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The Surprise Contender: Sutton Tramlink. Our look at how Croydon Tramlink is expected to develop by 2. In the early 2. 02. To understand both why and to where, we really need to look at another proposal – one for a short, simple tram network to serve the Sutton and Morden area. We want one too! It was not long after Croydon Tramlink opened, or perhaps even slightly before, that the neighbouring borough of Sutton first seriously proposed a scheme of its own.
There was a very obvious potential route. This would have gone from Sutton Station via the town centre northwards to Rose Hill roundabout.
Rose Hill roundabout is a major six road roundabout with a local parade of shops. Early photo of Croydon tram, courtesy Graham Feakins. The London Borough of Sutton’s proposals must have been germinated even before Croydon Tramlink was opened because at least one tram of the original Croydon trams on delivery already had a blind available for the future possible route. Various non- existent routes were included on the blinds.
This was not so much for the purpose of actually using them along the route in question but for publicity purposes in order to bring awareness of possibilities of future extensions. Carto Metro showing an area of London that does not have a good heavy rail service. Whilst not strictly located in the middle of a “rail desert,” the only nearby rail service is the half- hourly and unreliable Thameslink Loop service. From Rose Hill roundabout there is a wide dual carriageway that continues north through a classic 1.
Morden Road tram stop. Here the Tram would have taken advantage of the existing route and enhanced the original 6tph service to Wimbledon by doubling it to 1. A parasitic scheme. The scheme, as originally envisaged, was intended to piggy- back off Croydon Tramlink and use the existing depot at Therapia Lane, which would have needed to be enhanced, as well as use other existing resources.
The length of new tramway thus required would have only been around 5km and it would have taken advantage of approximately 2km of existing route. Google Map centred on Rose Hill Roundabout. There is always a problem.
A potential problem with the initial scheme was that the Wimbledon station tram stop could not handle 1. Free Man In The Red Bandana (2017) Online here. At the time providing a second tram platform at Wimbledon station was not really an option because it would have required the abandonment of the rest of the rail platform that had been ceded to Tramlink.
Platform 1. 0 was by then only a 4- car terminating platform, but was still useful for terminating a 3. Thameslink unit when necessary. As a result its continued existence was jealously guarded by the railway. Various ways of resolving this were discussed. Suggestions included a short town centre section in Wimbledon that would involve street running. This would be used by the Sutton trams.
An alternative idea was to abandon the tram stop in the station entirely and reroute all trams to Wimbledon into a new terminus “upstairs”. The lack of a satisfactory solution to the issue of getting the Sutton trams into the heart of Wimbledon was a major problem for promoters of the scheme – mainly Sutton and Merton councils – and it was probably this, rather than anything else, that caused the scheme to lie dormant for many years. This wasn’t the only issue with the scheme though. There were additional problems with the Sutton Tramlink idea.
The crossing on the level of the Kingston Road (A2. Merton Park tram stop would potentially cause issues with a doubling of trams at a time when it might have been more difficult than today to argue the case for giving priority to them. More seriously, with the Wimbledon problem unresolved, it seemed a far more attractive proposition to concentrate on a plan to extend Tramlink to Crystal Palace. This was in part because there would be much less street running to Crystal Palace and more potential to use existing railway alignments – which was more in keeping with the original Tramlink scheme.
Only very recently has the north end of platform 1. Wimbledon been given over to Tramlink.
As passenger traffic grew on the tram route from Croydon to Wimbledon it increasingly became clear that any spare capacity would be wanted to bolster existing services. The possibility of providing additional capacity at Wimbledon station was now a possibility as the Thameslink stock serving Wimbledon would be fixed 8- car trains and platform 1. However, it was clear that any extra tram capacity would be fully used up providing a better service to Croydon. To get around the problem of Sutton trams going to Wimbledon there was at one point the rather bizarre suggestion of sending the Sutton trams to Croydon once they had reached Morden Road. This would have effectively involved a 1. In Croydon it was proposed that they would terminate by going around a new small loop on the west side of the town to avoid overloading the town centre loop.
This loop was always known to have limited capacity without causing severe knock- on effects to other traffic (including buses). No space at the depot. A further problem for Sutton Tramlink promoters was that the presumed spare capacity at the existing depot wouldn’t exist if Croydon Tramlink purchased new trams for the more intensive service they were planning to eventually operate. There was no obvious possible location for even a small depot (or stabling yard) between Sutton and Morden Road tram stop.
It was clear that the idea of Sutton Tramlink was stalling and the main problem was Wimbledon. It seems that those in favour of the scheme saw Wimbledon as a main objective and those promoting the idea were extremely reluctant to abandon this until there really was no hope of realising this goal. Realistically, this moment must have come at the point Tf.
L committed to providing a 1. Croydon and Wimbledon. New tram systems apparently out of favour. Sometimes it is little throwaway comments that help build up a picture.
In the past eighteen months there have been a couple of comments during period when there was much debate over the Bakerloo Line extension that suggested that new tram systems were definitely out of favour. Sir Peter Hendy had openly questioned the purpose of extending the trams to Crystal Palace. Given that this was about the only tram scheme that Tf. L was believed to have any enthusiasm for, it seemed at the time to suggest that we weren’t going to see any more route miles any time soon. In a further blow, he queried the motivation behind tram schemes and suggested that they were sometimes pushed not because they fulfilled a transport need but because they fitted some other aspiration. Neither the idea of reviving a town centre (such as Sutton) nor the Sutton Tramlink scheme were explicitly mentioned, but it was hard to see any other scheme at which those thoughts might have been directed. More notoriously, Leon Daniels, Head of Surface Transport, when asked at a conference on the future of buses, dismissed Sutton Tramlink in particular and more trams routes in general.
His emphatic statement was, as it turns out, perhaps a bit ill- advised. Currently trams fall under the remit of Rail and not Surface Transport and it may have been the case that he just was not up- to- date with the latest thinking of his colleagues.
A new destination. It seems that, eventually, the scheme’s backers finally accepted that pushing for a tram scheme from Sutton to Wimbledon was just not going to get anywhere. When looking for an alternative to Wimbledon there was a surprisingly obvious one. More surprisingly still it appeared never to have been suggested before. The proposed route and alternatives as offered at the initial local consultation. The alternative suggested was that trams from Sutton heading north would not join the existing tracks to Wimbledon but simply continue to head north along the Morden Road to South Wimbledon instead.
The Morden Road is very wide and looks as if it can easily accommodate two segregated tram tracks.