Ampere Way Tram Stop
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Ampere Way Tram Stop
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 11 Feb 2020
A new station on an old route, this was originally a conventional line built by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. It was converted to a tramway with many new stops, including here, which takes its name from one of the nearby streets with electrical names commemorating a large power station which used to be nearby. The Wikipedia entry for this stop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere_Way_tram_stop is brief but contains the following trivia snippet. "The station was renamed IKEA Ampere Way under a sponsorship deal on 18 October 2006, in order to promote the stop's location near IKEA's Croydon store. By March 2008, the station had reverted to its former name."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.382249
Longitude
-0.12384