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Battersea Power Station is proposed to be the new terminus
Proposed site of Nine Elms station, currently a car park

The Northern line extension to Battersea is a proposed privately funded extension of the London Underground to Battersea in South London by extending the Northern line to Battersea Power Station from Template:LUL stations. The extension would form a continuation of the Template:LUL stations branch of the line. Battersea would be the new southern terminus, extending the line from Kennington with a new station at Nine Elms on Wandsworth Road.[1][2]. It would be in Travelcard Zone 2.

Nine Elms tube station[1] may be situated by the junction of Wandsworth Road and Wilcox Road, at a site that is currently used as a car park for the Nine Elms branch of Sainsburys.[3] However a May 2010 consultation put forward four proposals (two slightly different locations for Nine Elms, an interchange at Template:LUL stations station (for the Victoria line) instead and a direct link with no in between station.[4] In addition to serving the mostly residential communities, the Nine Elms would also provide improved access for the nearby New Covent Garden Market and the proposed new Embassy of the United States in London[5].

The extension is proposed as a privately-funded project by the site developers, Treasury Holdings with contributions from other sources such as the new US embassy. If given planning permission, it is expected to be open by 2015. TfL are investigating the possibility of obtaining public funds to extend this branch to Clapham Junction station (one of just two major railway stations in London currently isolated from the tube network, the other being East Croydon), with an intermediary station somewhere in between, however it is merely proposed and may not be delivered at the same time as the Battersea station, if at all. The extension may be in conjunction with the proposed split of the Northern line that is proposed to take place if Template:LUL stations station can be rebuilt.

References

  1. ^ a b "Battersea Power Station: A Sustainable Transport Solution". Retrieved 2009-07-19.
  2. ^ Rowson, Jessica (2008-06-26). "Battersea Power Station's £4bn plan to hinge on Tube extension". New Civil Engineer. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
  3. ^ "London Reconnections: Taking the Northern Line to Battersea". Retrieved 2009-07-19.
  4. ^ http://www.dragondark.co.uk/lr/leafletcampaign.pdf
  5. ^ "An Embassy for the future - Nine Elms and the new US Embassy". Retrieved 2009-07-19.

51°28′49″N 0°08′25″W / 51.4803°N 0.1403°W / 51.4803; -0.1403

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