Wimbledon Park tube station

Wimbledon Park
Wimbledon Park Location of Wimbledon Park in Greater London
Location	Wimbledon Park
Local authority	London Borough of Merton
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	2.00 million[1]
2012	2.11 million[1]
2013	2.13 million[1]
2014	1.81 million[1]
Key dates
3 June 1889	Opened (DR)
1 July 1889	Started (L&SWR)
1941	Ended (SR)
1994	Transferred to LUL
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°26′02″N 0°12′00″W / 51.434°N 0.200°W

A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Wimbledon Park railway station.

Wimbledon Park is a London Underground station in Wimbledon. The station is on the District line and is between Southfields and Wimbledon stations. The station is located on Arthur Road close to the junction with Melrose Avenue close to the eastern side of Wimbledon Park. It is about 200 m west of Durnsford Road (A218) and is in Travelcard Zone 3.

History

The station was opened by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on 3 June 1889 on an extension from Putney Bridge 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 from a connection at East Putney to its Clapham Junction to Barnes line.

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.

Main line services through Wimbledon Park were ended by the Southern Railway (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.The route from Wimbledon to Wandsworth Town (Point Pleasant Junction) is still used by South West Trains for empty stock movements and occasional service train diversions, as well as three daily South West Trains services which run to and from Waterloo via the route in the early hours of the morning, so South West Trains trains pass through Wimbledon Park station on a daily basis, but without any stopping. There are very infrequent movements of Network Rail engineering trains and light engine movements through the station as well.

On 18 June 2012, Surrey cricketer Tom Maynard was hit and killed by a London Underground train while trying to escape from police near Wimbledon Park station.^[2][3]

Connections

London Buses route 156 serve the station.

Past plans

Wimbledon Park was a proposed stop on the Chelsea-Hackney Line, now known as Crossrail 2. It was envisioned that the station's District line services would have been replaced by the new line.

See also

• List of London Underground stations

References

1. "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
2. "Cricketer Tom Maynard dies after being hit by London Underground train". BBC News. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
3. Scott-Elliott, Robin (18 June 2012). "Surrey cricketer Tom Maynard dies after being hit by London Underground train after trying to escape police". The Independent (London). Retrieved 6 August 2012.

External links

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Wimbledon Park station with British Rail signage, 1982
  • Wimbledon Park station, 2001