This is one of the busiest stations in London as it acts as a main thoroughfare for not only trains…read morebut buses as well. Each time I've used this station it's been an easy experience. Even though it's extremely busy, it's easy to navigate and signage is clear. If you're in need of assistance, employees are very patient and helpful.

If you haven't experienced London Victoria during rush hour you haven't lived!…read more Can be crazy intimidating for tourists , just get out of their way step to the side and if you can read your train timetable you'll be fine One of my favorite places to watch people rushing everywhere is to sit at the Whethersppons pub above on the second floor with a bacon buttie and coffee Great view,

So, this is another one of those tube stations that interchange with one of the major main lines…read morewhich go to the outer suburbs and the regions. It's a decent station, and I did find myself coming here more often than not, namely because the station was a short walk from my AirBnd. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

Nice & cool area Not too busy…read more It domestic tube train station Not so crowdy Recommended

Ahh, Vauxhall. I cannot decide whether I love or hate you…read more Vauxhall is great in that it serves both an overground service (into Waterloo, out to Clapham Junction, Wimbledon and off out to Surrey), and underground (Victoria Line). There is also a bus station here so there are at least some alternatives if your journey is scuppered by defective trains. It's within walking distance of Oval station, Pimlico station, and is just a short bus ride to Victoria. There always seems to be roadworks or some kind of construction works going on here and the station is a nightmare if you're running late for your train as they always seem to block off exactly the path you need to get to your platform. Still... I use this station to go home and see the family so it serves me well!

This entry covers the Train Station, Underground Station and Bus Station which are all really…read moreseparate, albeit integrated, entities. The Train station has recently undergone works to install lifts to all platforms and to the subway which leads to the Underground and to the other side of the Vauxhall Cross Gyratory. This has made a massive difference to the accessibility of the station but many issues remain: the platforms are still not level with trains so people with mobility problems, especially wheelchair users, will still require assistance. Also, the underground station itself still has no lifts. The bus station on the other hand is excellent, well designed with striking architecture and copes well with the large number of buses serving it, it is also able to accomodate modern, accessible buses.

I remember years ago that I was supposed to meet a friend at this station and my immediate thought…read morewas, gee, it can't be that big. Well, it turned out that I was completely wrong - this station is absolutely massive, much, much bigger than I have every experienced (in fact it is the biggest station in England). Yeah, so it turned out that I had absolutely no idea where to meet him (though we ended up meeting up anyway). Yeah, this station is nothing short of massive, and it simply took me ages just to locate the tube station so I could get back to my hotel. To a guy from Australia the size of this station is mindboggling.

I thought Bank was the worst, but Waterloo definitely gives it a run for its money. It's a very…read morebusy station, possibly the busiest, with Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee and Waterloo & City lines meeting here underground, as well as being the terminus for South West Trains. Getting from one to the other involves lots and lots of walking and the signage could use a little improvement. If you do have to connect here, I advice you pack some patience. Lots of it. And maybe a compass. Note: The Bakerloo platform is curved. The carriages are straight. This means there's a gap of as much as six or eight inches between the train and the platform. Mind the gap.

This is a very fine station indeed. Not many people know that you can get from Clapham to Victoria…read morein 11 mins on the overland. There are 2 trains an hour and they absolutely fly through south London. Dump the tube and use the train!

I found the London train's to be excellent and probably NYC could learn a thing or two. I was…read morestaying in Canary Wharf for five days. When conversing with the very nice employee here and he was explaining the zones he informed me that the majority of all travelers remain within Zone 1-2 on the Jubilee line. He also informed that the Westminster stop would be where a lot of the sights would be. Upon arrival, I noticed how clean the station was, I didn't see a garbage can in sight, but yet, I didn't one piece of garbage on the floor. All stops here have signage everywhere-- where to transfer, where to exit, some of the sights at that station, etc. what a huge help when you're in a city or country for the first time! They have an employee at the gate so you can ask questions and they are actually eager to assist without an attitude!

