A find out about to inspect the feasibility of extending London Underground’s Northern Line to Clapham Junction has concluded “there aren’t any bodily engineering or geological constraints” to stop the scheme going forward.
The file via the London Borough of Wandsworth checked out how the Tube line might be prolonged from Battersea Energy Station – terminus of a brand new department of the Northern Line which hooked up to the present community at Kennington, finished in 2021 – to Clapham Junction, the busiest station in Europe via teach numbers.
The feasibility find out about famous that the “tube carrier may draw in further shipping customers, ease overcrowding on present rail and bus products and services and give a boost to further construction within the Clapham Junction space”, and “a Northern Line connecting Clapham Junction to Waterloo may reflect to an extent the carrier already equipped via South Western railway”.
It added that “Delivery for London are… reviewing the safeguarded course for Crossrail 2 – land at Clapham Junction is safeguarded for Crossrail 2 and if Crossrail 2 have been to be resurrected it might supply an instantaneous rail hyperlink between Balham/Tooting, Clapham Junction and Central London”.
Masterplan for Clapham Junction
The council is operating with stakeholders on a Masterplan for Clapham Junction, together with the Higher London Meeting, Delivery for London, Community Rail and landowners. This will likely imagine the shipping connections had to best possible meet the necessities for the world with regards to new houses and jobs, and for the station itself, which is “in critical want of development”.
Wandsworth council has introduced a public session which it says will lend a hand “establish whether or not there’s a robust native feeling in give a boost to of a tube line”.
A course for the proposed extension has been reserved, working from the facility station beneath Battersea Park to Clapham Junction.
It has up to now been estimated that the development value of the extension could be no less than £750m.
