
  • London Boroughs: Lambeth & City of London

The Waterloo & City line runs between Waterloo and Bank with no intermediate stops. Its primary traffic consists of commuters and for this reason the line, except in very limited circumstances, does not operate on Sundays or public holidays. It is one of only two lines on the Underground network to run completely underground, the other being the Victoria line.

It is by far the shortest line on the Underground network with an end-to-end journey lasting just four minutes. It is the least-used Tube line, carrying just over 15 million passengers annually.

The line was built by the Waterloo & City Railway Company and was opened in 1898 (at the time, Bank station was named “City”). When it opened it was the second electric underground railway in London, following the City and South London Railway (now part of the Northern line). Its construction was supported by the London & South Western Railway, whose main line trains ran into Waterloo, and for many years remained owned and operated by the LSWR and its successors as a part of the national railway network, not as part of the London Underground network it resembled. Following a major refurbishment and replacement of rolling stock by Network SouthEast in the early 1990s, operations were transferred to London Underground in 1994.

Walking Route Waterloo & City Line
  • Waterloo Station
  • City of London from the South Bank
  • The South Bank
  • The Thames from Millennium Bridge
  • Millennium Bridge
  • The Shard from Blackfriars Foreshore
  • Bank Station