19th-century London (1819), Waterloo Bridge (1817), the Hungerford Bridge (opened in 1845 as a footbridge, and converted in 1859 into a combination footbridge/railway bridge for Charing Cross Station), and Tower Bridge (1894). Further upriver, the new bridges included Lambeth Bridge (1862), which replaced a centuries-old cross-river ferry service, Vauxhall Bridge (opened 1816), Victoria Bridge (opened in 1858 and later renamed the Chelsea Bridge), and Wandsworth Bridge (1873). The impetus for this building was London's massive population growth, which put a constant strain on existing communications between the north and south banks. London Bridge remained the city's busiest artery for the entire century,
London Bridge Area Signalling Centre London Bridge Area Signalling Centre London Bridge Area Signalling Centre (ASC) is a signalling centre on the Kent Route of Network Rail Ltd. on the railway in Great Britain, principally covering the line from London (Charing Cross, Cannon Street and London Bridge) to Kent and Sussex route areas of Network Rail Ltd. The signalling centre opened in 1974. During 1974/75, the first section of the control panel in London Bridge ASC was commissioned, gradually replacing redundant signalling locations in the area and principally replacing the old 1923-built London Bridge signal box. Railway track layouts were altered to separate Cannon Street,