Tooting Broadway tube station

Tooting Broadway London Underground
Station entrance and statue of Edward VII
Tooting Broadway
Location of Tooting Broadway in Greater London
Location Tooting
Local authority London Borough of Wandsworth
Managed by London Underground
Owner London Underground
Number of platforms 2
Fare zone 3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2013 Increase 13.51 million[1]
2014 Increase 15.11 million[1]
2015 Increase 15.74 million[1]
2016 Increase 15.92 million[1]
2017 Increase 16.21 million[1]
Railway companies
Original company City and South London Railway
Key dates
1926 Opened (C&SLR)
Listed status
Listing grade II
Entry number 1065478[2]
Added to list 16 June 1987
Other information
Lists of stations
External links
WGS84 51°25′40″N 0°10′05″W / 51.427778°N 0.168°W / 51.427778; -0.168Coordinates: 51°25′40″N 0°10′05″W / 51.427778°N 0.168°W / 51.427778; -0.168
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Tooting Broadway is a London Underground station in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, South London. The station is on the Northern line, between Tooting Bec and Colliers Wood stations and is in Travelcard Zone 3.[3]

It is located on the corner of Tooting High Street (A24) and Mitcham Road (A217).[4]

History

The station was opened on 13 September 1926 as part of the Morden extension of the City & South London Railway south from Clapham Common.[5]

Along with the other stations on the Morden extension, the building was designed by architect Charles Holden. They were Holden's first major project for the Underground.[6] He was selected by Frank Pick, general manager of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL), to design the stations after he was dissatisfied with designs produced by the UERL's own architect, Stanley Heaps.[7] Built with shops to each side, the modernist design takes the form of a double-height curving screen clad in white Portland stone with a three-part glazed screen in the centre of the façade divided by columns of which the capitals are three-dimensional versions of the Underground roundel. The central panel of the screen contains a large version of the roundel.

A post-war review of rail transport in the London area produced a report in 1946 that proposed many new lines and identified the Morden branch as being the most overcrowded section of the London Underground, needing additional capacity.[8] To relieve the congestion, the report recommended construction of a second pair of tunnels beneath the Northern line's tunnels from Tooting Broadway to Kennington.[9][note 1] Trains using the existing tunnels would start and end at Tooting Broadway with the service in the new tunnels joining the existing tunnels to Morden.[9] Designated as route 10, the proposal was not developed by the London Passenger Transport Board or its successor organisations.[note 2]

The Station today

The station is a Grade II listed building.[2][note 3]

The station has a ticket hall, three escalators, 8 gates, a photo booth, cash machines (including Euro Cash Machines), three payphones and 7 Help Points (6 on the platforms and one elsewhere).[14][15] and access to the station is only via the escalators.[16] There is also a Wifi service at the station.[15] The station also has electronic whiteboards in the ticket hall and features a post-office style queuing for tickets.[14]

Services

Train frequencies vary throughout the day, but generally operate every 2–4 minutes between 06:17 and 00:01 in both directions.[17][18]

Southbound trains can terminate at Tooting Broadway on occasion rather than continue on to the end of the line at Morden, which is three stations to the south. To return north, out of service trains run south from the southbound platform into a reversing siding between the two running tunnels before reversing and running north through points on to the northbound platform where they return into service.

In 2013, it was announced that Transport for London's plans for Crossrail 2 included consideration of a station at Tooting Broadway. In October 2015, the plan was changed in favour of a route via Balham.[19]

Connections

London Bus routes 44, 57, 77, 127, 131, 155, 219, 264, 270, 280, 333, 355, 493 and G1 and night routes N44 and N155 serve the station.[20][21] In addition, bus routes 57 and 264 provide a 24-hour bus service.[20]

Tooting Broadway station features in the opening credits of the BBC comedy Citizen Smith and again in the closing sequence of the very last episode.[22]

The station is referenced in the title of the Kitchens of Distinction's song "On Tooting Broadway Station" from their third album The Death of Cool.[23]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ A duplication of parts of the Northern line's tunnels had first been considered in 1935 when new tunnels were proposed between Camden Town and Waterloo and between Balham and Kennington.[10] During the war, deep-level shelters were constructed beneath a number of Northern line stations so that they could be converted for use as part of the duplicate tunnels after the war.[11]
  2. ↑ Of the twelve proposed routes, only Route 8, "A South to North Link - East Croydon to Finsbury Park" was developed, eventually becoming the Victoria line.
  3. ↑ Holden's other stations on the Morden extension at Clapham South, Balham, Tooting Bec, Colliers Wood and South Wimbledon are also listed as Grade II.[12][13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLSX). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 Historic England. "Tooting Broadway Station (Including Above Ground Building and Sub Surface Platforms and Passages) (1065478)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Transport for London (December 2017). Standard Tube Map (PDF) (Map). Not to scale. Transport for London. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 January 2018.
  4. ↑ Google Maps - Tooting Broadway Underground Station
  5. ↑ Day & Reed 2010, p. 96.
  6. ↑ Martin 2013, p. 186.
  7. ↑ Orsini 2010.
  8. ↑ Inglis 1946, p. 16.
  9. 1 2 Inglis 1946, p. 17.
  10. ↑ Emmerson & Beard 2004, p. 16.
  11. ↑ Emmerson & Beard 2004, pp. 30–37.
  12. ↑ "Listed buildings and borough history". Wandsworth London Borough Council. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  13. ↑ Listed Buildings: A Guide for Owners (PDF) (Report). Merton London Borough Council. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  14. 1 2 Tooting Broadway Tube Station - Facilities
  15. 1 2 Tooting Broadway Underground Station
  16. ↑ Tube Facts - Tube Stations that only have escalators
  17. ↑ "Northern line timetable: From Tooting Broadway Underground Station to Tooting Bec Underground Station". Transport for London. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  18. ↑ "Northern line timetable: From Tooting Broadway Underground Station to Colliers Wood Underground Station". Transport for London. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  19. ↑ "Crossrail Route-October 2015".
  20. 1 2 "Buses from Tooting Broadway" (PDF). Transport for London. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  21. ↑ Tooting Broadway Underground Station - Bus
  22. ↑ Citizen Smith (BBC1 - title sequence)
  23. ↑ Allmusic review. Retrieved 28 March 2015.

Bibliography

  • Martin, Andrew (2013) [2012]. Underground Overground. Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-84668-478-4.
  • Day, John R; Reed, John (2010) [1963]. The Story of London's Underground. Capital Transport. ISBN 978-1-85414-341-9.
  • Emmerson, Andrew; Beard, Tony (2004). London's Secret Tubes. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-283-6.
  • Inglis, Charles (21 January 1946). Report to the Minister of War Transport. Ministry of War Transport/His Majesty's Stationery Office. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  • Orsini, Fiona (2010). Underground Journeys: Charles Holden's designs for London Transport (PDF). V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
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