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Waterloo East
	London Waterloo East
	; Waterloo East viewed from the London Eye
Location	South Bank
Local authority	London Borough of Lambeth
Managed by	Southeastern
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	WAE
Platforms in use	4
Fare zone	1
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004/5	4.905 million
2005/6	4.904 million
2006/7	6.329 million
- interchange	0.812 million
2007/8	7.046 million
1 January 1869	Opened
List of stations	Underground · National Rail
External links	Departures • Layout
	Facilities • Buses
	London Transport Portal; UK Railways Portal

For the main Waterloo station, see London Waterloo station.

Railways around the South Bank

Legend

Charing Cross

River Thames

Waterloo International

Waterloo

Waterloo East

South Western Main Line

Thameslink

City Thameslink

Blackfriars

River Thames

and Sevenoaks

Brighton Main Line

and South Eastern Main Line

A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Waterloo - note the connecting line between Waterloo and Waterloo East.

Waterloo East station, also known as London Waterloo East,^[2] is a railway station in London. A walkway across Waterloo Road connects it to the larger, terminal, station London Waterloo. Although a through station, for ticketing purposes, it is considered a central London railway terminus.^[3]

[edit] History

The South Eastern Railway opened it as Waterloo Junction in January 1869 to replace Blackfriars Road station which was slightly to the east. The Southern Railway renamed it Waterloo Eastern in July 1935 and it took its present name in May 1977.
It is on the line from Charing Cross through London Bridge to Kent. Unusually, the platforms are lettered, not numbered, to avoid confusion with those of the larger station (a stratagem used for the Thameslink platforms at St Pancras International and their predecessors at King's Cross Thameslink and at New Cross).

There are ticket machines and a ticket office in the main station. Waterloo East is managed by Southeastern. The eastern end of Waterloo East has a pedestrian connection to Southwark station on the London Underground Jubilee Line.

Formerly a rail connection ran across the concourse of the main station. This saw little service, although H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds describes its use to convey troop trains to the Martian landing site. The bridge which carried the line over Waterloo Road now supports the walkway between the two stations.