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Wimbledon

A station of 1838 on the London and South Western Railway’s main line, resited in 1881 and rebuilt for the District Railway’s arrival in 1889, where National Rail, the District line and the trams meet.

11Platforms
1838Opened
13.2 millionEntries and exits (2024-25)
36thBusiest station in Britain (2024-25)

Platforms 11

Platform plan, to scale from OpenStreetMap12345678910Platform 1. About 520 ft (158 m) long, off OpenStreetMapPlatform 2. About 520 ft (157 m) long, off OpenStreetMapPlatform 3. About 550 ft (169 m) long, off OpenStreetMapPlatform 4. About 560 ft (169 m) long, off OpenStreetMapPlatform 5. About 670 ft (203 m) long, off OpenStreetMapPlatform 6. About 670 ft (203 m) long, off OpenStreetMapPlatform 7. About 670 ft (203 m) long, off OpenStreetMapPlatform 8. About 670 ft (203 m) long, off OpenStreetMapPlatform 9. About 500 ft (152 m) long, off OpenStreetMapPlatform 10. About 500 ft (152 m) long, off OpenStreetMapN100 ft (30 m)Platforms, tracks and outline © OpenStreetMap contributors

Seen from above, to scale: the platforms, tracks and the station building’s outline (the grey line) from OpenStreetMap, the lines running roughly north-east to south-west. North is marked top left, and the scale bottom left. Point at a platform for its number and length.

Facts

Opened
21 May 1838 by the London and South Western Railway; resited east of Wimbledon Bridge on 21 November 1881
Platforms
11: 1 to 4 District line, 5 to 9 National Rail, 10a and 10b Tramlink
Routes
South Western Main Line suburban services, the Sutton Loop, the District line’s Wimbledon branch, and Tramlink to Croydon
Underground
District
Operators
South Western Railway, Thameslink, London Underground, London Trams
Trams
Tramlink to Croydon, Beckenham Junction and Elmers End
Managed by
South Western Railway
Listed
No listing found (not confirmed)
Interchanges
0.92 million (2024-25)

unverified Some of these figures haven’t yet been checked against an official source or a published history. What’s in doubt ↓

Trains

The trains the operators run here, as the sources give them.

History 8

  1. The London and South Western Railway’s line is opened to the public; the first Wimbledon station is on it.
  2. The Wimbledon and Croydon Railway is officially opened, giving a line to West Croydon.
  3. The station is rebuilt on the east side of Wimbledon Bridge and opens there.
  4. The District Railway opens its Wimbledon branch to District trains only; London and South Western trains follow on 1 July 1889.
  5. Southern Railway work on the Wimbledon–Sutton line begins from the Wimbledon end.
  6. The West Croydon to Wimbledon railway line closes for conversion to Tramlink.
  7. Tramlink’s Wimbledon stop opens, using the platform formerly used by Wimbledon–West Croydon trains.
  8. A new tram platform opens, allowing 12 trams an hour on the Wimbledon–Croydon route.

Sources 12

Show the 12 sources from Transport for London, Office of Rail and Road, National Rail Enquiries and 6 more

Where the sources disagree:

  • Platform count (11) and the numbering by operator (1–4 District, 5–9 National Rail, 10a and 10b Tramlink) are from Wikipedia only; no National Rail, TfL or Network Rail page opened gives platform numbers.
  • The Southern Railway’s Portland stone entrance building of the late 1920s, and its year, are from Wikipedia only; no architect was found.
  • Wikipedia also gives a renaming to ‘Wimbledon’ on 1 June 1909 and District electrification on 27 August 1905; both are left out of the history as Wikipedia-only.
  • Wikipedia gives 21 May 1838 as the date the first station opened, on the south side of Wimbledon Bridge. Merton Historical Society says only that the line opened to the public that day, and describes the original station as in the fields between Wimbledon and Merton.
  • The 2 June 1997 closure of the West Croydon–Wimbledon line comes from a search-result summary of a thetrams.co.uk page and from Wikipedia; the tram-stop page itself, when opened, gave 30 May 2000 and the platform’s earlier railway use but not the closure date.
  • Listing status: not found; Historic England’s site was not opened.
  • Fleet allocation: Class 700 on the Sutton Loop is from Network Rail’s 2016 release (introduction planned for later in 2016). The Class 450 (a Wikipedia note of a 2017 derailment near Wimbledon) and Class 701 (a 701/0 delivered to Wimbledon, in the rolling-stock record) are not confirmed as Wimbledon station services by an operator source. The District’s S7 Stock is from the rolling-stock record. The tram types are from the rolling-stock record (the Variobahn entry names Wimbledon).
  • Routes beyond the South Western Main Line, Sutton Loop, District and Tramlink (Wikipedia lists Chessington South, Shepperton, Hampton Court, Dorking, Guildford, Woking and others) are not confirmed by an operator source.
  • Wikipedia gives Wimbledon as 7 miles 19 chains from Waterloo and DfT category B; neither is used here.
  • ORR gives South Western Railway as facility owner; the National Rail page confirms South Western Railway as manager. TfL’s API gives fare zone 3.
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