London Waterloo station (London)

United Kingdom / England / London
 train station, tube station
London Waterloo is the largest and busiest of the mainline railway terminals in London. It also has a station on the London Underground. It is the terminus of the lines to the southwest of England, including Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth. The London Underground station serves the Northern, Bakerloo and Jubilee lines along with a short line to Bank. It was opened in 1848 by the London and South Western Railway.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Waterloo_station
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Coordinates:   51°30'6"N   -0°6'47"E

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  • It was always ironic that the Eurostar, which showed cooperation between England and France terminated at a train station named after Napolean's defeat. One French politician wrote in anger to Tony Blair, demanding he changed the name of the station (but what would you call it?). Mind you, Paris has a Gare d'Austerlitz, named after one of his greatest victories. Not long ago, I was showing a French friend around London and rather embarassingly, we kept spotting places named after Waterloo, Trafalgar, Nelson and Wellington.