East Putney tube station

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East Putney
Location
Place	Putney
Local authority	Wandsworth
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Transport for London
Zone	2/3
Annual entry/exit	5.121 million †
History
1889 1889 1941	Opened (MDR) Started (L&SWR) Ended (SR)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

East Putney is a London Underground station in Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The station is on the District Line and is between Southfields and Putney Bridge stations. The station is located on Upper Richmond Road (A205). It is on the border of Travelcard Zone 2 and Travelcard Zone 3.

1 History
2 Station Layout
3 Image gallery
4 External links

[edit] History

The station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now the District Line) on 3 June 1889 on an extension from Putney Bridge station to Wimbledon. The extension was built by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) which, starting on 1 July 1889, ran its own trains over the line via an eastward-facing loop that joins the Clapham Junction to Barnes mainline.

The section of the District Line from Putney Bridge to Wimbledon was the last part of the line to be converted from steam operation to electric. Electric trains began running on 27 August 1905.

Mainline services through East Putney were ended by the Southern Railway (SR, successor to the L&SWR) on 4 May 1941, although the line remained in British Rail ownership until 1 April 1994 when it was transferred to London Underground. Until the transfer, the station was branded as a British Rail station.

[edit] Station Layout

The junction between the District Line tracks and what is now the National Rail loop to the main line is immediately to the south of the station. Two pairs of tracks (one pair for each operator) run through the station giving it a narrow Y-shape arrangement with a shared central island platform and two separate platforms across the tracks for opposite. The station entrance and buildings are positioned between the two arms of the Y. The isolated National Rail platform is disused and overgrown. The National Rail platform on the central island is in working order, but is not served by trains. A barrier has been built on the central island platrom across the part of the platform that forks off to the north-east and forms the right arm of the Y.

The station has four staircases. The staircase to the disused National Rail platform is not accessable to the public, but the two staircases up to the island platform are both in service.

Although no longer used for passenger services, the National Rail connection to the Clapham Junction line remains in place and is still used periodically to transfer trains to the Wimbledon Traincare depot. North of the station, the eastbound tracks of the branch formerly crossed over the tracks of the Clapham Junction line via a bridge then ran parallel with the main line on a viaduct for some distance before merging with the tracks at a junction to the east of Putney Bridge Road (A3209). This link is no longer used and connections are made by the former westbound branch track which operates two-way running. The deck of the unused bridge has been removed although the central piers and the abutments of the viaduct remain.