Clapham Junction railway station

{{Short description|Major railway station in London, England}} {{Use British English|date=November 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}} {{redirect|Clapham Junction}} {{Infobox London station | name = Clapham Junction | symbol = overground | symbol2 = rail | image_name = Clapham Junction Railway Station South Western Entrance.jpg | caption = South West (Brighton Yard) entrance | manager = Network Rail | fare_zone = 2 | access = yes | access_note =<ref>[http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/CLJ/details.html National Rail: Clapham Junction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105222201/https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/CLJ/details.html |date=5 November 2020 }} Accessed 7 August 2011</ref> | locale = Battersea | borough = London Borough of Wandsworth | coordinates = {{Coord|type:railwaystation_region:GB|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | events1 = Opened | years1 = 2 March 1863 | platforms = 17 (16 in use) | cyclepark = Yes – external | toilets = Yes – behind gateline  | railexits2021 = {{decrease}} 8.371 | railexits2122 = {{increase}} 17.397 | railexits2223 = {{increase}} 20.790 | railexits2324 = {{increase}} 22.858 | railexits2425 = {{increase}} 24.448  | railint2021 = {{pad|1em}}{{decrease}} 6.824 | railint2122 = {{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 14.794 | railint2223 = {{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 19.091 | railint2324 = {{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 20.383 | railint2425 = {{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 20.404 | railcode = CLJ | dft_category = B }} '''Clapham Junction''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|l|æ|p|əm|_|ˈ|dʒ|ʌ|ŋ|k|ʃ|ə|n}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/clapham-junction |title=Clapham Junction - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes |website=www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=24 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424141243/https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/clapham-junction |url-status=live }}</ref>) is a major railway station near St John's Hill in south-west Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It lies {{convert|2|mi|57|chain|mi km|2|lk=in}} from {{stn|London Victoria}} and {{convert|3|mi|74|chain|mi km|2}} from {{stn|London Waterloo}}.<ref>{{cite book |last=Yonge |first=John |editor-last=Jacobs |editor-first=Gerald |title=Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL |edition=3rd |date=November 2008 |orig-year=1994 |publisher=Trackmaps |location=Bradford on Avon |isbn=978-0-9549866-4-3 |at=map 2L }}</ref> Despite its name, Clapham Junction is not in Clapham, a district {{convert|1|mi|km}} to the south-east.

A major transport hub, Clapham Junction station is on both the South West Main Line and Brighton Main Line, as well as numerous other routes and branch lines which pass through or diverge from the main lines at this station. It serves as a southern terminus of both the Mildmay and Windrush lines of the London Overground.

Routes from London's south and south-west termini, Victoria and Waterloo, funnel through the station, making it the busiest in Europe by number of trains using it: between 100 and 180 per hour, except for the five hours after midnight.<ref>''Great British Railway Journeys'' (Series 4, Episode 7): "Woking to Clapham Junction" BBC Two, 15 January 2013</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2020}} The station is also the busiest UK station for interchanges between services,<ref>Office of Rail Regulation, Station Usage Estimates 2011–12</ref> as well as the only railway station in Great Britain with more interchanges than entries or exits.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/39960/estimates-of-station-usage-2017-18-key-facts.pdf |publisher=Office of Rail and Road |date=11 December 2018 |access-date=31 December 2018 |title=Estimates of Station Usage 2017-18 |archive-date=1 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101002726/http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/39960/estimates-of-station-usage-2017-18-key-facts.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

==History== {{Main|Battersea#History}}

thumb|left|The first known photograph of the station, {{circa|1875}}, looking north from St John's Hill bridge. The left two tracks are the L&SWR, the next three are the LB&SCR, and the two lines branching to the right are the WLER (laid with mixed-gauge track). The Richmond tracks and platforms are out of shot to the left.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=Tim |title=Change at Clapham Junction |date=1994 |publisher=Wandsworth Borough Council |location=London |page=12 }}</ref>

On 21 May 1838, the London and Southampton Railway became the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR), and opened its line from {{rws|Nine Elms}} as far as {{rws|Woking}}. The second line, initially from Nine Elms to Richmond, opened on 27 July 1846. Nine Elms was replaced in 1848 as the terminus by Waterloo Bridge station, now Waterloo. The line to Victoria opened by 1860.

