page_title: Bakerloo line extension
section_title: Early 2000s
hierarchical_section_title: Bakerloo line extension / Early 2000s
caption_attribution_description: Camberwell Green, Southwark, London. Taken by C Ford, 21st February 2004.
context_page_description: The Bakerloo line extension is a proposed southern extension of the London Underground Bakerloo line in South London from its current terminus at Elephant & Castle. An extension to Camberwell was due to be built in the late 1940s, but the project was cancelled. In the 21st century the project has been revived in one version or another, with plans for an extension to be completed by 2028 or 2029. There has been a more concrete proposal, which is to extend to Lewisham; Camberwell was originally proposed as a short-range destination for a southern extension of the Bakerloo line, but it is now widely viewed that the extension will continue below ground to Lewisham station and then above ground via Catford Bridge railway station to take over the Hayes line.
context_section_description: After more than half a century of lying largely dormant, with only the occasional proposal to extend to Peckham in the 1970s, plans for a southern Bakerloo extension were re-awakened. In 2006 Ken Livingstone, the then Mayor of London, announced that within twenty years Camberwell could have a tube station. Transport for London has indicated that extensions, possibly to Camberwell, could play a part in the future transport strategy for South London over the coming years.
  In 2005–2006, TfL commissioned a transport strategic report for London, Transport 2025: transport challenges for a growing city. Transport commentators have reported that this publication had recommended a Bakerloo extension as the most beneficial option for extending the Tube in South London, and that it considered three route options for the Bakerloo line; from Elephant & Castle, the proposed routes were either south to Camberwell and Streatham, or east to Beckenham and Hayes:
  Option 1: via Burgess Park, east to Peckham Rye and Catford Bridge, with the option of taking over the Hayes Line to terminate at Hayes
  Option 2: south to Camberwell Green, and then on to Herne Hill and Streatham Hill, with a branch at Tulse Hill which would take over the National Rail line to Beckenham Junction
  Option 3: a similar route to option 1, but after Burgess Park running via the Old Kent Road and New Cross before joining the Hayes line at Lewisham and terminating at Hayes.
  An alternative proposal to build a Cross River Tram emerged in the 21st century: this would have seen the construction of a new tram line and stations on Walworth Road, but this project was abandoned in 2008 due to cost.
  A consultant's report for Lewisham Council in 2010 analysed the costs and benefits of six different routes for a Bakerloo extension in the inner London suburbs, four different routes in the so-called middle suburbs and two different routes in the outer suburbs. TfL's view was that "A key advantage of the Hayes option is that [it] releases train paths into London Bridge".
caption: Camberwell Green, site of a possible Bakerloo line station
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