--- title: Weekday Warriors description: A pair of Battle of Waterloo re-enactors ride an escalator in London's Waterloo station on June 10 after the Duke of Wellington unveiled a new... canonical: https://time.com/3917714/weekday-warriors/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-11T14:51:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:07:44.586Z article:section: World og:title: Weekday Warriors og:description: A pair of Battle of Waterloo re-enactors ride an escalator in London's Waterloo station on June 10 after the Duke of Wellington unveiled a new... og:url: https://time.com/3917714/weekday-warriors/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Weekday Warriors twitter:description: A pair of Battle of Waterloo re-enactors ride an escalator in London's Waterloo station on June 10 after the Duke of Wellington unveiled a new... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Weekday Warriors by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 11, 2015 2:51 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 11, 2015 2:51 PM CUT A pair of Battle of Waterloo re-enactors ride an escalator in London’s Waterloo station on June 10 after the Duke of Wellington unveiled a new bronze plaque commemorating the soldiers who died in that epic victory over Napoleon’s troops 200 years ago. For more of our best photography, visit lightbox.time.com ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3917714/weekday-warriors/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3917714/weekday-warriors/"},"headline":"Weekday Warriors","datePublished":"2015-06-11T14:51:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:07:44.586Z","description":"A pair of Battle of Waterloo re-enactors ride an escalator in London's Waterloo station on June 10 after the Duke of Wellington unveiled a new...","url":"https://time.com/3917714/weekday-warriors/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3917714/weekday-warriors/","name":"Weekday Warriors"}}]}] ```