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Tramlink serves seven National Rail stations and has one interchange with the London Underground, at Wimbledon station for the District Line, and one with London Overground, at West Croydon for the East London Line ; one of the factors leading to its creation was that the area around Croydon has no Underground service.
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Tramlink and serves
The station serves as a junction for services from London Underground's District line and National Rail operators ( South West Trains and First Capital Connect ), as well as Tramlink route 3.
Tramlink and National
Mitcham Junction is a National Rail station served by First Capital Connect and Southern trains, and a Tramlink stop.
Wimbledon station is a National Rail, London Underground, and Tramlink station located in Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton, and is the only London station that provides an interchange between rail, Underground, and Tramlink services.
Travel is free at all times on the Tube, DLR, buses and Tramlink, and after 09: 30 on some National Rail routes within London.
The Travelcard is an inter-modal travel ticket for unlimited use on the London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway, Tramlink, London Buses and National Rail services in the Greater London area.
A Travelcard entitles the holder to unlimited travel in Greater London on London Buses, Tramlink, London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway and National Rail services.
West Croydon station is a transport interchange for National Rail and Tramlink services and London Buses.
Tramlink and Rail
Tramlink runs on a mixture of street track shared with other traffic, dedicated track in public roads, and off-street track consisting of new rights-of-way, former railway lines, and one section of alignment, though not track, shared with a third rail electrified Network Rail line.
The section of Route 3 between Wimbledon and West Croydon follows the old single-track British Rail route for the most part, which was closed on 31 May 1997 so that it could be converted for Tramlink.
119 ( 24hr bus )-Croydon ( The Colonnades ) to Bromley North via Hayes, Shirley, East Croydon Rail and Tramlink, Sandilands and Lebanon Road Tramlink stops ;
This stop and New Addington are the only Tramlink termini with two platforms, as both Wimbledon and Elmers End have one platform face opposite a Network Rail line.
Tramlink and stations
Tramlink uses some former main line stations on the Wimbledon – West Croydon and Elmers End – Coombe Road stretches of line.
There are six platforms in total: two through, two bay, and two Tramlink platforms for Tramlink route 2 services to East Croydon and West Croydon stations.
Stops ( stations ) on the South London Tramlink network.
Tramlink and has
Recently, Croydon Tramlink has been talking about an extension of Route 3 to Biggin Hill but there are no definite plans.
The borough also has several stops on the London Tramlink network.
In common with many other boroughs south of the Thames, Bexley has no London Underground lines or any other London based transport methods like London Tramlink, the Docklands Light Railway or London Overground.
Despite its name, Mitcham Junction no longer has a junction: one of the two lines that crossed here ( the West Croydon to Wimbledon Line ) has become a grade-separated Tramlink route.
A major interchange on Tramlink, East Croydon has three tram platforms, two on an island, the other backing on to the main-line station concourse.
In the past there has been a depository for the Science Museum in the Retail Park area, and Tramlink passes below the Purley Way.
A proposed line alternative through Birkbeck station from Crystal Palace railway station to Beckenham Junction was considered for conversion to a Tramlink route but Transport for London has dropped the plan on the grounds that the existing rail service is adequate.
There has been a recent revival with new networks such as the Croydon Tramlink, Sheffield Supertram, Midland Metro, Edinburgh Trams, Manchester Metrolink and the nearby Nottingham Express Transit being built and extended.
Instead of carrying on to the Brighton Main Line, the line would branch off at Sanderstead and reopen the former railway line, but there is a problem as Croydon Tramlink has taken over the section between Elmers End and Addiscombe.
The space occupied by former bay platform 2, out of use since the Wimbledon service was withdrawn in 1997 and replaced by Tramlink in 2000, has been utilised to extend platform 3, the London-bound platform.
Tramlink and one
Within this section, from near Phipps Bridge to near Reeves Corner, route 3 follows the Surrey Iron Railway, giving Tramlink a claim to the one of the world's oldest railway alignments-beside Mitcham tram stop had its name long before Tramlink.
Tramlink and interchange
The railway platforms have been demolished and rebuilt to Tramlink specifications, except at Elmers End and Wimbledon where the track level was raised to meet the higher main line platforms, to enable cross-platform interchange.
Tramlink and with
In 1990 Croydon Council with the then London Regional Transport ( LRT ) put the project to Parliament and the Croydon Tramlink Act 1994 resulted, which gave LRT the power to build and run Tramlink.
It is situated just to the northeast of central Croydon, and is home to a high proportion of people who commute to Central London, owing to its proximity to the busy East Croydon railway station and Tramlink, linking Addiscombe with other parts of Croydon and Wimbledon, as well as extensive bus routes into Central Croydon and surrounding areas.
* 54 ( Elmers End-Woolwich via Blackheath, Lewisham, Beckenham )-links with Tramlink at Elmers End
Services included trains northwards to London Waterloo, London Victoria and Wimbledon where it connects with the London Underground and Tramlink, and south to Dorking, Horsham, Guildford.
Transport for London were also proposing to extend Tramlink from Harrington Road through Anerley to the bus station on Crystal Palace Parade, with three possible routes.
Part of platform 10 was utilised for the single track terminus of Tramlink route 3 and rail tracks and infrastructure were replaced with those for the tram system.
As London's trams operate on the same fare structure as buses, the rules are similar and users with pre-pay must touch the Oyster card only once at the point of boarding ( users with Travelcards valid for the Tramlink zones need not touch in ).
In January 2012 the new concessionaires, Tramlink Nottingham, announced an intention to replace the on-board conductors with a combination of station-based " ambassadors ", platform-based ticket machines and electronic ticketing.
Immediately outside the front of the station is the Tramlink stop, with services to Elmers End, Beckenham Junction, New Addington and Wimbledon.
The one-platform Tramlink stop opened in 2000, with the rest of route 2 to the Croydon loop.
The two platform Tramlink stop opened in 2000, with the rest of route 2 to the Croydon loop.
The Overground, DLR, Tramlink, and future service Crossrail is shown, as well as the London Underground system, to show how London Rail's services integrate with each other.
He was given the honour to drive the last tram ( before Tramlink returned ) through the constituency with the Mayor of Croydon.
Platforms, with Tramlink bay on left
This heralded a long history of isolation for the estate, then nicknamed Little Siberia, partly remedied 60 years later with the arrival of Tramlink route 3, discussed in the ' Regeneration ' section below.
But perhaps the most important improvement was the arrival of Tramlink ( route 3 ) in 2000, providing a connection with Croydon and Wimbledon in a little over 20 minutes, and from there connections to central London.
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