Colliers Wood Underground Station - High Street Colliers Wood, London, UK
N 51° 25.080 W 000° 10.689
30U E 696206 N 5700088
Colliers Wood tube station serves London Underground's Northern Line. The entrance and ticket hall are located on the south east side of High Street Colliers Wood at the junction with Christchurch Road. The platforms and tracks are underground.
Waymark Code: WMMPJV
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/20/2014
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Wikipedia has an article about Colliers Wood tube station that tells us:
Colliers Wood is a London Underground station in South London. The station is on the Northern line, between Tooting Broadway and South Wimbledon stations. It is located at the corner of Merton High Street (A24) and Christchurch Road. The station is in Travelcard Zone 3.
The station was designed by Charles Holden and was 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.
The station is close to Merton Bus garage which opened in 1913.
London Bus routes 57; 131; 152; 200; 219; 470 and night route N155 serves the station.
The station is Grade II listed with the entry at the English Heritage website telling us:
LRT station. 1926. Designed by Charles Holden. Portland stone. Roof not visible. Symmetrical composition on corner site. Vestigial stripped classical manner. Tall ticket hall to corner with wide entrance below and lower single storey stone faced shops to left and right. Canted facade with fluted jambs to square headed entrance, with cantilevered canopy. Tripartite clerestory windows above,the three parts separated by corner columns with globular capitals, the LT motif "in the round." Vertical metal glazing bars with inset LT motif in stained glass. One of stations on 1926 extension to City and South London Underground Railway.