Category Archives: Sutton Link

Let’s build new tram lines with routes where people want to go

Posted on June 16, 2020 by insidecroydon

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The ‘Fantasy Tram Network’ map, showing the various undeveloped extensions and new destinations which have been spurned over the past 20 years, underlines the desperate need for better public transport in south London, says STEPHEN SPARK Thanks for … Continue reading →

Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, Sutton Link, TfL, Tramlink, Transport | 5 Comments

What might have been: how Croydon Trams should have grown

Posted on June 13, 2020 by insidecroydon

Have you ever wondered what the Croydon Tram network might look like if the Crystal Palace extension, or the much-talked-about Sutton line, had ever been built? Loyal reader Anthony Norris-Watson certainly, and he put together something which Ken Livingstone or … Continue reading →

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Tories play politics over covid emergency funding for TfL

Posted on May 15, 2020 by insidecroydon

The emergency cash bail-out for London’s transport system sees the capital’s Labour Mayor hand much control to the Tories running the government, reports WALTER CRONXITE The Tories have put political point-scoring ahead of public health, after the government last night … Continue reading →

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Author tracks 20 years of history with Croydon Tramlink

Posted on April 22, 2020 by insidecroydon

KEN TOWL reviews an extensive and exhaustive new book about the local light rail network, which opened for service in May 2000 As former ITN newsreader and “The Voice of Tramlink”, Nicholas Owen notes in his foreword that the transport … Continue reading →

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TfL backs Sutton Tram Link – but lacks £420m to pay for it

Posted on February 11, 2020 by insidecroydon

Transport for London has plumped for a tram extension that links Sutton town centre with the Northern Line Tube at Colliers Wood. But they just don’t have the £420million needed to pay for it just yet. The outcome of a … Continue reading →

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