The Story of London's Waterloo Station

This is the strange and largely forgotten history of London Waterloo, the busiest railway station Britain has ever built, named after the bloodiest afternoon of the Napoleonic Wars. From a chaotic Victorian maze that became a national joke, through a private railway built to carry London's dead, to the wars, the ocean liners and the European gateway that all passed beneath its roof, the film traces how a single station became a lens on two centuries of British life. The central thread is endurance: how a place born out of confusion survived everything thrown at it.

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