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Tom Anderson · October 26th 07, 04:56 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, wrote:

On Oct 25, 9:26 pm, Terry Harper wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:17:04 +0100, Tom Anderson

wrote:

It frequently strikes me, when considering the geography of the terra
incognita called 'South London', that there is an amazingly large region
with no railway stations in the Walworth area.

Isn't this down to the tram network that existed in South London, which
limited penetration by the Underground and also overground railways?

Perhaps. There was certainly a tram route along the Old Kent Road. But
surely the main age of growth of the railways was before the age of trams?

Maybe a tram map from c.1900 might help?

Good idea. I don't have one to hand, but next time i come across one, i
shall examine it.

It's also an area that will benefit from the Crossriver tram if that
ever gets off the ground. Though a station at Camberwell Green (and
perhaps another at Walworth) on the Blackfriars line would also be
welcome.

Absolutely. But even then, there's a huge railless region to the east of
that line.

That area is actually pretty well served by buses, though.

Oh, of course. I wasn't saying there was no public transport in that area,
just nothing that goes on rails. The Old Kent Road is a bus superhighway.
This must be a response to the lack of trains, rather than a cause for it,
though - there's no reason you couldn't have had bus services like that in
Islington or something, where plenty of railways got built.

tom

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