Tooting Bec Underground Station - Balham High Road, London, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
N 51° 26.130 W 000° 09.575
30U E 697421 N 5702083
Tooting Bec tube station serves London Underground's Northern Line. The station has two entrances on opposite sides of the junction formed by Trinity Road, Upper Tooting Road, Balham High Road, Tooting Bec Road and Stapleton Road.
Waymark Code: WMMPHM
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/20/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member veritas vita
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Wikipedia has an article about Tooting Bec tube station that tells us:

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.

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.

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

The station is Grade II listed with the entry at the English Heritage website telling us:

Tooting Bec Station (including above ground buildings and sub-surface platforms and passages). LRT station. 1926 by Charles Holden.

Astylar Portland stone corner building. Two street entrances with continual moulded lintel and canopy. Large triple window over with glazed roundel sign and tapering mullions with spherical capitals.

Ticket hall with wall tiling and trabeated ceiling. Secondary entrance building between Stapleton and Tooting Bec Roads in similar style.

Modern escalators. Sub-surface platforms and passages retain their original tiled decoration and many original signs. One of several stations on the Northern Line extension designed by Holden.

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