South London Trams

Tramlink, which was funded by a private/public partnership covers 28 km across south London from Wimbledon to Beckenham Junction and was opened in 2000. Tramlink has proved successful and popular, attracting new investment, reducing congestion and helping to increase access to jobs. As a result of this success, there are proposals in the Mayor’s London Plan to extend the network further in south London but funding is needed to develop and build these proposed extensions.  A brochure setting out the case for extensions to Tramlink in south London is available here. More about the extensions can be found on www.tramlinkextensions.co.uk.

An  All Party Parliamentary Group for Light Rail  (APPLRG) was established in 2006. Its aim is to make the case in the UK Parliament and across the UK Government for investment in tram schemes as green, efficient, cost effective mode of transport, capable of answering a high number of requirements in reducing the causes and problems of Climate Change. The APPLRG is supported by twenty MPs and Peers from across the political spectrum with secretariat services provided by  Light Rail (UK) Ltd.