Tooting Broadway (London Underground)
Tooting Broadway is an underground station on the London Underground in the London Borough of Wandsworth . It is located in the Travelcard tariff zone 3 in the center of the Tooting district. Tooting Broadway is the junction of four busy main streets, Upper Tooting Road in the northeast, Garratt Lane in the northwest, Tooting High Street in the southwest and Mitcham Road in the southeast. In 2013, 13.51 million passengers used this station served by Northern Line trains.
The station opened on September 13, 1926 as part of the extension from Clapham Common to Morden . Designed by Charles Holden , the station is a modernist style building made of Portland stone . The main facade is rounded, the tiles on the platforms and in the access routes have been preserved in their original state. The building has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1987 . In front of the entrance is a statue created in 1911 by the artist Louis Frederick Roslyn , which depicts King Edward VII and is also a listed building.
A special feature is that trains traveling south in Tooting Broadway can turn around if necessary, instead of continuing to the terminus Morden. For this purpose, the trains use a stump track between the two separate tunnels.
Web links
- Photo of the station building (1927)
- Photo of the construction of the station and the escalator shaft
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
- ^ Northern Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 24, 2013 .
- ^ Tooting Broadway station. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 24, 2013 .
- ^ Statue of Edward VII. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 24, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 39.9 ″ N , 0 ° 10 ′ 5.9 ″ W.