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Tooting Bec tube station

Coordinates: 51°26′09″N 0°09′32″W / 51.435833°N 0.159°W / 51.435833; -0.159
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Tooting Bec London Underground
The station entrance
Tooting Bec is located in Greater London
Tooting Bec
Tooting Bec
Location of Tooting Bec in Greater London
LocationTooting
Local authorityWandsworth
Managed byLondon Underground
OwnerLondon Underground
Number of platforms2
Fare zone3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019Increase 7.67 million[1]
2020Decrease 3.51 million[2]
2021Increase 3.61 million[3]
2022Increase 5.94 million[4]
2023Increase 6.27 million[5]
Railway companies
Original companyCity and South London Railway
Key dates
13 September 1926 (1926-09-13)Opened as Trinity Road (Tooting Bec)
1 October 1950Renamed Tooting Bec
Listed status
Listing gradeII
Entry number1065477[6]
Added to list16 June 1987; 37 years ago (1987-06-16)
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°26′09″N 0°09′32″W / 51.435833°N 0.159°W / 51.435833; -0.159
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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

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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.[7]

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 City.

Connections

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

References

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  1. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "London Underground History – Cut and Cover Disused Stations".
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  • Northbound platform looking south
    Northbound platform looking south
  • Southbound platform looking north
    Southbound platform looking north
  • Station platform roundel
    Station platform roundel
  • The escalators with uplighters at Tooting Bec
    The escalators with uplighters at Tooting Bec
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Preceding station London Underground Following station
Balham
towards Edgware, High Barnet or Mill Hill East
 Northern line
Morden branch
 Tooting Broadway
towards Morden
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