Waterloo & City the true facts (Waterloo & City Line)

Member Name: emmjay

Product:	Waterloo & City Line
Date:	20/07/05 (217 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very quick links to the City

Disadvantages: Very crowded during rush hour.

The Waterloo & City line offers a very quick link between Waterloo and Bank stations, which is of great use to the banking community and as Fenchurch street is only a 10 minute walk from Bank station it also provides a useful link from waterloo to the C2C services.
The line consists of 5 trains serviced by Central line staff,and driven by Leytonstone based drivers.
The trains themselves are fast and mostly reliable,only taking 4 minutes for the journey.
The trains are 1992 stock which are almost identical to the Central line stock,the only main difference being that the W&C trains are driven manually 100% of the time as they are not equipped with automatic train protection.
The condition of the track is not that good, making for a noisy ride, but this will be sorted by 2007 with a track replacement which will follow a closure of the line for 6 months in April 2007.
On the whole the line makes a welcome change from travelling on other lines and if you are travelling out of peak hours or in the a.m peak you are going from Bank to Waterloo or the reverse journey for the evening peak,you will always get a seat as the crowds will be travelling in the opposite direction.

Summary: Fast,reliable and well worth a try.