Hi all...
I am quite confused between the "tube" and the "underground"..
I am staying by Waterloo Station and will need to get to St.Pancras for the Euro Star..
Online it says by underground it is 15 min...i am assuming that is not the tube..
Can someone help me out with this ? What is the quickest way to get from Waterloo to St Pancras...Thank you , Bill

Underground and Tube are the same; one is the official name, the other is common parlance.

Nickname or alternate name for the Lobdon Underground is the tube, they are both used.

According to www.travelplanner.tlf.gov.uk, the travel time is around 22 min. You want St. Pancras International stop for Eurostar.

This is the quickest way but there's one change so you need to consider that if you have luggage.

check out bus routes too - one may go direct from where you are staying to Kings Cross/St Pancras - Kings Cross being right next door to St Pancras International Eurostar terminal - similarly any Tube going to Kings X is fine.

Hope you aren't trying to travel Boxing Day. (see tfl.gov.uk/)

Another vocabulary factoid is that the Tube/Underground is NOT a "subway" system. A subway in London (maybe all the UK?) is a pedestrian tunnel that goes under some (busy) intersections. So if you see a "Subway" sign (and it's not on the sandwich shop), then you will not be accessing the Tube that way!

There's no "St. Pancras International" stop in the Tube. The station is Kings Cross/St. Pancras. Euston Tube stop is so close that it may be the same amount of time or less to take the Northern Line to Euston and walk to St. Pancras International terminal as it would to transfer.

You could also take the Overground train - commuter trains from Waterloo East to London Bridge, make a simple enough change of trains and take a train to Kings Cross.

Quickest way is usually the tube as there is no traffic to contend with. There is often weekend maintenance work on the lines though, so you could check on www.tfl.gov.uk

Also once you get off at Kings Cross/St Pancras you will have to find your way to the right part of the station and it's a pretty big area. Also at peak hour it gets very crowded. Leave yourself at least 15 mins from arriving at the station to finding where the Eurostar departs from. Then you still have to go through security, also British and French immigration. They follow one after the other, so when you arrive in France (or Brussels) you just walk off the train and out into the street, all formalities are done in London.

Once through security and immigration you need to wait until your train is called and up on the electronic screens, then you proceed upstairs to the platforms and find the correct carriage and seat numbers.

Kay

Take a taxi and worry less. It will leave you off at the corrct entance to the Eurostar!

thank you all

How much will taxi cost from Waterloo to St. Pancras Eurostar teminal?

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A LOT depends on time of day/day of week. But on a weekday w/ heavy traffic count on £25-£30.

Unless there are engineering works, the tube would be faster

"Unless there are engineering works, the tube would be faster"

Oddly, not. There's no direct tube, getting to and from the platforms takes forever and it's usually a surprisingly short, uncongested road journey (2.7 miles). It's actually quicker by bus than by tube if you know London reasonably well, though I wouldn't recommend this to someone with luggage or unfamiliar with the city.

During the daytime on weekdays, a taxi will usually cost about £15-£18. It's currently very, very unusual for traffic to be so congested as to take this anywhere over £20 - which would be the usual Saturday/Sunday charge.

I will be travelling in Jun on Monday from Waterloo to St. Pancras somewhere in morning time, (2 adult 2 kids). Do you know any direct bus from outside Waterloo station? I guess £15 for convininace might be worth it.

Bus 59

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaro...loodr-2289.pdf

But you may be right - depending on the volume of your luggage, a taxi might be a better bet, certainly more convenient.

w/ kids/luggage --take a taxi. There will be traffic on a Mon morning but the tube will be more hassle.