Location Tooting 2012 13.23 million 2014 15.11 million Opened 13 September 1926 Owner London Underground Architect Charles Holden | Managed by London Underground 2013 13.51 million 2015 15.74 million Fare zone 3 Number of platforms 2 | |
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Address London SW17 9PA, United Kingdom Similar Tooting Bec tube station, London Underground, Balham station, Colliers Wood tube station, Clapham Common tube station | ||
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.
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It is located on the corner of Tooting High Street (A24) and Mitcham Road (A217).
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.
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. 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. 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.
The Station today
The station is a Grade II listed building.
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). and access to the station is only via the escalators. There is also a Wifi service at the station. The station also has electronic whiteboards in the ticket hall and features a post-office style queuing for tickets.
Services
Train frequencies vary throughout the day, but generally operate every 2–4 minutes between 06:17 and 00:01 in both directions.
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.
Future Proposal
In 2013 it was announced that Transport for London had plans for Crossrail 2 and would stop at Tooting Broadway. Even during a consultation during 2014 the station remained on the route until October 2015 when it was dropped in favour of a new route via Balham.
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. In addition, bus routes 57 and 264 provide a 24-hour bus service.
In popular culture
Tooting Broadway station features in the opening credits of series 1, 2 and 3 of the BBC comedy Citizen Smith and again in the closing sequence of the very last episode.
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.