Wimbledon station

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Wimbledon
Wimbledon station
Location
Place Wimbledon
Local authority London Borough of Merton
Coordinates 51°25′16.8″N, 0°12′24″W
Operations
Managed by South West Trains
Platforms in use 10
National Rail
Station code WIM
Annual entry/exit
 12.092 million *
Transport for London
Zone 3
Annual entry/exit 10.867 million †
History
1838
1855
1868
1889
1930
1997
2000		 Opened (L&SWR, mainline)
Opened (W&CR to Croydon)
Opened (TM&WR to Tooting)
Opened (L&SWR/District to Putney)
Opened (SR to Sutton)
Closed (Railtrack to Croydon)
Reopened (Tramlink to Croydon)
Transport for London
List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
* based on sales of tickets in 2004/05 financial year which end or originate at this station. Disclaimer (PDF)
Portal:Wimbledon station
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Wimbledon station is a National Rail, London Underground, and Tramlink station located in Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton. The station serves as a junction for services from London Underground District Line and National Rail operators South West Trains, First Capital Connect and Tramlink Route 1. Some early morning services on the First Capital Connect route are provided by Southern. The station is in Travelcard Zone 3.

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[edit] History

The first railway station in Wimbledon was opened on 21 May 1838 when the London & South Western Railway (L&SWR) opened its line from its terminus at Nine Elms in Battersea to Woking. The original station was to the south of the current station on the opposite side of the Wimbledon Bridge.

On 22 October 1855 the Wimbledon & Croydon Railway (W&CR) opened its line from Wimbledon to West Croydon via Mitcham and on 1 October 1868 the Tooting, Merton & Wimbledon Railway (TM&WR) opened a line to Tooting Junction (now just Tooting station).

On 3 June 1889 the Metropolitan District Railway (now London Underground's District Line) opened the extension of its line from Putney Bridge, making Wimbledon station the new terminus of that branch and providing Wimbledon with a direct connection to the developing London Underground system. The station was rebuilt on its current site for the opening of this service.

District Line steam-hauled services were replaced by an electric services from 27 August 1905. Mainline suburban services were gradually replaced by electric rolling stock either side of the first world war although long distance journeys continued to use steam-haulage until much later.

The station was rebuilt again with its current Portland stone entrance building by the Southern Railway (SR, the post Grouping successor to the L&SWR) in the late 1920s as part of the SR's construction of the line to Sutton. Parliamentary approval for this line had been obtained by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1910 but work had never been carried out and it was only after the City and South London Railway (precursor to London Underground's Northern Line) made proposals to use part of the route to continue that line to Sutton that the SR was encouraged to build the line itself to protect its passenger services from the Sutton hub. The Wimbledon to Sutton line, one of the last to be built in the London area, opened on 5 January 1930 and was an electrified service from the outset.

On 2 June 1997 the Wimbledon to West Croydon line was closed by Railtrack for conversion to operation as part of the Tramlink tram operations. Part of platform 10 was utilised for the single track terminus of tramlink route 1 and rail tracks and infrastructure were replaced with those for the tram system. The new service opened on 30 May 2000. The other part of platform 10 is currently used as a terminus for First Capital Connect services.

[edit] Future

If Crossrail Line 2 is built, one of the route options involves taking over the Wimbledon branch of the District Line as far as Parsons Green, and routing trains via Chelsea and central London to Hackney and on to Leytonstone tube station and beyond. This would provide another set of transport links for the area.

There is also a proposal for an extension of the Tramlink services running from Wimbledon to Sutton via Morden, St. Helier and Rose Hill. This scheme would require some rearrangement of platforms and tracks within the station as the single platform currently in use would not be able to handle the additional traffic.

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak service frequency is:

[edit] Trivia

  • Wimbledon station is the only London station that provides an interchange between rail, underground and tramlink services
  • Wimbledon station was the most southerly point on the Underground system until the nearby Morden Underground station opened in 1926
  • Part of the route of the W&CR through Mitcham reused the route of the Surrey Iron Railway that had closed in 1846

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Haydons Road   First Capital Connect   Wimbledon Chase
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