Tooting Broadway tube station

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Tooting Broadway
Tooting Broadway tube sign
Location
Place	Tooting
Local authority	Wandsworth

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	3
2006 annual usage	12.193 million †
2007 annual usage	13.186 million †
History
1926	Opened (C&SLR)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Tooting Broadway tube station is a London Underground station in Tooting, South London. The station is on the Northern Line, between Tooting Bec and Colliers Wood stations. It is located on the corner of Tooting High Street (A24) and Mitcham Road (A217). The station is in Travelcard Zone 3.

[edit] History

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 (now part of the Northern Line).

Southbound trains can terminate at Tooting Broadway on occasion rather than continue on to end of the line at Morden 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.

[edit] Transport connections

The following London Buses routes serve the station (times are Mon-Fri off-peak) (correct as of 6 May 2007)

44 (Tooting Station-Victoria) every 10 minutes
57 (Kingston-Streatham Hill) every 8 minutes
77 (Tooting-Waterloo) every 10 minutes
127 (Purley-Tooting) every 15 minutes
131 (Tooting Broadway-Kingston) every 8 minutes
155 (Tooting St. George's Hospital-Elephant & Castle) every 8 minutes
219 (Wimbledon-Clapham Junction) every 12 minutes
264 (Tooting St. George's Hospital-Croydon) every 10 minutes
270 (Mitcham Cricketers-Putney Bridge) every 10 minutes
280 (Tooting St. George's Hospital-Belmont) every 10 minutes
333 (Tooting-Elephant & Castle station) every 10 minutes
355 (Mitcham Cricketers-Brixton station) every 12 minutes
G1 (Shaftesbury Estate-Norbury) every 20 minutes

Night buses:

N44 (Sutton Green-Aldwych) running every 30 minutes from 2354-0518
57 (Kingston-Clapham Park) running every 30 minutes from 0000-04:00
N155 (Morden-Aldwych) running every 15 minutes from 0023-0523
264 (Tooting St. George's Hospital-Croydon) running about every 30 minutes from 0000-0500