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
2012	6.86 million
2013	6.90 million
2014	7.56 million
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
Added to list	16 June 1987
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
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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

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.

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.

Gallery

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  Northbound platform looking south

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  Southbound platform looking north

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  Station platform roundel

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  The escalators with uplighters at Tooting Bec

External links

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Main station building, 1927
  • Satellite station building, 1926
  • Satellite station building, 1936

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