The word on the grapevine was that there was a depot we could easily get into. As those who have read previous posts know, Depots are usually the most heavily guarded areas of the tube network. Reserved only for hardcore graffiti taggers, usually from overseas, damaging the tube stock for their hollybobs. I was reticent, but figured I might be able to run away faster than the others! The main target was the tiny Waterloo & City line depot. It sits across the way from Waterloo station, its most obvious sign being a crane near the entrance road, for bringing in new stock etc.

I met up with Orange Coat Paranoia (OCP) and Eat the Rich (EtR) again. After a quick catching up, we headed down the road to begin tonight's adventures. Access was a wait for a quiet moment affair, as the traffic darted all around. Then hop and drop, and a shifty, quick walk across a yard, and along a corrugated roof. Here you can see us all huddled at the point where we could drop down to the depot floor.

All of us shuffling around in turn to get a look deeper into the depot. The main running tracks and station are at the left side of the photo.

Looking at the above photo, this is the buffers at the end of the depot. We didn't see a soul about, yet none of us had the balls to drop fully into the depot. Standing on this shed roof was as far as anyone got.

We could see little CCTV domes everywhere, and just couldn't get the balls to hop down and have more of a look. This is a pic showing the steel girder infrastructure, and the empty track on the left heads off to the station platforms and the running tunnel.

After figuring we weren't going to go any further here, we all upped and left. 

We had heard that the barbed wire and fence protection along the Bakerloo line sidings not too far away on Lambeth Road was being replaced, so there was a small window to have a look at that depot too.

The wall now has fencing all along, but at the time the half of the wall nearest the depot building didn't. So this was a shot leaning over the wall and down into the depot. It looked very tempting, and I was game. The drop from the wall was a bit too high though, and the wall had a curved top, so it would have been hard to get any grip to get up quickly.

A wider shot of the above. A rather primitive roof sits over the stored trains.

Figuring there was little else to do, I got back in the car and headed home. I found out later that  OCP and EtR had spotted a tree branch that gave them the purchase they needed to get back up again. And so they popped down to have a look and got some nice photos with the trains. Victory favours the brave and all that. Props to OCP and EtR for trip.