Rail and Heritage Loop: Waterloo to Paddington

Waterloo Station - Victoria Station - Paddington Station: 5.3 miles (8.5 km)

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Waterloo Station - Victory Arch (WW1): to left Bellona, goddess of War, and right Peace.

Leake Street - largest art tunnel in London, beneath Waterloo Station.

The London Eye - the world’s tallest cantilevered observation wheel opened 31st Dec 1999.

Golden Jubilee Bridge - modernised in 2002 alongside the Hungerford railway bridge.

Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette - designer of the London Sewage System from 1858.

Whitehall Gardens - formally The Privy Garden of the Palace of Whitehall.

Banqueting House - designed by Inigo Jones for James I in the Classical Style circa 1622.

The Household Cavalry Museum - celebrating the traditions of Britain’s oldest regiments.

Horse Guards Parade - home of Trooping the Colour, on the monarch’s official birthday.

Churchill War Rooms - WWII operations rooms and now disused underground complex.

Queen Anne’s Gate - formally two streets separated by a wall, but removed in 1873.

Tothill Street and Petty France - former western route from Westminster until the 1850’s.

Cardinal Place - shopping centre built in 2003 on the former site of Esso House circa 1960’s.

Victoria Street - circa 1850, the new route west from Westminster to link Victoria Station.

Little Ben clock tower - erected in 1892 to commemorate its big brother, cast iron model.

Victoria Station - stands on former Grosvenor Canal basin, c1860 originally two stations.

Victoria Station concourse - designed by Robert J. Hood, with orig. 6 platforms/10 tracks!

Eccleston Yards - refurbished houses and yard for artisan eateries, shops and social space.

Victoria Coach Station - built in 1932 in the Art Deco Style, then to London Transport, 1988.

Peggy Porschen - Elizabeth St. Belgravia, floral door arch decoration.

Sloane Square - once a crossroad, the island was built in 1929 with surrounding pavements.

Pont Street - part of London’s longest Mews, and influenced by the Flemish Renaissance.

Coal Hole covers - Victorian cast iron cover in pavement for delivery of coal to homes.

Michelin House - opened in 1911, built in the Art Deco Style, Michelin Tyres UK HQ.

The thin house - truncated triangular house in Thurloe Square Garden.

Natural History Museum - est. in 1881, famed for its collection of dinosaur skeletons.

Victoria and Albert Museum - est. from the Great Exhibition of 1851 celebrating design.

Science Museum - separating collections from the V&A and opening in 1928 to the public.

Imperial College London - top university for scientists, designers and mathematicians.

The Albert Memorial - unveiled in 1872 and dedicated to Prince Albert by Queen Victoria.

Serpentine South - gallery opened in 1970 in the former 1930’s tea pavillion.

Peter Pan Statue - sculpted by Sir George Frampton and installed in 1912 at night by Barrie.

Hyde Park Italian Gardens - created in the 1860’s, gifted from Prince Albert, water garden.