The thing about this station is that when you get off one of the lines it simply feels as if you…read moreare literally at the bottom of the pit. The reason for this is that I can basically see the escalators heading up to the sub-surface. That's probably because how they originally built this station, though ironically it seems as if this is the only deep level tube station they built this way. Still, I have to admit that it does happen to be pretty cool, especially when you come up from the deep level.

What: Waterloo station. We took the Underground to Waterloo then followed the signs to the trains…read moreto take the Southwestern Railway (SWR) to Salisbury. It was clearly labeled. We arrived very early for fear of missing our train and kept checking the boards overhead for our listing and wasn't seeing it. Finally 20 minutes to departure I found an employee to ask and they were like yeah Number 9 right there. I wasn't thinking that my stop wasn't the last stop on the line so I wasn't see Salisbury in the list of several stops. Duh! Anyway finally got on and it was a smooth 1 hour 23 minute ride. Ambiance: there are tons of shops here with lots of food options to choose from. We went to Pret and bought sandwiches and drinks to eat on the train as that is allowed.

Busy busy busy. Bustling and confounding. The only station I used that I had trouble navigating…read more Once you can find an employee, they are helpful. I think if I was in London more often, I would get used to it. But in my two visits to the city, I have found this station to be the most difficult to figure out. But it is clean, it is bright, and it is a hub with several food and shop options. It does its job.

In a perfect world, this would probably be about 3.5 stars but I'll round up to four because you…read morecan make a lot of connections here, whether the tube or the commuter rail. The location is great because if you come in here, you're close to Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden, Embankment and Leicester Square. There are not too many tracks so it's easy to get your train. We took a Southeastern train to London Bridge here and it was very quick. For connected tube service, you can access the Northern and the Bakerloo lines. It's quite a trek to get to the Bakerloo line but it's nice to have the connections in one place. Also, many bus lines go right be here so it's easy to get a direct ride to this station. While we were staying near Trafalgar Square, this was our most used transit hub.

The Charing Cross Railway station connects to the tube station of the same name. Gayle and I came…read morein on a Southeastern Railway station above ground and found those areas to be a bit more modern and spacious than the underground part. We greatly appreciated the convenience of the direct Canterbury West to Charing Cross Route and the subsequent short walk to our hotel (at Trafalgar Square) from there. This station is a bit smaller than some of the other transit hub stations (e.g. Paddington, St. Pancras, etc.), which was just fine by us.

So, I ended up staying around the corner from this station, so you could say that it was one of my…read morelocal stations (though there was another one I could get to easily as well). The name actually comes from the Oval which is around the corner, and they also play cricket there, and it was also the Oval that was made famous due to the Ashes.

A true Yelper should be reviewing Underground stations. Please discuss…read more In the meantime, while you guys debate whether it's actually worth posting a review about an Underground station unless there's some particularly interesting or important fact about it, I shall post a review of Oval Underground station. Oval station isn't oval. However, it is located close to the Oval cricket ground, which is oval. In fact, you can see it on the map on the homepage for Oval Underground Station for yourself to confirm that it is oval. The Northern line stops here. It's served by escalator rather than lift. It's the nearest Underground station to where I go salsa dancing on Friday evenings. Ummm, I've run out of meaningful things to say about Oval Underground station, so I'll stop here. Just mind the gap!

Okay, this is basically another one of the many underground stations in London. It's not all that…read morebad, and of course it means that you can get to another part of the city quite easily. In fact it was near where I was staying, which was good. Yeah, it's not that bad.

Stockwell station is well-situated on both the Victoria and the Northern lines (both branches of…read morethe latter). The station is well laid-out so that it's easy to cross to the other platforms. What I really love about this station though, and what makes me proud to live in Stockwell, is the atmosphere the staff have created in the station. From occasionally playing classical music over the speaker systems, to setting up a small book swap stall in the main concourse, the staff really have gone above and beyond to add a personal touch to the place.