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Carlton Drive, LONDON, SW15 2BU

A train on London Underground's District Line leaving East Putney station heading to Wimbledon, in snow.

Carlton Drive passing Mercier Road

East Putney is the junction of the London Underground District line and the Network Rail (formerly London and South Western Railway) link from the Windsor lines to the South Western main line near Wimbledon. The latter is now single track and is only normally used for empty stock workings to and from East Wimbledon depot, hence the overgrown state of the far platform. For a good many years, the line between here and Wimbledon was owned by British Rail despite the passenger train service being provided almost exclusively by the Underground, hence the Network SouthEast signage and decor in Image By 2007, ownership of the line from here to a point just south of Wimbledon Park station had passed to the Underground, although in 2014 it was still signalled by Network Rail equipment controlled from Wimbledon.

View northward, LT District Line leftwards towards Central London and Upminster, also High Street Kensington and Edgware Road. Rightwards are the ex-LSWR lines to Clapham Junction and Waterloo: the platforms on that line were closed from 5/5/41 when the regular local services by that route ceased, but diverted through trains and especially empty stock used the loop, joining the Windsor Lines at Point Pleasant Junction; the Up line of this loop had just been closed (2/91) and the Down line resignalled for reversible working.

Looking south. A train of D78 District Line stock has just left, bound for Wimbledon.

Opened in 1889 jointly by the Metropolitan District Railway on the line from Wimbledon to Earls Court, and the London & South Western Railway. View north towards Putney Bridge and Earls Court, which is now the District Line. Like 55% of the London Underground network, this part is actually overground. The platforms to the far right were used by LSWR trains from Wimbledon to Clapham Junction via Wandsworth Town, but have not been in regular service since April 1941. The line is however used regularly by through 'mainline' trains.

It is on the Wimbledon branch of the District Line, between Putney Bridge and Southfields, and is on the boundary between Travelcard Zones 2 and 3. The entrance to the station is on Upper Richmond Road.

This station is served by trains of London Transport's District Line, between Edgware Road and Wimbledon, or between Wimbledon and Mansion House and points east thereof. The line on the extreme right is a seldom-used National Rail spur which links to Clapham Junction.

The Court is located on the north side of the Upper Richmond Road (the A205 South Circular Road), just to the east (as evidenced by the sign!) of East Putney tube station.

The station dates from 1889 and was originally built by the Metropolitan Railway. It is in the centre of a Y-shaped arrangement of elevated railways. The railway on the east side of the Y is now disused, and District Line trains use the elevated route in the photograph which forms the western arm of the Y. The words 'East Putney' can just be picked out in relief at the top of the white buttress on the right. The van belongs to Tube Lines, yet another body with responsibility for running some part of the railway infrastructure, in this case providing maintenance services for trains and infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines...