Clapham Common tube station

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Clapham Common
Location
Place	Clapham
Local authority	London Borough of Lambeth

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	2
2005 annual usage	7.482 million †
2007 annual usage	8.77 million †
History
1900 1926	Opened as terminus (C&SLR) Became through station
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Clapham Common tube station is a station on London Underground's Northern Line. It lies between Clapham North and Clapham South stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station is at the eastern tip of Clapham Common and was opened in June 1900 as the new southern terminus of the City & South London Railway, which was extended from Stockwell. It remained the terminus until the Morden extension was opened in 1926. Apart from a small domed entrance building on the tip of the narrow triangular island formed by The Pavement and Clapham Common South Side, the station is entirely underground. A subway link from the south-east side of Clapham Common South Side also links to the below-ground ticket hall. It is one of two remaining stations on the underground that has an island platform in tunnel, serving both the northbound and southbound lines; the other is Clapham North.

It is one of eight London Underground stations which has a deep-level air-raid shelter underneath it. Both entrances to the shelter are north of the station on Clapham High Street.