{"id":64376,"date":"2026-08-31T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64376"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:55:32","slug":"stop-by-stop-london-trams-central-croydon-west-croydon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64376","title":{"rendered":"Stop by Stop London Trams: Central Croydon \u2013 West Croydon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another edition of \u201cStop by Stop\u201d as we take a journey on the London Trams system. We\u2019ve made it into central Croydon now and continue our way around the single track loop in the town centre.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tram departs Centrale and continues along Tamworth Road on its single track. The railway line into West Croydon becomes visible on the left as reach a road junction with North End, after passing that junction we\u2019re onto Station Road for the final approach to West Croydon tramstop.<\/p>\n<p>With West Croydon bus station on the right, the tramstop is again a single platform and features a living wall which is the barrier between the edge of the platform at the railway line below. The platform also has all the usual things we see on tram platforms across the network.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64377\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2533-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64377\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64377\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2533-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2533-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2533-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2533-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2533 at West Croydon with a service to Beckenham Junction. The living wall is seen beyond the tram. (Photograph by Gareth Prior, 21st April 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another edition of \u201cStop by Stop\u201d as we take a journey on the London Trams system. We\u2019ve made it into central Croydon now and continue our way around the single track loop in the town centre.<\/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\/64376"}],"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=64376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64378,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64376\/revisions\/64378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}