Clapham Junction opened on 2 March 1863, a joint venture of the L&SWR, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) and the West London Extension Railway (WLER) as an interchange station for their lines.<ref>The west London Railway and the W.L.E.R, H.V.Borley & R.W.Kidner, 1981 reprint, The Oakwood Press, Usk Monmouthshire. {{ISBN|0-85361-174-2 }}</ref>

The railway companies, to attract a middle- and upper-class clientele, seized the nonindustrial parish calculating that being upon the slopes of Clapham's plateau would only reinforce this distinction, leading to a long-lasting misunderstanding that the station is in Clapham.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wLssAQAAIAAJ ''Year's Art''], published 1922, London, p. 500</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GkThQYLb3ZUC Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: Vol. 2 (L-Z)] A. Brodie (ed), 2001, Continuum, London, p.12</ref> {{Overground RDT}} [[File:Maintaining the Railway - geograph.org.uk - 581736.jpg|thumb|A Class 73 locomotive with track workers maintaining the railway in 1986]]

===Discontinued proposals=== A {{nowrap|£39.5 million}} planning application from Metro Shopping Fund was withdrawn before governmental planning committee consideration on 20 May 2009.{{efn|The 2009 ''Metro Shopping'' company plan included a new entrance on St John's Hill, the straightening and extension of platforms 15 to 17, more ticketing facilities, step-free access to all platforms by 2011, a new step-free entrance on Grant Road and a new 'high street' from St John's Hill to Falcon Road with retail space and arthouse cinema. Profitable immediate funding was planned via radical height 42-storey residential buildings above the station}}

A 'Heathrow Airtrack' to reduce the 95-minute journey by tube and Gatwick Express to {{rws|Gatwick Airport}} and unite the Great Western Main Line with Heathrow, Gatwick and the South West Main Line was cancelled in 2011 following improvements to the 2005-built Heathrow Connect track from {{rws|Hayes and Harlington}} and practical impediments, such as pressure for continued high-frequency services on the three deemed-'entrenched' semi-fast and slow services between Clapham Junction and Staines. Overground, the change would have been at Clapham Junction.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13042740 |title=Heathrow Airtrack Waterloo rail link shelved by BAA |work=BBC News London |date=11 April 2011 |access-date=29 December 2011 |archive-date=30 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030124455/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13042740 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Incidents and accidents===

====Clapham rail disaster==== {{Main|Clapham Junction rail crash}} On the morning of 12 December 1988, two collisions involving three commuter trains occurred slightly south-west of the station due to a defective signal. 35 people died and 484 were injured.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_2547000/2547561.stm |title=1988: 35 dead in Clapham rail collision |website=BBC On This Day |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |author= |date=12 December 1988 |access-date=11 July 2017 |archive-date=7 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307133743/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_2547000/2547561.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hidden |first1=Anthony |author1-link=Anthony Hidden |title=Investigation into the Clapham Junction Railway Accident |date=November 1989 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London |isbn=978-0-10-108202-0 |url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoT_Hidden001.pdf |access-date=7 September 2012 |archive-date=16 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016211020/http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoT_Hidden001.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Track bombing==== On the morning of 16 December 1991, a bomb ripped through tracks on one of the station's platforms, causing major disruption to the rail network. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) claimed responsibility.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-12-17-1991351034-story.html |title=British workers, shoppers brave IRA bomb wave with dogged determination |first=Richard |last=O'Mara |website=baltimoresun.com |date=17 December 1991 |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=24 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424141238/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-12-17-1991351034-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==The Junction== [[File:Clapham Junction, Stewarts Lane, Lavender Hill & Longhedge RJD 17.jpg|thumb|A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Clapham Junction.]] thumb|Clapham Junction in 2022 The station is named Clapham Junction because it is at the junction of several rail lines. The name is not given to any rail junction near the station which, without end-on intercompany junctions, are:

