Tube

Woke up midweek with the oddest dream, that they actually implemented tube travel in South London.  Then spent the next 30 or so minutes awake going through what it would mean and what stations would be represented. I came to the conclusion thatan off shoot from North Greenwich on the Jubilee line that went on to serve Bluewater shopping mall, via Plumstead and Bexleyheath, would be the best bet.

For those that don't know, the tube only really serves London, north of the river Thames. There are great links to the east and west along with inroads into Middlesex and Essex. But there is only token support for South London with the Northern Line terminating at Morden going someway to redress the balance.

I know we have the DLR now but consider this. When I was small our nearest tube was Elephant And Castle, a long bus trip away, and no New Cross station, does not count. 

While doing research for this, I found one of my holy grail's, an actual inverted map that shows the extent of the lines if they were represented from a south London point of view.

There are links to Leatherhead and Chessington, World of Adventures in the south, and Tonbridge Wells and East Grinstead in the extreme south east.  Dartford seems to have sprouted an airport, as it correlates to where Heathrow is in its inverse form.  Croydon is mainly part of the Jubilee line now so its goodbye trams and hello tube.

Most of south London proper, seems to be the same with only Camberwell gaining a tube stop and a few stops for Peckham and Walworth.

The not DLR now terminates at Kingston in the west rather than at Woolwich Arsenal, and what ever the white line serves Kew and its Gardens, much in the same way the district line does now.

As a final note, at secondary school in design and communication, one of the projects was coming up with a tube line that served south east London...  The more that changes, eh.