An excellent evenings session spent at Wimbledon station on the South Western Mainline where we see plenty of services from South Western Railway, Thameslink, London Underground and the Croydon Tramlink.
Wimbledon recieved its first station in 1838 when the London and South Western Railway opened it up, this was built on the opposite side of the Wimbledon bridge.
In 1855 the Wimbledon and Croydon Railway opened the West Croydon to Wimbledon Line to West Croydon via Mitcham. And in the same month of the very next year the Tooting, Merton and Wimbledon line was opened.
In 1889 the District Railway opened the extension of its line running from Putney Bridge which gave Wimbledon a direct link to the ever growing London Underground Network, this also meant that Wimbledon was now the terminus of the line.
Wimbledon station was rebuilt on its current site in 1910 but wasn't completed until 1920 because the war taking place, fundamentally not a great deal has actually changed, the station layout remains the same. The main station entrance hasn't changed all that much. Aside from the modernisation that he taken place such as the introduction of the third rail, various station displays and lifts being installed.
In 1997 the West Croydon to Wimbledon Line was closed by Railtrack for it to be converted for part of the Tramlink operations which are running to this day, the new service was officially opened in May 2000, in 2015 platform 10 was split into two parts which would allow for greater frequency of trams to use the station.
Last year the station took on average 18.5 million passengers.
My next station is Earslfield.
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Негізгі бет Автокөліктер мен көлік құралдары Trains at: Wimbledon, SWML, 23/11/19
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