* Booknotes interview with Andrew Roberts on Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It, 12 January 2003.

* Line serving the fewest stations – Waterloo & City line, serving 2 stations.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., Waterloo Place, 1900.

** BCV: Bakerloo, Central, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines

* Waterloo & Robinson, an Austrian band

He established the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to take control of the Metropolitan District Railway and the part built Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ; Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ; and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.

The Waterloo & City line ( unofficially known as the Drain ) is a short underground railway line in London, opened on 11 July 1898.

The London and South Western Railway ( L & SWR ) reached Waterloo in 1848.

The Waterloo & City Railway opened on 11 July 1898, and from the start was operated by the L & SWR.

There have been proposals to extend the Waterloo & City Line for nearly a century.

After acquiring the Great Northern & City Railway ( GN & C ) in 1913 ( the current Northern City Line ), the Metropolitan Railway made plans to join the GN & C to the Waterloo & City or to the Circle Line, but these never came to fruition.

The London Plan Working Party Report of 1949 envisaged as its Route G the electrification of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway ( LTS ), and its diversion away from Fenchurch Street to Bank and on through the Waterloo & City tunnels to Waterloo and its suburban lines.

The Waterloo & City tunnels would have had to be bored out to main line size for this " Crossrail " to happen.

The revised Working Party Report of 1965 did not mention the Route G proposal, though it does say that " he possibility of extending the Waterloo & City Line northwards to Liverpool Street has been examined, but found to be physically impracticable.

" More recently the Green Party has revived the Metropolitan's plan of connecting the Northern City and Waterloo & City lines as a Crossrail route.

The Waterloo & City is colloquially known as The Drain.

Unlike surface railways, the Waterloo & City has underground tube tunnels.

Messroom conversation would include discussion of what turn a driver would be working tomorrow, and if it was a Waterloo & City turn of duty, it was an obvious metaphor to say that the driver was working " down the drain ".

It has only two stations, Waterloo and Bank ( the latter formerly called " City ", as it is within the City of London ) and as such is the least used line on network with around 15, 000, 000 passengers annually.

It exists almost exclusively to serve commuters to the City of London via Waterloo mainline station, and does not operate late in the evening or on Sundays ( the only occasions the line has operated on Sundays was between 1943 and 1947 and during the London 2012 Olympic Games ).

The remnants of one of the Greathead tunnelling shields used in the construction of the line can be seen in the interchange tunnel at Bank linking the Waterloo and City with the Northern Line and the Docklands Light Railway.

Incidentally the Waterloo and City line has sometimes been closed due to flooding.

Uniquely among London's Underground lines, the Waterloo & City runs underground for its entire length, including both stations.

The Waterloo & City originally had its own electric power station, and coal was delivered from Waterloo main line station using a second, smaller lift ( known as the Abbotts Lift ), which explains the continued presence of a wagon turntable in Waterloo depot.

The Curse of Davros begins with Davros and the Daleks working together to try and alter the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo using technology that Davros has created that allows him to swap peoples ' minds, with matters becoming more complicated when the Sixth Doctor uses the device to swap bodies with Davros in an attempt to subvert the Daleks ' plans from the inside.

Wellington has retreated from Quatre Bras to Waterloo, but Ney returns to Napoleon to deliver his report on the Quatre Bras engagement, which angers Napoleon, who had expected Ney to pursue Wellington, who is now free to choose his own battlefield.

He has held visiting appointments at UCLA, UC Berkeley, Princeton, UC Irvine, and the University of Waterloo.

He has also branched out as a record producer, having produced such albums as The Mission's album Children, The Datsuns ' second album Outta Sight, Outta Mind ( 2004 ) and Uncle Earl's Waterloo, Tenneesee album of Old-time music, released in March, 2007 on Rounder Records.

Since its introduction, this stock on the Waterloo & City has diverged sufficiently from that used on the Central line through various modifications, primarily to the latter with the introduction of automatic train operation, that the two are no longer interchangeable.

However, the pedestrianised Town Street which runs north from the Market Place to Waterloo Bridge has had significant investment in its heritage in the last five years and now enjoys almost full occupancy of its shops.

Since 1961, the centrepiece has been the Waterloo Town Square shopping centre, which underwent a thorough renovation in 2006.

Waterloo has a humid continental climate of the warm summer subtype ( Dfb under the Köppen climate classification ); this means that there are large seasonal differences, usually very warm to hot ( and humid ) summers and cold ( to very cold ) winters.

Waterloo has approximately 140 frost-free days per year.

Waterloo has a strong knowledge-and service-based economy with significant insurance and high-tech sectors as well as two universities .< ref name =" riding ">

Since its creation, a considerable level of commercial and residential development has built up around the Waterloo campus, notably with many offices of high-tech firms.

University of Waterloo has a series of residences: University of Waterloo Place ; Wellesley Court North ; Wellesley Court South ; William Lyon Mackenzie King Village ; Tutors ' Residence ; Columbia Lake Townhouses ; Minota Hagey Residence ; Ron Edyt Village ( REV, formerly Village 2 ); Village 1, and Sweeney Hall.

Waterloo has consistently been ranked amongst the top universities in Canada.

In the light of the logo controversy, the University of Waterloo administration has released several other designs and opened the floor to community feedback.

Waterloo has 19 terminal platforms in use, making it the joint biggest station in the UK in terms of platform numbers with London Victoria.

Waterloo has frequently appeared in television productions, including Waking the Dead, The Commander, Spooks, The Apprentice, The Bill, Top Gear and Only Fools and Horses.

Since 1988, it has been developed and sold commercially by Waterloo Maple Inc. ( also known as Maplesoft ), a Canadian company also based in Waterloo, Ontario.