South Wimbledon tube station

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South Wimbledon
Location
Place	Wimbledon
Local authority	London Borough of Merton

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	3 and 4
2005 annual usage	3.119 million †
2007 annual usage	3.72 million †
History
1926	Opened (C&SLR)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

South Wimbledon tube station is a London Underground station in South London. The station is on the Northern Line, between Colliers Wood and Morden stations. It is located on the corner of Merton High Street (A238) and Morden Road (A219). It is on the boundary between Travelcard Zone 3 and Zone 4.

1 History
2 Transport connections
3 See also
4 External links
5 Further reading

[edit] History

The station was designed by Charles Holden and was opened on 13 September 1926 as part of the Morden extension of the City & South London Railway (now part of the Northern Line).

South Wimbledon station is not actually in Wimbledon but was given this name as it was thought that Wimbledon had a higher social standing than its actual location of Merton. For geographical accuracy, the station was originally named South Wimbledon (Merton) and it appeared as such on early underground maps and on the original station platform signage (although not on the station building at street level). The "(Merton)" part of the name gradually fell out of use.

[edit] Transport connections

The following London Buses routes serve the station (frequencies are for weekday off-peak):

57 (Kingston-Streatham Hill) every 8 minutes
93 (North Cheam-Putney) every 7-8 minutes
131 (Kingston-Tooting Broadway) every 8-12 minutes
152 (New Malden-Pollards Hill) evey 12 minutes
219 (Wimbledon-Clapham Junction) every 12 minutes
470 (Epsom-Colliers Wood) every 30 minutes

Several Tramlink route 3 stop are also within walking distance, or along bus routes 57, 93, 131 and 219 (for Wimbledon Station), 152 (for Merton Park tram stop) and 93 for (Morden Road tram stop).