Thread: Tramlink doubling - Mitcham to Mitcham Junction
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Old May 18th 12, 01:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Tramlink doubling - Mitcham to Mitcham Junction
On Fri, 18 May 2012 08:05:04 -0500,
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On Fri, 18 May 2012 12:32:48 +0100, "Paul Scott"
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"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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Correct - it's my understanding that improved frequency is the reason
for the double tracking. I think the long term plan is to restore
double track on all of the Wimbledon line but Wimbledon station is a
particular problem.

Especially when you consider that the existing platform is also down for
changes in the London and SE RUS's proposal for 5 tracking the SWML from
from Surbiton; i.e. Thameslink will be displaced onto the current tram
platform.

No indications of where they'd move the trams, but some people might be
pleased if it removed the confusion about Oyster PAYG once and for all.
(As discussed here in uk.t.l now and again.)

Is there any possibility of bringing it up to street level or are the
roads in that area too crowded already?

Where, though? The road layout at Wimbledon station doesn't seem too
suitable or accessible from the Tramlink approach to me.

I was thinking from further back on the line, well before the bridge
(eg, up Hartfield Road or Crescent, perhaps one-way up one road and
back down another). The double track section starts some distance from
the station, so getting people to walk to new platforms from the
existing station wouldn't go down well, eg, see the waiting tram in
this view: http://binged.it/J2xrXQ
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