* Falcon Junction at the south end of the station, where the West London Line (WLL) joins the Brighton Slow Lines<ref name=Faulkner1991>{{cite book |last1=Faulkner |first1=J. N. |title=Clapham Junction |date=1991 |publisher=Ian Allan |series=Rail Centres |location=London |isbn=978-0-7110-2026-9 |page=15 }}</ref> * Ludgate Junction at the eastern end of the Windsor Line platforms to the WLL<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lee |first=Charles E. |date=October 1956 |title=The West End of London Railway |url=https://sremg.org.uk/RlyMag/WestEndOfLondonRailway.pdf |magazine=The Railway Magazine |page=650 |access-date=24 November 2023 }}</ref> * Latchmere SW Junction connecting the WLL to the Windsor lines at Ludgate Junction.<ref name=Faulkner1991/> * Latchmere Main Junction connecting the WLL to the Brighton Line at Falcon Junction.<ref name=Faulkner1991/> * West London Extension Junction and Junction for Waterloo, relaid for Eurostar empty-stock moves from the Windsor Lines to the WLL.<ref name=Faulkner1991/> * Pouparts Junction where the low-level and high-level approaches to Victoria split.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=Tim |title=Change at Clapham Junction : The Railways of Wandsworth and South West London |date=1994 |publisher=Wandsworth Borough Council Leisure and Amenity Services Department |location=Wandsworth |isbn=0-902837-26-5 |page=91 }}</ref>

==Current services== {{more citations needed section|date=February 2015}} {{Clapham Junction lines}} Each day more than 2,000 trains, over half of them stopping, pass through the station, more than through any other station in Europe.<ref>"Great British Railway Journeys (Series 4, Episode 7): Woking to Clapham Junction" BBC2, UK TV Channel, 15/01/13</ref> At peak times up to 200 trains per hour pass through of which 122 stop. It is not the busiest station by number of passengers, most of whom (about 430,000 on a weekday, of which 135,000 are at rush hours) pass through. Interchanges make some 40% of the activity and on that basis too it is the busiest station in the UK.<ref>Delta Rail, [http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529 2008–09 station usage report] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705115621/http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529 |date=5 July 2007 }}, Office of the Rail Regulation website</ref>

In 2011, the station had three entrances, all with staffed ticket offices: * Only the south-east entrance is open 24 hours a day; it is the most heavily used of the three, leading from St John's Hill via a small indoor shopping centre into a subway, some {{convert|15|ft}} wide, that connects to the eastern ends of all platforms. * The north entrance, which has restricted opening hours, leads from the Winstanley Estate on Grant Road to the same subway.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.openplay.co.uk/view/1630/winstanley-estate-muga |title=Winstanley Estate MUGA - Thomas Baines Road Grant Road Clapham Junction South London SW11 2HF : sports facility book online |website=Openplay.co.uk |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=14 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814030923/https://www.openplay.co.uk/view/1630/winstanley-estate-muga |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cjag.org/category/clapham-junction/winstanleyyork-road-estates/ |title=Winstanley&York Road estates |website=Cjag.org |date=16 February 2022 |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=26 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526211242/https://cjag.org/category/clapham-junction/winstanleyyork-road-estates/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The subway is crowded during rush hours, with the ticket barriers at the ends being pinch points. * The south-west entrance, also known as the Brighton Yard entrance, as the buildings still bear signage for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, has a more traditional appearance, with a Victorian station building set at the back of a large forecourt. This entrance leads to a very wide covered footbridge, which joins the western ends of all platforms. This entrance includes cycle parking and a taxi rank. It was re-opened in May 2011 as part of a wider programme of access improvements that included installing lifts to the platforms.<ref name="Improvements">[http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/BusinessPlan2007/PDF/Route%203%20South%20West%20Main%20Line.pdf Route Plans 2007 – Route 3 – South West Main line] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229173701/http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/BusinessPlan2007/PDF/Route%203%20South%20West%20Main%20Line.pdf |date=29 February 2008 }} published by Network Rail, 2007 – See page 20</ref>

There are public and disabled toilets at the south-west entrance. There are refreshment kiosks in the subway, on the footbridge and on some platforms; and a small shopping centre, including a small branch of Sainsbury's supermarket, in the south-east entrance.

British Transport Police maintain a neighbourhood policing presence,<ref name=SE>{{Cite web |url=http://www.btp.police.uk/about_us/areas/london_south.aspx#clapham |title=British Transport Police, London South Area |access-date=14 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221232740/http://www.btp.police.uk/about_us/areas/london_south.aspx#clapham |archive-date=21 December 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> whereas the Metropolitan Police Service and the part-Transport for London funded Safer Transport Command provides a police presence in the area outside the station.

