Overview

Within the mainline concourse, platforms are numbered 1 - 19 from left to right as you face the platforms. platforms 1 - 18 share island platforms whilst platform 19 runs along the current right-hand side of the station, beside the former Eurostar section.

Note that:

• Platforms 1 - 10 and 15 - 16 have straightforward entrances/exits;
• Platform 11 has its own entrance/exit, to your left of the left luggage office;
• platforms 12 - 13 have an entrance to your right of the Left Luggage office, whilst the entrance/exit to platforms 13 - 14 is also the exit from platform 12;
• the entrance to platforms 17 - 18 also serves platform 19, whilst the exit from platform 19 is also the exit to platforms 17 - 18.

The Waterloo & City Line can be reached via exit 2 from the low level concourse, exit 7 in the mainline concourse, or from the mainline concourse via the Underground concourse.

From Which Entrance?

From Exit 1

This provides level access from Station Approach Road into the mainline concourse. As you enter the concourse, you're facing across the entrances of the platforms, the entrance to platforms 1 - 2 is the first turning left.

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From Exit 2

From Platform Level

This provides level access from the taxi rank on Station Approach into the mainline concourse. You're opposite platform 4.

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At Low Level

From the low level from Waterloo Road or the Jubilee Line, there is escalator or lift access to the mainline concourse and stairs access to the Waterloo &: City Line.

To The Mainline Concourse

As you move away from Waterloo Road, you pass the retail outlets to your left before you reach the far side of the lower concourse. In front of you, from left to right, you have:

• passage to lift,
• down escalator,
• up escalator.

The pair of escalators to your right of these were both downward at the time of our survey. Go to the mainline concourse. You're about opposite platform 4.

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To the Waterloo & City Line

Go up the steps, to your right of the escalators, into the passage which turns right then left. Continue, down two flights of steps then follow the passage to the wall in front of you. From here you can take either of two ramps down onto the departure platform. The first turning right brings you near the rear of the train, whilst the second brings you near the front. In either case, you move right into a recess then continue forward, down the ramp then turn right onto the platform.

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From Exit 3

This provides level access from Station Approach into the mainline concourse. You enter about opposite platform 13.

Note this was originally the road entrance through the concourse.

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From Exit 4

From Tenison Way, you go down two flights of steps into the subway then continue to the escalators. The right-hand escalator is normally the one you need. Go up into the mainline concourse. You're opposite the former Eurostar section.

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From Exit 5

From Station Approach,you go up two flights of steps into the mainline concourse. You're opposite the former Eurostar section.

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From Exit 6

See the Environs page for details of the foot bridge over York Road.

You enter the mainline concourse at the top end, beyond the former Eurostar section. Continue forward till you reach the rear of the well around the escalators to the Underground station.

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From Exit 7, Waterloo & City Line

Strictly speaking, this isn't an entrence/exit to the station, but merely a route to/from the Waterloo & City Line. We merely include this paragraph for completeness as this is numbered as an exit within the station. See the Change Platforms page for details of routes between the Waterloo & City line and the mainline platforms.

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From the Underground Station

See our guide to Waterloo Underground Station for details of routes from the Underground platforms to the mainline concourse. You're beside platform 18.

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From Waterloo East Station

See our guide to Waterloo East Station for details of the route from the platforms to the mainline concourse. You're opposite platforms 10 - 11.

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