Editing Cheam (section)

==Transport==
[[File:Extract from Report to the Minister of War Transport 21 January 1946 Map 2 - Routes 10 and 11.jpg|thumb|upright|Duplication of tunnels on the Northern line and extension to North Cheam proposed in 1946|alt=A coloured map shows proposed new railway routes superimposed in red on a map of existing railway lines]]
Cheam is served by [[Cheam railway station|Cheam station]] on the [[Sutton and Mole Valley lines]] between [[Sutton railway station (London)|Sutton]] and [[Epsom railway station|Epsom]]. It is in [[List of stations in London fare zone 5|Travelcard Zone 5]]. Services from Cheam to central London include direct trains to Victoria which take about 30 minutes.

In 1910, parliamentary approval was given to the [[Wimbledon and Sutton Railway]] to construct a [[Cheam tube station|station]] at Cheam Road, Sutton that would have been served by the [[London Underground]]'s [[District Railway]]. Following negotiations between the [[Underground Electric Railways Company of London]] and the [[Southern Railway (UK)|Southern Railway]], the line was eventually opened in 1930 by the Southern Railway, though the station was replaced by [[West Sutton railway station|West Sutton]] to its north.

In 1946, a report on London's railways to the Ministry of War Transport detailed possible new routes and rail lines for the London Underground, including the [[Victoria line]] and a route that would serve similar stations to [[Crossrail]].<ref name="ev">{{cite web |last=Wills |first=Ella |date=25 May 2018 |title=Revealed: This TfL Tube map from 1946 shows how London Underground could have looked |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/revealed-longforgotten-tube-map-from-1946-shows-how-london-underground-could-have-looked-in-a-a3847101.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002113818/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/revealed-longforgotten-tube-map-from-1946-shows-how-london-underground-could-have-looked-in-a-parallel-universe-a3847101.html |archive-date=2 October 2021 |access-date=31 March 2020 |publisher=[[Evening Standard]]}}</ref> The same report recommended extending the [[Northern line]] to North Cheam, contingent on doubling the tracks between [[Kennington tube station|Kennington]] and [[Tooting Broadway tube station|Tooting Broadway]] such that [[Charing Cross tube station|Charing Cross]] trains would terminate at Tooting Broadway, and with an intermediate station at [[Morden South railway station|Morden South]]. Both proposals would each have cost £1,500,000.<ref name="rc">{{cite book|year=1946|title=Report to the Ministry of War Transport|publisher=Railway (London Plan) Committee}}</ref> The proposed site for North Cheam station would have occupied the site of what was then a [[Granada plc|Granada]] cinema on London Road in [[North Cheam]], which was opened in 1937 and closed in 1969;<ref name="Granada">{{cite book |last=Eyles |first=Allen |title=The Granada Theatres |publisher=Cinema Theatre Association |year=1998 |isbn=9780851706801 |page=85}}</ref> one half was demolished to make way for a community centre car park,<ref name="nls">{{cite web |date= |title=Side by side georeferenced maps viewer |url=https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18&lat=51.37241&lon=-0.22516&layers=170&right=BingHyb |access-date=31 March 2020 |publisher=[[National Library of Scotland]]}}</ref> and the other half of which is now a [[Wetherspoons]] pub.<ref name="Granada"/> However, as no detailed planning and application was made for permission to construct the extension — by the report's own admission, "the period required for construction, under the most favourable conditions, would not be less than 30 years"<ref name="rc"/> — the extension to North Cheam did not take place.<ref name="londonist">{{cite web|url=https://londonist.com/london/transport/a-tube-map-based-on-proposals-from-the-1940s-which-didn-t-happen|title=A Tube Map That Never Happened, Based On Plans From The 1940s|publisher=Londonist.com|first=Will|last=Noble|date=23 May 2018|access-date=31 March 2020}}</ref>

Cheam and North Cheam are served by bus routes including services 213 (Sutton to Kingston), 151 (Wallington to Worcester Park), 93 (North Cheam to Putney Bridge) and the SL7 service between Heathrow Airport and Croydon.