Travelling to St Thomas' Hospital (near Waterloo)

Patients and visitors

• Patients and visitors
• Getting here
  • Overview
  • Getting to St Thomas'
  • Getting to Guy's
  • Help with travel
  • Travel between the hospitals
  • Getting to the Education Centre
• At the hospitals
  • Finding your way around
  • Useful facilities at Guy's
  • Useful facilities at St Thomas'
  • Knowledge & Information Centre (KIC)
  • MediCinema
• Patients
  • Why choose us?
  • Concerns and complaints
  • Your inpatient stay
    • Before you leave home
    • Your ward
      • Settling into your ward
      • Information for visitors
      • Television, radio and phones
      • Meeting your ward team
      • Your meals
    • Your treatment
    • Your medicines
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Leaving hospital
  • Outpatient appointments
    • Before your outpatient appointment
    • At your appointment
  • Children's services
  • About your care
    • Help and advice
    • Our consent policy
    • Language support
      • Overview
      • Need an interpreter?
    • Patient information team
      • Patient information service
      • Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
    • Nursing and midwifery staff - meet the team
    • Your health records
  • Patient leaflets
    • Overview
    • A-Z of patient leaflets by title
    • Patient leaflets listed by department
  • Making, changing or cancelling an appointment
  • Organ donation
  • Become a patient assessor
• Visiting
  • Information for visitors
  • Our wards
  • Hospital accommodation
  • Smoking restrictions at our hospitals
• Reducing infections
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Patient leaflets
  • Healthcare associated infections
  • Washing your hands
• Showing we care - information films
• Feedback
  • Feedback

Our Services

Our services are based on 2 hospital sites and several locations within the community| in South East London.

Please check that your appointment or stay is at St Thomas' Hospital before setting out.

• Address

  St Thomas' Hospital
  Westminster Bridge Road
  London SE1 7EH

  Tel: 020 7188 7188

• Location maps

  

  View the location on Bing maps

Building maps

• St Thomas' Hospital (PDF 1Mb)
• St Thomas' Hospital - lower ground floor (PDF 812Kb)
• see the Direct Enquiries website for photographic journey planners with detailed access information
• more help finding your way around the hospitals

Travel information

• Tube

  The nearest tube stations are:

  • Westminster - District, Circle and Jubilee lines (10 minutes' walk)
  • Waterloo - Bakerloo, Jubilee and Northern lines (15 minutes' walk)
  • Lambeth North - Bakerloo line (15 minutes' walk)

• Train

  Waterloo, Waterloo East, are the nearest railway stations, and a 10 - 15 minutes' walk away.

  Victoria and Charing Cross are also close, 20 – 30 minutes' walk.

  For more information, please call National Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950 or visit the National Rail website.

• Bus

  Allow 15 - 20 minutes to get from the bus stop to where you need to be in the hospital. The following bus routes serve St Thomas':

  • 12, 53, 148, 159, 211, 453, C10 - stop at Westminster Bridge Road
  • 77, 507, N44 - stop at Lambeth Palace Road
  • 3, 344, C10, N3 - stop at Lambeth Road (15 minutes' walk)
  • 76, 341, 381, RV1 - stop at York Road
  • N44, N155, N159, N381 - Night buses stop at Westminster Bridge Road
  • N3 Night bus - stops at Lambeth Road

  See the bus routes map| (PDF 203Kb) or for information about buses and tubes, call Transport for London on 0843 222 1234 (24 hours).

• Bicycle

  Bicycle racks are located at the front of the main reception along side Gassiot House and next to the Florence Nightingale Museum, both areas are covered by CCTV. See useful cycling information on the Transport for London website.

• Parking

  St Thomas' Hospital is located in the Congestion Charging zone. Please use public transport whenever possible.

  Parking for patients and visitors is very limited and there is often a queue. The car park is 'pay on foot', which means you need to pay and get your exit ticket before returning to your car. Please have the correct change.

  Parking charges

  The car park is open 24 hours a day. Charges are:

  • £2.60 per hour Monday - Friday, 6am - 6.30pm
  • £1.50 at all other times.

  Charging exceptions

  • Disabled patients are given free parking in the main car park upon production of their blue badge registered in their name along with an appointment card.