Balham tube station

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Balham
Location
Place	Balham
Local authority	Wandsworth
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Transport for London
Zone	3
Annual entry/exit	9.466 million †
History
1926	Opened (C&SLR)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Balham tube station is a station on London Underground's Northern Line located between Clapham South and Tooting Bec stations. The surface building was designed by the architect Charles Holden. The station opened on September 13, 1926 as part of the Morden extension of the City & South London Railway (now part of the Northern Line). The station is in Travelcard Zone 3.

Balham station has entrances on the east and west sides of Balham High Street linked by a pedestrian subway. Regional rail services also run from the adjacent Balham railway station.

Trains "drive on the left" (i.e. northbound trains are on the west track, southbound on the east) as in most stations, and there are two exits from each platform close to the centre of each platform.

On October 14, 1940, during World War II, a bomb fell in the road above the station, with the blast penetrating into the tunnel 9 metres below. The water mains and sewage pipes were broken, causing flooding and the loss of 65 lives. The station and the tracks between Clapham South and Tooting Bec (then called Trinity Road, Tooting Bec) were closed until January 1941. There is a plaque in the station ticket hall commemorating this, although it incorrectly states 64 lives were lost.