On 9 December 2012, a new platform for the East London line opened, creating an orbital railway around inner London.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-20557061 |title=Outer London rail orbital opens |first=Debabani |last=Majumdar |date=10 December 2012 |access-date=24 April 2019 |work=BBC News |archive-date=24 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424142750/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-20557061 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Overcrowding is most frequent in the often convenient but narrow cross-platform subway. Using this rather than the elevated concourse for interchange, a visitors' eyes assessment of fabric and environment listed Clapham Junction in the most needy 10% of Department for Transport category B stations.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

In an attempt to reduce overcrowding, a staircase to platforms 13 and 14 was replaced with a new wider staircase in April 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Roger |date=11 April 2023 |title=New, wider staircase at Clapham Junction station improves capacity |url=https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2023/04/new-wider-staircase-at-clapham-junction-station-improves-capacity.html |access-date=14 April 2023 |website=RailAdvent |language=en-GB }}</ref>

===Platforms=== thumb|The subway at Clapham Junction during the night. The station has seventeen platforms, numbered 1 to 17.<ref name="metro_london">{{Cite web |title=Detailled London transport map (track, depot, ...) |url=http://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-london/ |access-date=20 April 2021 |website=cartometro.com |archive-date=9 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609032126/http://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-london/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In general, platforms 1 and 2 are used by London Overground trains, platforms 3–11 by South Western Railway trains and platforms 12–17 by Southern trains. Non-stop Gatwick Express trains pass through platforms 12 and 13. * Platforms 1 and 2 are north-east facing bay platforms connected to the Mildmay and Windrush lines of the London Overground, handling services to and from {{stn|Stratford}} via Willesden Junction and {{stn|Dalston Junction}} via Peckham. Usually, platform 1 is served by trains on the Mildmay line, while platform 2 is used by services on the Windrush line, although this usage can be reversed. * Platforms 3 and 4 are through platforms on the Waterloo–Reading line towards {{stn|London Waterloo}}. * Platforms 5 and 6 are through platforms on the Waterloo–Reading line towards {{stn|Reading}}. * Platform 7 is a through platform located at a siding off the South West Main Line fast line towards London Waterloo, used by stopping trains. * Platform 8 is a through platform on the South West Main Line fast line towards London Waterloo, used by non-stop trains passing through this station. * Platform 9 is a through platform on the South West Main Line fast line towards {{stn|Woking}}. * Platform 10 is a through platform on the South West Main Line slow line towards London Waterloo. * Platform 11 is a through platform on the South West Main Line slow line towards Woking. * Platform 12 is a through platform on the Brighton Main Line fast line towards {{stn|London Victoria}}. * Platform 13 is a through platform on the Brighton Main Line fast line towards {{stn|East Croydon}}. * Platform 14 is a through platform on the Brighton Main Line slow line towards London Victoria. * Platform 15 is a through platform on the Brighton Main Line slow line towards East Croydon. * Platforms 16 and 17 are platforms connecting the Brighton Main Line slow line and the West London line, used by Southern services. Platform 16 is the northbound platform (towards {{rws|Watford Junction}}) and platform 17 is the southbound platform (towards East Croydon). Platform 17 can also be used by some terminating London Overground services as well. Sidings leading into railway sheds at the west of the station are located between platforms 6 and 7.

Platform 8 must not be used for stopping trains, unless in an emergency, because the platform gap is too wide.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The story behind Clapham Junction's disused platform 8 |url=https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-story-behind-clapham-junctions-disused-platform-8-79074/ |access-date=25 February 2025 |website=ianvisits.co.uk|date=18 February 2025 }}</ref>

==Services== thumb|Aerial view of the station and carriage sidings from the north thumb|Details of roof support columns All South Western Railway services from Waterloo pass through the station, as do Southern and Gatwick Express trains from Victoria. The Mildmay and Windrush lines of the London Overground have Clapham Junction as one of their termini.

