On Aug 11, 2:00*am, Tony Dragon wrote:
Alistair Bell wrote:

(3) Create a flat junction south of Morden South and run onto Network
Rail metals to Sutton. Chances are the Health and Safety people would
scream blue murder due to the different platform heights though.

To say nothing about the different heights of Morden South Station & the
Northern Line.

I don't think that's a big deal. There's more than enough room to
climb alongside the depot.

(4) Fix the platform heights in (3) and make Morden-Sutton exclusively
a Northern Line service. Extend Tramlink from Wimbledon to a new
interchange station at Central Road (or, indeed, to St Helier, with
Tramlink potentially continuing on Wrythe Lane through Carshalton and
back to Croydon by a different route)

What would serve South Merton & Wimbledon Chase?

Tramlink. Either a tag-end service from Wimbledon to Wimbledon Chase,
South Merton, Morden South and St Helier, or a second Wimbledon-
Croydon route. Having thought about it again, I suspect the actual
answer would be a Wimbledon-St Helier-Rose Hill-Sutton High Street
service, possibly continuing to Croydon onstreet.

I'm not saying any of this would be all that cheap (fer cryin' out
loud, look how much we spent on the supposedly simple East London
Line) but it probably _is_ cheap enough to be feasible if it's
desirable. (Not in the current Coalition 'let's slash everything'
mindset, of course.)