Tooting Bec tube station
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox London station Tooting Bec, originally Trinity Road, is a London Underground station in Tooting, South London. It is on the Northern line between Balham and Tooting Broadway stations, and is located in Travelcard Zone 3. The station is 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).
HistoryEdit
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.
ConnectionsEdit
London Buses routes 155, 219, 249, 319 and 355 and night route N155 serve the station.
ReferencesEdit
GalleryEdit
- Tooting Bec stn northbound look south.JPG
Northbound platform looking south
- Tooting Bec stn southbound look north.JPG
Southbound platform looking north
- Tooting Bec stn roundel.JPG
Station roundel
- Tooting Bec escalators.jpg
The escalators with uplighters at Tooting Bec