The typical off-peak service of 104 trains an hour (tph) is:

'''South Western Railway:''' * 28 trains per hour (tph) to {{Stnlnk|London Waterloo}} * 1 tph to {{Stnlnk|Alton}} * 1 tph to {{Stn|Basingstoke}} (slow) * 1 tph to {{Stnlnk|Exeter St Davids}} via {{Stnlnk|Salisbury}} * 1 tph to {{Stnlnk|Haslemere}} * 1 tph to Salisbury (roughly 1tp2h extended to Yeovil Pen Mill) * 1 tph to {{Stnlnk|Weymouth}} * 1 tph to {{Stnlnk|Dorking}} via {{Stn|Wimbledon}} * 1 tph to Guildford via {{Stnlnk|Epsom}} * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Guildford|Surrey}} via {{Stnlnk|Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon}} * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Chessington South}} * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Hampton Court}} via Surbiton * 2 tph to {{rws|Shepperton}} via Wimbledon * 2 tph to {{stnlnk|Woking}} (slow) * 2 tph to London Waterloo by the Kingston Loop via Wimbledon, Kingston and Richmond * 2 tph to London Waterloo by the Kingston Loop via Richmond, Kingston and Wimbledon * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Reading}} via {{Stnlnk|Wokingham}} * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Weybridge}} via Brentford, Hounslow and {{Stnlnk|Staines}} * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Windsor & Eton Riverside}}

'''Southern:''' * 18 tph to {{Stnlnk|London Victoria}} * 2 tph to {{stnlnk|Bognor Regis}} and {{stnlnk|Portsmouth Harbour}} dividing at {{stnlnk|Horsham}} * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Littlehampton}} * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|East Grinstead}} via {{Stnlnk|Oxted}} * 2 tph to {{rws|Eastbourne}}, with 1 continuing to {{rws|Ore}} * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Reigate}} * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Dorking}} via {{Stnlnk|Sutton|Surrey}} and Epsom, of which one continues to Horsham * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|Epsom Downs}} * 2 tph to London Bridge via Crystal Palace * 2 tph to {{Stnlnk|West Croydon}} * 1 tph to {{Stnlnk|East Croydon}} via {{Stnlnk|Norbury}} * 1 tph to {{stnlnk|Watford Junction}} via {{stnlnk|Kensington Olympia}}

'''London Overground:''' * 4 tph to {{stn|Dalston Junction}} via Canada Water (Windrush line) * 4 tph to {{stn|Stratford}} via Highbury & Islington (Mildmay line)

During peak hours on weekdays express services on the South West Main Line and outer suburban services to Alton and Basingstoke typically do not stop at the station. thumb|The footbridge. thumb|Clapham Junction in 2001.

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==Future proposals== In the 2010s, a Clapham Junction station was proposed as part of the Crossrail 2 project. A large underground station dug underneath the existing station was proposed to serve Crossrail 2 service.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clapham Junction |url=https://crossrail2.co.uk/stations/clapham-junction/ |access-date=12 September 2021 |website=Crossrail 2 |archive-date=12 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912114830/https://crossrail2.co.uk/stations/clapham-junction/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was indefinitely postponed in 2020, although the route has been safeguarded.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Topham |first=Gwyn |title=Crossrail 2 plans shelved as part of £1.8bn TfL funding deal |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/02/crossrail-2-plans-shelved-transport-for-london-funding-deal |access-date=2 November 2020 }}</ref>

