* 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 has no direct rail connection to the rest of the rail network, and vehicle exchanges require the use of road vehicles.

The University of Waterloo was originally conceived in 1955 as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties ( WCAF ), a semi-autonomous entity within Waterloo College ( now Wilfrid Laurier University, formerly known as Waterloo Lutheran University ).

Around this time other platforms, such as the Waterloo PORT networking system, gained approval for the government support that had originally been the province of the ICON.

Tux Racer was originally developed by Jasmin Patry, a student attending the University of Waterloo ( UW ) in Ontario, Canada, where he aimed to begin a career in the video game industry by pursuing a computer systems analyst ( CSA ) degree.

Brookwood originally was accessible by rail from a special station – the London Necropolis railway station – next to Waterloo station in London.

Bracknell has two railway stations, Bracknell and Martins Heron, both of which are on the Waterloo to Reading Line, originally built by the London and South Western Railway and now operated by South West Trains.

Central, Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok stations were originally named after the streets crossing or above the stations, Chater Road, Waterloo Road, and Argyle Street respectively, but the name of each station was later changed to represent the district of the station.

CFX-4 was formerly Flow3D in the United Kingdom and originally developed in-house for use by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ), and TASCflow which was developed by Advanced Scientific Computing ( ASC ), of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

The Duke of Wellington reappeared in Blackadder: Back & Forth, appearing less casually violent and loud than in his original appearance, where Blackadder's time machine accidentally crushed him before the Battle of Waterloo in his original journey through time and creates an alternate timeline where Napoleon won ; Blackadder later returns to that time frame a few moments before his original appearance to ensure that the Duke doesn't walk over to stand in the location where he was crushed originally.

*** The 1936 version of Show Boat and the 1931 version of Waterloo Bridge, both originally from Universal Studios

The township's easternmost section ( around the village of Clyde ) was originally part of Wentworth County ( now the city of Hamilton ); it was transferred to Waterloo Region in the 1970s.

He originally planned to demolish the existing house, and replace it with a more prestigious home, to be known as Waterloo Palace.

Château d ' Hougoumont ( originally Goumont ) is a large farmhouse situated at the bottom of an escarpment near the Nivelles road in Braine-l ' Alleud, near Waterloo, Belgium.

Ascot has a station on a bi-section of the railway line from London's Waterloo station to Reading, Bagshot, Aldershot and Guildford, originally built by the London and South Western Railway and now operated by South West Trains.

Altcar hosted hare coursing's Waterloo Cup from 1836 to 2005, originally with the patronage of William Philip Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton.

The railway station is served by trains on the London Waterloo to Exeter St. Davids West of England Main Line, originally built by the London and South Western Railway.

* Network SouthEast ( originally London & South East )-commuter and medium-distance trains operating in an area bounded roughly by King's Lynn, Peterborough, Worcester, Bedwyn, Exeter and Weymouth and including the Waterloo & City Line now part of London Underground

University Stadium was originally built for the Warriors Football program, but was sold to the City of Waterloo in 1974 when UW could not afford to repair the stadium.

The Thorneside railway station was originally named Waterloo when the Woolloongabba-Cleveland line opened on 1889-10-01, increasing urban development along the line's length.

The location of the house, now replaced by Carlton House Terrace, was a main reason for the creation of John Nash's ceremonial route from St James's to Regent's Park via Regent Street, Portland Place and Park Square: Lower Regent Street and Waterloo Place were originally laid out to form the approach to its front entrance ( illustration, right )