Local Transport

The approach to Waterloo 

The above photo, taken from a balloon over Spring Gardens, shows the railway line up from Vauxhall to Waterloo Station with a Eurostar to the left and suburban trains to the right.

One of the advantages of living in Vauxhall/Kennington is that it has excellent transport links.

  • You can get by Tube direct from Vauxhall or the Oval/Kennington to most London rail termini. You need to change for Paddington and Marylebone (but it's an easy change from the Victoria Line to the Bakerloo line at Oxford Circus), Liverpool Street is a short walk from Moorgate, and Fenchurch St is a short walk from Bank. First tubes are about 0530 weekdays and last tubes arrive about 0030 weekdays.
  • Buses run in all directions from Kennington, Vauxhall and the Oval, including a new route through to Sloane Square and Kensington. If you are not in a hurry, buses really are the best way to see London. Click here to access a detailed map of all London's bus routes.

Trains run every 3 or 4 minutes from Vauxhall (platform 8) to Clapham Junction for connections for most of South and South-West England:- ideal for a day out at the seaside. Other trains run north (to Kings Cross, Luton & Bedford) and south (to Wimbledon & Sutton) from Elephant and Castle.

International connections from Vauxhall (platform 7) via Waterloo International mean that you can reach a large number of European destinations - as far as Barcelona, Copenhagen and Wien (Vienna) - within one day by train by changing at Lille, Paris or Brussels. Earliest arrival times in nearby cities are approximately as follows:- Paris 0920, Brussels 0940, Koln (Cologne) 1240, Amsterdam 1340.

Day travelcards are particularly good value, offering unlimited travel on tubes, buses, railways and the Docklands Light Railway. Prices start at £3.10 for an adult and no charge for a child (if travelling together at weekends or after 0930 on weekdays) for the whole of zones 1 & 2 (from Fulham in the west to Greenwich in the east).

New tram link for Kennington? Transport for London are planning a Cross River Transit scheme incorporating a new tram line from Euston and Waterloo Bridge down Kennington Lane and then past the Oval and through to Clapham.