Tooting Bec tube station

Tooting Bec
The station entrance
Tooting Bec Location of Tooting Bec in Greater London
Location	Tooting
Local authority	Wandsworth
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	6.56 million^[1]
2012	6.86 million^[1]
2013	6.90 million^[1]
2014	7.56 million^[1]
Railway companies
Original company	City and South London Railway
Key dates
13 September 1926 (1926-09-13)	Opened as Trinity Road (Tooting Bec)
1 October 1950	Renamed Tooting Bec
Listed status
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1065477^[2]
Added to list	16 June 1987
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°26′09″N 0°09′32″W / 51.435833°N 0.159°W / 51.435833; -0.159

Tooting Bec (originally Trinity Road (Tooting Bec)) is a London Underground station in Tooting, South London. The station is on the Northern line, between Balham and Tooting Broadway stations. It is located on the junction of Trinity Road (heading north-west), Upper Tooting Road (south-west), Balham High Road (north-east), Tooting Bec Road (south-east) and Stapleton Road (also south-east). The station is in Travelcard Zone 3.

History

The narrow satellite building on the east side of the junction, which provides a pedestrian subway access to the main station premises.

The station was designed by Charles Holden and opened on 13 September 1926 as part of the Morden extension of the City & South London Railway, which is now part of the Northern line. Originally known as Trinity Road (Tooting Bec), it was given its present name on 1 October 1950.^[3]

The narrow satellite building on the east side of the junction provides pedestrian subway access to the station and is unusual in that it has a large glazed roundel on each of the three panels of its glazed screen, as normally the Morden extension stations have the roundel in just the centre panel. For many years the northern panel of the screen was the sole example on any of the Morden extension stations to retain the 1920s "UNDERGROUND" lettering, the other stations' screens having been replaced with plain glass over the years. All the stations have now had the original motif replaced along with the flag-pole-mounted roundels that had been removed in the 1950s.

On the platforms the station has two examples of clocks from the Self Winding Clock Company of New York.

Connections

London Buses routes 155, 219, 249, 319 and 355 and night route N155 serve the station.

References

1 2 3 4 "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
↑ Historic England. "Tooting Bec Station (Including Above Ground Buildings and Sub Surface Platforms and Passages) (1065477)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
↑ http://underground-history.co.uk/renames.php

Gallery

Northbound platform looking south
Southbound platform looking north
Station platform roundel
The escalators with uplighters at Tooting Bec

External links

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Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Tooting Broadway towards Morden		Northern line		Balham towards Edgware, Mill Hill East or High Barnet

Northern line

Stations

High Barnet branch	High Barnet Totteridge & Whetstone Woodside Park West Finchley Mill Hill East Finchley Central East Finchley Highgate Archway Tufnell Park Kentish Town Camden Town

Edgware branch	Edgware Burnt Oak Colindale Hendon Central Brent Cross Golders Green Hampstead Belsize Park Chalk Farm Camden Town

Central section via Charing Cross	Camden Town Mornington Crescent Euston Warren Street Goodge Street Tottenham Court Road Leicester Square Charing Cross Embankment Waterloo Kennington

Central section via Bank	Camden Town Euston King's Cross St. Pancras Angel Old Street Moorgate Bank London Bridge Borough Elephant & Castle (100m)

Morden line	Kennington Oval Stockwell Clapham North Clapham Common Clapham South Balham Tooting Bec Tooting Broadway Colliers Wood South Wimbledon Morden

Future extension to Battersea	Kennington Nine Elms Battersea Power Station

Rolling stock

Present stock	1995 Stock

Former stock	1906 Stock 1938 Stock 1949 Stock 1956 Stock 1959 Stock 1962 Stock 1972 Stock Standard Stock

History

Former companies	City and South London Railway Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Edgware, Highgate and London Railway Underground Electric Railways Company of London

Former lines	Northern City Line

Former stations	City Road Essex Road Highbury & Islington Drayton Park City Road King William Street South Kentish Town

Abandoned plans	Northern Heights plan Aldenham depot Alexandra Palace Brockley Hill Bushey Heath Cranley Gardens Crouch End Elstree South Mill Hill Muswell Hill North End Stroud Green

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