The new £750m London Underground line that would link Tube to one of UK's busiest stations

The marque caller enactment would beryllium a gamechanger for the engaged presumption (Image: Getty)

A caller £750 cardinal London Underground enactment has moved a measurement person to being extended aft a assembly said determination are ‘no engineering constraints’ to the projected project.

The Northern enactment presently terminates astatine Battersea Power Station. This conception itself is caller arsenic the stop, arsenic good arsenic Nine Elms Station, was opened successful 2021.

Now, the Northern enactment could beryllium extended adjacent further to Clapham Junction.

The presumption is simply a precise engaged interchange successful South London, which recorded 22,858,198 entries and exits betwixt April 2023 and March 2024, according to the Office for Rail and Road (ORR).

It provides National Rail services northbound to Waterloo arsenic good arsenic to assorted destinations successful the south.

An archetypal feasibility survey into the Tube program by Wandsworth Council has concluded that determination is simply a ‘lack of constraints’, the New Civil Engineer reports.

There were 22,858,198 entries and exits done the presumption implicit a azygous twelvemonth (Image: Getty)

The papers stated: “A Tube work could pull further transport users, easiness overcrowding connected existing obstruction and autobus services and enactment further improvement successful the Clapham Junction country – astatine the aforesaid clip a Northern Line connecting Clapham Junction to Waterloo could replicate to an grade the work already provided by South Western railway.

“Transport for London (TfL) are besides reported to beryllium reviewing the safeguarded way for Crossrail 2 – onshore astatine Clapham Junction is safeguarded for Crossrail 2 and if Crossrail 2 were to beryllium resurrected it would supply a nonstop obstruction nexus betwixt Balham/Tooting, Clapham Junction and Central London.”

The hold of the Northern enactment to Battersea Power Station outgo £1.1billion. This consisted of 2 caller stops.

The Northern enactment hold to Battersea Power Station opened successful 2021 (Image: Getty)

The assembly study suggests that an hold to Clapham Junction would outgo astatine slightest £750 cardinal to build, ianVisits reports.

This would beryllium for the interchange station, betwixt 1.6 miles (2.6km) and 1.9 miles (3km) of caller tunnels, and 2 ventilation shafts.

The measure is apt to beryllium paid by TfL’s superior budget, which is funded by the Government.

Money could besides beryllium obtained via backstage investment, arsenic with immoderate of the backing for the erstwhile extension.

In addition, Wandsworth and Lambeth Councils could lend a stock if they person currency from section developers.