{"id":64209,"date":"2026-08-17T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64209"},"modified":"2026-08-16T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:28:30","slug":"stop-by-stop-london-trams-central-croydon-church-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64209","title":{"rendered":"Stop by Stop London Trams: Central Croydon \u2013 Church Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our journey on London Trams continues through central Croydon as we now head to the stop at Church Street.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we depart the single platform at George Street we continue for a short distance on that road before crossing the pedestrian entrance to one of the main shopping streets in Croydon and then we are onto Church Street. As with the single track section on George Street this is a narrow road allowing the tram to carry on before we each the next stop.<\/p>\n<p>Church Street again has a single platform on the right hand side in direction of travel. It has shelters, ticket validators, electronic passenger information displays and lots of written information about travelling by tram. Again there is a footpath either side of the tracks here with various commercial premises lining the road.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64210\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2561-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64210\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2561-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2561-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2561-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2561-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo we see Variobahn 2561 arriving at Church Street with a service to Elmers End. Its an early morning Sunday timetable (although it is a Bank Holiday Monday) which means the first services of the day to Elmers End run round the loop rather than to Wimbledon. (Photograph by Gareth Prior, 4th May 2026)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our journey on London Trams continues through central Croydon as we now head to the stop at Church Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64211,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64209\/revisions\/64211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}