Clapham South tube station

Clapham South
Clapham South
	The station entrance
	Clapham South Location of Clapham South in Greater London
Location	Clapham
Local authority	London Borough of Wandsworth
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2 and 3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2014	8.47 million[1]
2015	8.58 million[1]
2016	8.80 million[1]
2017	8.65 million[1]
2018	8.03 million[2]
Key dates
1926	Opened (C&SLR)
Listed status
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1266140[3]
Added to list	16 June 1987
Other information
External links	TfL station info page;
WGS84	51.452778°N 0.147°W
	London transport portal

Clapham South is a station on London Underground's Northern line between Clapham Common and Balham. The station is located at the corner of Balham Hill (A24) and Nightingale Lane, at the southern edge of Clapham Common. It is in both Travelcard Zone 2 and Travelcard Zone 3.

History

The station was designed by Charles Holden and was opened on 13 September 1926 as the first station of the Morden extension of the City & South London Railway, which is now part of the Northern line. Other proposed names for the station prior to opening were "Balham North" and "Nightingale Lane".

The apartments above the station, named Westbury Court, were a later addition, built in the mid-1930s. The parade of shops along Balham Hill was extended as part of the same development using the same style as the original three closest to the station.

The station was refurbished in the 1990s, with new flooring, tiling and CCTV - albeit ensuring that original Charles Holden features were restored or reproduced. The restoration work was awarded a National Railway Heritage Award.[4]

It is one of eight London Underground stations with a deep-level air-raid shelter underneath it.[5] In 1948, the deep shelter was used as temporary accommodation for immigrants from the West Indies. The HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury in 1948 carrying 492 immigrants. London had a severe labour shortage after the war and the Colonial Office had sought to recruit a labour force from Jamaica. An advertisement had appeared in Jamaica's Daily Gleaner on 13 April 1948 offering transport to the UK. The Windrush was quickly filled. As there was no accommodation for all of the new arrivals, the Colonial Office housed many of them temporarily in the deep-level shelter at Clapham South.[6] The underground shelter opened its doors to the public in 2016.[7]

Connections

The station is served by London Buses routes 50, 155, 249, 355, G1, 690, and also by night route N155.

References

"Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007-2017)" (XLSX). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
"Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
Historic England. "Clapham South Station (Including Above Ground Station Building and Sub Surface Platforms and Passages) (1266140)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
"Clapham South Station Award For 60 Year Face Lift". London Transport. 13 March 1997. Archived from the original on 4 August 1997. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/exclusive-inside-clapham-souths-secret-wartime-tunnels-010616
Kushner, Tony; Lunn, Kenneth (1991). The Politics of Marginality: Race, the Radical Right and Minorities in Twentieth Century Britain. London: Routledge. p. 166. ISBN 978-0714633916. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/12105762/A-tour-of-the-WWII-Clapham-South-deep-level-shelter-in-pictures.html

Gallery

Northbound platform looking south
Southbound platform looking north
Roundel on the southbound platform
Uplighters on the escalators
One of the entrances to Clapham South deep level shelter; the other is on the Common

External links

London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
CharlesHolden.com Early photograph of station

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

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[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2007-1] "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007-2017)" (XLSX). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2018-2] "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.

[eh_1266140-3] Historic England. "Clapham South Station (Including Above Ground Station Building and Sub Surface Platforms and Passages) (1266140)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

[4] "Clapham South Station Award For 60 Year Face Lift". London Transport. 13 March 1997. Archived from the original on 4 August 1997. Retrieved 27 May 2020.

[5] ttps://www.timeout.com/london/blog/exclusive-inside-clapham-souths-secret-wartime-tunnels-010616

[6] Kushner, Tony; Lunn, Kenneth (1991). The Politics of Marginality: Race, the Radical Right and Minorities in Twentieth Century Britain. London: Routledge. p. 166. ISBN 978-0714633916. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

[7] ttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/12105762/A-tour-of-the-WWII-Clapham-South-deep-level-shelter-in-pictures.html