The Northern line extension to Battersea Power Station was criticised for not extending to Clapham Junction. During the public inquiry into the extension in 2014, it was noted that although an extension to Clapham would be desirable, it was unnecessary to meet the needs of the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea regeneration area.<ref name=":29">{{Cite web |last=Dixon |first=J S |date=19 June 2014 |title=Report to the Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government - Transport and Works Act 1992 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and Acquisition of Land Act 1981 - London Underground (Northern Line Extension) Order 201[ ] |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/737161/northern-line-inspectors-report.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=11 September 2021 |publisher=HM Government |pages=186–187 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729234913/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/737161/northern-line-inspectors-report.pdf |archive-date=29 July 2019 }}</ref> Additionally, it was noted that a further extension could overwhelm the extension, due to the high demand.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lydall |first=Ross |date=21 May 2021 |title=First extension to London Underground this century to open in Sept |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/northern-line-extension-nine-elms-battersea-open-september-b936566.html |url-status=live |access-date=12 September 2021 |website=Evening Standard |language=en |quote=Engineers have previously said that extending the Northern line to Clapham Junction could have overwhelmed the new route due. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521164034/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/northern-line-extension-nine-elms-battersea-open-september-b936566.html |archive-date=21 May 2021 }}</ref> However, provision has been made for a future extension of the line to the station, with a reserved course underneath Battersea Park.<ref name=":17">{{cite news |last=Henderson |first=Jamie |date=23 June 2013 |title=Clapham Junction next for Northern Line says London Assembly member |newspaper=Wandsworth Guardian |url=http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/10501385.Clapham_Junction_next_for_Northern_Line_says_London_Assembly_member/ |access-date=12 January 2014 |quote=A path running beneath Battersea Park has already been reserved for such a move |archive-date=24 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224115148/http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/10501385.Clapham_Junction_next_for_Northern_Line_says_London_Assembly_member/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":34">{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Northern line extension Factsheet 8: Previous consultation on the Northern line extension (NLE) and our response to issues raised |url=https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/tube/nle/supporting_documents/Factsheet8.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=9 September 2021 |website=Transport for London |quote=Consultation responses raised some interest in the possibility of the Northern line being extended beyond Battersea as far as Clapham Junction. The proposals allow for the potential for a future extension beyond Battersea. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202195324/https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/tube/nle/supporting_documents/Factsheet8.pdf |archive-date=2 December 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Boris |last2=Darren |first2=Johnson |date=8 October 2012 |title=Extension of Northern Line to Clapham Junction |url=https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2012/2896 |url-status=live |access-date=11 September 2021 |website=Mayor's Question Time |quote=There are no current plans to extend further to Clapham Junction; however it is a requirement that the extension be designed so that a further extension would be possible in the future. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911182014/https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2012/2896 |archive-date=11 September 2021 }}</ref>

Government and Network Rail funding{{Clarify|date=September 2021}} in the early 2010s of £50 million of improvements was granted.<ref>{{cite news |title=£50m revamp for 'worst stations' |work=BBC News |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8363621.stm |date=17 November 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |archive-date=19 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091119043908/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8363621.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> This was an upgrade to the main interchange: new entrances and more retail.<ref>Chris Green & Sir Peter Hall, [http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/passenger/stations/betterrailstations/pdf/report.pdf Better Rail Stations] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122073856/http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/passenger/stations/betterrailstations/pdf/report.pdf |date=22 November 2009 }}, November 2009</ref>

In a Network Rail study in 2015, it was proposed that platform 0 could reopen for 8-car operations of the West London Line.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/South-East-Route-Sussex-Area-Route-Study-FINAL.pdf |title=South East Route: Sussex Area Route Study |website=cdn.networkrail.co.uk |access-date=1 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222043930/https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/South-East-Route-Sussex-Area-Route-Study-FINAL.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{needs update|date=June 2025}}

==Connections== London Buses serve the station with a number of day and nighttime routes.<ref name=busroute1>{{cite web |url=https://www.tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/HUBCLJ/clapham-junction-station |title=Clapham Junction Station – Bus Station 1 |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=11 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111100205/https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/HUBCLJ/clapham-junction-station |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=busroute2>{{cite web |url=https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/490G01069M/clapham-junction-station/ |title=Clapham Junction Station |website=Transport for London |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=11 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111104710/https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/490G01069M/clapham-junction-station/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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==External links== {{Commons category|Clapham Junction railway station}} * [http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/clj/details.html Network Rail Details] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080820101018/http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/NR/Wandsworth/localpdf/planning/plothconclapjunc.pdf Short History of Clapham Junction] prepared by Wandsworth Council, and from which much of the information in the history section of this entry is sourced * [https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_2547000/2547561.stm 1988: 35 dead in Clapham rail collision] BBC News report on the 1988 train collisions * [http://www.claphamjunction.co.uk/ Local news website] * [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/nov/18/clapham-junction-sun-shone-roof Yes, Clapham Junction is that bad. The sun shone, but the roof still leaks], Zoe Williams, ''The Guardian'' 18 November 2009 * {{citation |chapter-url=http://www.railwaywondersoftheworld.com/clapham-junction.html |chapter=Clapham Junction |title=Railway Wonders of the World |date=4 October 1935 |pages=1129–1132 |editor-first=Clarence |editor-last=Winchester}}, description of the station in the 1930s

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