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| SWR 455 870 on platform 8 |
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| Type: | National Rail
(South Western Main Line & Thameslink) Transport for London (District Line & Tramlink) |
| Station code: | WIM |
| Opened: | 1838 |
| Platforms: | 9 (+ 2 Tramlink) |
The first station, known as Wimbledon & Merton, was opened by the London & South Western Railway in 1838, this station was the opposite side of Wimbledon Bridge, slightly to the South of the current station [1]. The District Railway extended it's line from Putney Bridge in 1889 building a terminus. The original Wimbledon station was rebuilt on the current site. Some years earlier in 1855 the Wimbledon & Croydon Railway opened a line from Wimbledon to West Croydon, since 2000 this line has been part of Tramlink. The station was renamed Wimbledon in 1909.
The Southern Railway rebuilt the station in the the 1920s [2]. Made from Portland stone, this is still the main building of the station. The station has eleven platforms [3]. Four are for District Line services which terminate at Wimbledon. Two platforms are for suburban rail services, one for Thameslink. Two platforms are retained for outer suburban services though tend to be used mostly during the Wimbledon tennis championships. There are also two platforms for Tramlink.
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| Thameslink 700 004 |
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| View down the platform, towards the signalbox |
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| Tramlink 2543 waits to depart |
[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 169
[2] John Scott Morgan, London Underground in Colour (Ian Allan, 2013) p. 20
[3] John C Gillham, Wimbledon to Beckenham (Middleton Press, 2001) Fig. 2
