| Summary : The first underground station at Waterloo opened on 8th August 1898 to passengers using the Waterloo and City Railway. In 1906 the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (later the Bakerloo) opened an intermediate station at Waterloo on its line from Baket Street to Kennington Road (now Lambeth North). The Northern Line station opened on 13th August 1926. In preparation of the festival of Britain 1951 additional passenger facilities were provided at Waterloo housed in a striking building on the west side of york Road, with curving glass roof by Sir John Burnet, Tait and Partners. Below this glass roof, suspended from laminated timber arches, were ticket halls, escalators, a restaurant and offices. After demolition of this structure, the Underground entrance was rebuilt as a permanent addition to Waterloo's Northern and Bakerloo line station. An additional ticket hall on York Road with escalators to the Northern and Bakerloo lines was completed in May 1962 as part of the Shell Centre complex. New escalators and a small concourse below the British Rail subway at Waterloo opened on 6th December 1970, and a further ticket hall in 1973 replacing the old Bakerloo ticket hall and lifts from 17th March of that year. Extension work carried out in conjunction with the International Terminal, opened in 1994, has resulted in a much enlarged main hall finished mostly in white. In the 1980s the platforms on the Northern and Bakerloo lines were given a facelift. Chrisptopher Tipping worked on a theme of theatrea and music to design tiled panels with medieval minstrels, dancers and other figures. A new station opened at Waterloo in 1999 to serve the Jubilee line extension. Designed by the Jubilee Line Extension in-house architects, the new station is self-contained, with its own ticket hall, escalators, interchange concourses and platforms, but closely integrated into the rest of Waterloo. |