North Cheam tube station
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| North Cheam | |
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 Duplication of tunnels on the Morden branch and extension to North Cheam proposed in 1946 | |
| Location | Sutton |
| Owner | Never built |
| Railway companies | |
| Original company | Northern line |
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North Cheam was a proposed London Underground station. It would have been the southern terminus of the Northern line and would have usurped Morden as the most southerly station on the network. The next station would have been Morden South. It would have been located on London Road in North Cheam in south-west London.
Background
The Northern line began life as an amalgamation of the City and South London Railway and Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway; the City and South London Railway opened in November 1890 running north from Stockwell,[1] and was extended in 1900 to Clapham Common[2] and in 1926 to Morden.[3] It might well have been extended to Sutton, via the then-unbuilt Wimbledon and Sutton Railway, however objections from Southern Railway that said route constituted an "invasion" of the territory allocated to them under the 1923 grouping of railways prevented Northern line trains from running any further south. Nonetheless, Morden remains the most southerly station on the network.[4]
In 1946, a report on London's railways to the Ministry of War Transport detailed possible new routes and rail lines for the London Underground, including the Victoria line and a route that would serve similar stations to Crossrail.[5] The same report recommended extending the Northern line to North Cheam, contingent on doubling the tracks between Kennington and Tooting Broadway such that Charing Cross trains would terminate at Tooting Broadway, and with an intermediate station at Morden South tube station. Both proposals would each have cost £1,500,000.[6] It would have occupied the site of what was then a Granada cinema on London Road in North Cheam, which was opened in 1937 and closed in 1969; one half was demolished to make way for a Sainsbury's supermarket, and the other half of which is now a Wetherspoon's. However, as the doubling of tracks did not happen, the extension to North Cheam could not take place.[7]
References
- ^ Day, John R; Reed, John (2008) [1963]. The Story of London's Underground. Capital Transport. p. 42. ISBN 1-85414-316-6.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Day, John R; Reed, John (2008) [1963]. The Story of London's Underground. Capital Transport. p. 44. ISBN 1-85414-316-6.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Day, John R; Reed, John (2008) [1963]. The Story of London's Underground. Capital Transport. p. 96. ISBN 1-85414-316-6.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Jackson, Alan A. (December 1966). The Wimbledon & Sutton Railway – A late arrival on the South London suburban scene (PDF). p. 678. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help); Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ "Revealed: This TfL Tube map from 1946 shows how London Underground could have looked". Evening Standard. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ Report to the Ministry of War Transport. Railway (London Plan) Committee. 1946.
- ^ Eyles, Allen (1998). The Granada Theatres. Cinema Theatre Association. p. 85.
Bibliography
- Eyles, Allen (1998). The Granada Theatres, p. 85. Cinema Theatre Association.
- Ministry of War Transport (1946). Report to the Ministry of War Transport 21st January, 1946. Railway (London Plan) Committee
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