Which cricketer was killed by a Tube train in Wimbledon in June 2012?
Wimbledon Park tube station station as well. On 18 June 2012, Surrey cricketer Tom Maynard was electrocuted and hit by a London Underground train while trying to escape from police near Wimbledon Park station. In 2018, it was announced that the station would gain step free access by 2022, as part of a £200m investment to increase the number of accessible stations on the Tube. London Buses route 156 serve the station. Wimbledon Park was a proposed stop on the Chelsea-Hackney Line, now known as Crossrail 2. It was envisioned that the station's District line services would have been replaced by the new line.
Wimbledon Park tube station Wimbledon Park tube station Wimbledon Park is a London Underground station in Wimbledon. The station is on the District line and is between Southfields and Wimbledon stations. The station is located on Arthur Road close to the junction with Melrose Avenue close to the eastern side of Wimbledon Park. It is about 200 m west of Durnsford Road (A218) and is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station was opened by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on 3 June 1889 on an extension from to . The extension was built by the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR)