92-565: Tooting is a district in South London , forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth . It is located 5 miles (8 kilometres) south south-west of Charing Cross . Tooting has been settled since pre- Saxon times. The name is of Anglo-Saxon origin but the meaning is disputed. It could mean the people of Tota , in which context Tota may have been a local Anglo-Saxon chieftain. Alternatively it could be derived from an old meaning of
184-528: A Conservative Party challenge. Although the constituency boundaries include wards represented by both Labour and the Conservatives, the Tooting ward itself can be regarded as a Labour stronghold, electing a full slate of councillors from the party. Tooting has a large British Asian community and has gained the nickname "land of the curry mile" due to the concentration of South Asian restaurants. In
276-442: A conservation area . New redevelopment plans were first announced in 2013 by TfL, which proposed avoiding the existing station entrance and the conservation area by building a second entrance and interchange tunnels to the north, mostly on the site of a subsequently vacated infant school . In 2018, plans to upgrade and rebuild Camden Town station were placed indefinitely on hold, due to TfL's financial situation. As of 2022 , there
368-615: A manor held by the Abbey of Hellouin Bec , in Normandy, thus acquiring the "Bec" in its name. Its Domesday assets were 5 hides . It had 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 ploughlands and so was assessed as rendering £7. As with many of South London's suburbs, Tooting developed during the late Victorian period. Some development occurred in the Edwardian era but another large spurt in growth happened during
460-614: A comprehensive refurbishment of the line began – including track replacement, power upgrades, station modernisation (such as Mornington Crescent ) and the replacement of older rolling stock with new 1995 Stock thanks to a public–private partnership deal with Alstom . Throughout the 2000s, no plans were considered for extending the Northern line, as the PPP to upgrade the Underground did not include provision for line extensions within
552-556: A connection between Northern City Line and Finsbury Park station on the surface; an extension from Archway to the LNER line near East Finchley via new deep-level platforms below Highgate station ; and a short diversion from just before the LNER's Edgware station to the Underground's station of the same name. The peak-hour service pattern was to be 21 trains an hour each way on the High Barnet branch north of Camden Town, 14 of them via
644-502: A future station and Bushey Heath station's design was revised several times to ensure this option would remain available in the future. The project involved electrification of the surface lines (operated by steam trains at the time), the doubling of the original single-line section between Finchley Central and the proposed junction with the Edgware branch of the Northern line, and the construction of three new linking sections of track:
736-566: A new depot at Aldenham . The extension's route was that planned for the unbuilt Watford and Edgware Railway (W&ER), using rights obtained from the earlier purchase of the W&;ER (which had long intended an extension of the EH&;LR Edgware route towards Watford ). This also provided the potential for further extension in the future; Bushey 's town planners reserved space in Bushey village for
828-412: A newly installed set of points had allowed the leading wheel of the last carriage to climb the rail and derail. The track geometry at the derailment site is a very tight bend and tight tunnel bore, which precludes the normal solution for this sort of geometry of canting the track by raising the height of one rail relative to the other. In August 2010, a defective rail grinding train caused disruption on
920-495: A point just north of Morden station which was constructed in a cutting. The line then goes under the wide station forecourt and public road outside the station to the depot. The extension was initially planned to continue to Sutton over part of the route for the unbuilt Wimbledon and Sutton Railway (in which the UERL held a stake) but agreements were made with Southern Railway to end the extension at Morden. Southern Railway built
1012-421: A population of 1,329,000. This definition is used by organisations such as Connexions . Between 2008 and 2011 it was replaced with a South East sub-region consisting of Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley and a South West sub-region consisting of Croydon, Kingston, Lambeth, Merton, Sutton, Richmond and Wandsworth. In 2011 a new south London region was created consisting of Bromley, Croydon,
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#17327918924591104-434: Is 91.5 m × 30 m (300 ft × 98 ft). Tooting shares two football clubs with nearby Mitcham : Tooting & Mitcham FC and Tooting & Mitcham Wanderers FC. A greyhound racing track, the ' Wimbledon Stadium ', was narrowly in Tooting on Plough Lane. AFC Wimbledon moved to the site in 2021. Tooting has two indoor markets, with numbers of permanent stalls. The entrances of both are situated on
1196-400: Is already severely overcrowded at weekend peak times, and a split would increase the number of passengers wishing to change trains at the station. In 2005, London Underground failed to secure planning permission for a comprehensive upgrade plan for Camden Town tube station that would have involved demolition of the existing station entrance and several other surface-level buildings, all within
1288-604: Is currently being considered by TfL as a stop on the future Crossrail 2 development. In addition to relieving congestion on the Northern Line, this would provide Tooting with a rapid and direct connection to major London stations such as Clapham Junction, Victoria, Tottenham Court Road and Euston. Totterdown Fields estate was designated a conservation area on 19 September 1978. It was the first London County Council cottage estate built between 1901 and 1911, containing 1244 individual houses over 38 acres (15 ha). It
1380-527: Is currently no plan to split the line. In October 2003, a train derailed at Camden Town . Although no one was hurt, points, signals and carriages were damaged. Concern was raised about the safety of the Tube, given the derailment at Chancery Lane earlier in 2003. A joint report by the Underground and its maintenance contractor Tube Lines concluded that poor track geometry was the main cause, and therefore extra friction arising out of striations (scratches) on
1472-454: Is only one station above ground (Morden tube station) while the rest of this part of the line is deep below ground. The short section to Morden depot is also above ground. This is partly because its southern extension into the outer suburbs was not done by taking over an existing surface line as was generally the case with routes such as the Central , Jubilee and Piccadilly lines . Apart from
1564-558: Is the oldest section of deep-level tube line on the network. Nearly 340 million passenger journeys were recorded in 2019 on the Northern line, making it the busiest on the Underground, although this is distorted due to having 2 branches within Central London, both of which are less busy than the core sections of other lines. It has 18 of the system's 31 stations south of the River Thames . There are 52 stations in total on
1656-481: The 2011 census , Tooting was White or White British (47%), Asian or Asian British (28.8%), Black or Black British (15.5%), Mixed/multiple ethnic groups (5%), and Other ethnic group (2.9%). The largest single ethnicity is White British (32.4%). The main spoken first languages are English, followed by Urdu , Punjabi , Polish and Gujarati . Tooting is positioned on the Northern line —with stations at
1748-669: The Bakerloo and District lines . In 1913, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL), owner of the CCE&;HR, took over the C&;SLR although they remained separate companies. During the early 1920s a series of works were carried out which involved connecting the C&SLR and CCE&HR tunnels to enable an integrated service to be operated. The first of these new tunnels, between
1840-591: The High Barnet branch onwards from East Finchley (over which tube services started on 14 April 1940) and the new deep-level Highgate station opened on 19 January 1941. The single track LNER line to Edgware was electrified as far as Mill Hill East , including the Dollis Brook Viaduct , opening as a tube service on 18 May 1941 to serve the barracks there thus forming the Northern line as it is today. The new depot at Aldenham had already been built and
1932-705: The Merton and Morden Urban District , but now in the London Borough of Merton ). The Edgware extension used plans dating back to 1901 for the Edgware and Hampstead Railway (E&HR) which the UERL's subsidiary, the London Electric Railway , had taken over in 1912. It extended the CCE&HR line from its terminus at Golders Green to Edgware in two stages: to Hendon Central in 1923 and to Edgware in 1924. The line crossed open countryside and ran mostly on viaduct from Golders Green to Brent and then on
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#17327918924592024-636: The Parkland Walk , is highly valued by walkers and cyclists, and suggestions in the 1990s that it could, in part, become a road were met with fierce opposition. Another pressure group has proposed using the track bed further north, as part of the North and West London Light Railway . The connection between Drayton Park and the surface platforms at Finsbury Park was opened in 1976, when the Northern City Line became part of British Rail . In
2116-492: The River Thames . The region consists of the boroughs , in whole or in part, of Bexley , Bromley , Croydon , Greenwich , Kingston , Lambeth , Lewisham , Merton , Richmond , Southwark , Sutton and Wandsworth . South London originally emerged from Southwark , first recorded as Suthriganaweorc , meaning 'fort of the men of Surrey '. From Southwark , London then extended further down into northern Surrey and western Kent . South London began at Southwark at
2208-535: The Tower Subway . It was the first of the Underground's lines to be constructed by boring deep below the surface and the first to be operated by electric traction. The railway opened in November 1890 from Stockwell to a now-disused station at King William Street . This was inconveniently placed and unable to cope with the company's traffic so in 1900 a new route to Moorgate via Bank was opened. By 1907,
2300-523: The Tube map . It carries more passengers per year than any other Underground line – around 340 million in 2019 – making it the busiest tube line in London . The Northern line is unique on the Underground network in having two different routes through central London, two southern branches and two northern branches. Despite its name, it does not serve the northernmost stations on
2392-571: The West End and the City . This appears to have undermined traffic on the Alexandra Palace branch, still run with steam haulage to Kings Cross via Finsbury Park, as Highgate (low-level) was but a short bus ride away and car traffic was much lighter than it would become later. Consequently, the line from Finsbury Park to Muswell Hill and Alexandra Palace via the surface platforms at Highgate
2484-538: The West End and the other via Bank in the City , continue and then join at Kennington in Southwark . At Kennington the line again divides into two branches, one to each of the southern termini – at Morden , in the borough of Merton , and at Battersea Power Station in Wandsworth . For most of its length the Northern line is a deep tube line. The portion between Stockwell and Borough opened in 1890 and
2576-533: The 1920s and 30s. The Member of Parliament for Tooting is Dr Rosena Allin-Khan of the Labour Party , who was first elected in a 2016 by-election to represent the parliamentary constituency of Tooting . This followed the election of her predecessor Sadiq Khan to the role of Mayor of London in May 2016. Since the creation of the Tooting seat, it has been held by Labour, often with a marginal result against
2668-427: The 1980s, a southern extension of the line to Peckham was proposed, as part of a review of potential extensions of Underground lines. The proposal was not proceeded with. By the early 1990s, the line had deteriorated due to years of under-investment and the use of old rolling stock , most of which dated back to the early 1960s. The line gained the nickname "Misery Line" due to its perceived unreliability. In 1995,
2760-489: The Battersea and Nine Elms extension work), 19 new trains will be added to the existing fleet of 106 trains, though additional trains beyond the extra 19 trains may be required to provide a full service for the new Battersea extension. Although two other London Underground lines operate fully underground, the Northern line is unusual in that it is a deep-level tube line that serves the outer suburbs of South London yet there
2852-423: The C&SLR had been further extended at both ends to run from Clapham Common to Euston . The CCE&HR (commonly known as the "Hampstead Tube") was opened in 1907 and ran from Charing Cross (known for many years as Strand) via Euston and a junction at Camden Town to Golders Green and Highgate (now known as Archway ). It was extended south by one stop to Embankment in 1914 to form an interchange with
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2944-466: The C&SLR's Euston station and the CCE&HR's station at Camden Town, had originally been planned in 1912 but was delayed by the First World War. Construction began in 1922 and this first tunnel opened in 1924. The second connection linking the CCE&HR's Embankment and C&SLR's Kennington stations opened in 1926. It provided a new intermediate station at Waterloo to connect to
3036-520: The Charing Cross branch and seven via the Bank branch. 14 would have continued on beyond Finchley Central, seven each on the High Barnet and Edgware branches. An additional seven trains an hour would have served the High Barnet branch but continued via Highgate High-Level and Finsbury Park to Moorgate, a slightly shorter route to the city. It does not seem to have been intended to run through trains to
3128-403: The Charing Cross branch, after it travelled four miles in 13 minutes without a driver. The train was being towed to the depot after becoming faulty. At Archway station , the defective train became detached and ran driverless until coming to a stop at an incline near Warren Street station . This caused morning rush-hour services to be suspended on this branch. All passenger trains were diverted via
3220-680: The MR's subsidiary the Great Northern & City Railway became part of the Underground as the Northern City Line. It ran underground from Moorgate to Finsbury Park . In preparation for the Northern Heights Plan it was operated as part of the Northern line, although it was never connected to the rest of the line. The resulting line became known as the Morden–Edgware line, although a number of alternative names were also mooted in
3312-521: The Norman period, it came into the possession of the De Gravenel family, after whom it was named Tooting Graveney . Until minor changes in the 19th century it consisted of 2 km ( 3 ⁄ 4 sq mi). The ancient parish of Tooting Graveney included the southern part of what is now Streatham. Upper Tooting, or Tooting Bec (for centuries administered as part of Streatham), appears as
3404-479: The Northern line was contracted to be completed before the 2012 Olympics . It was then undertaken in-house, and TfL predicted the upgrade would be complete by the end of 2014. The first section of the line (West Finchley to High Barnet) was transferred to the new signalling system on 26 February 2013 and the line became fully automated on 1 June 2014, with the Chalk Farm to Edgware via Golders Green section being
3496-428: The Northern line was extended to serve the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station . Partially funded by private developers, the £1.2bn project extended the Charing Cross branch of the line for 3.2 km (2.0 miles) from Kennington to Battersea Power Station, with an intermediate stop at Nine Elms. Approved by Wandsworth Council in 2010 and TfL in 2014, the construction of the line began in 2015. Tunnelling for
3588-529: The Northern line's 1938 Stock fleet, they were supplemented with newly built 1972 Mark 1 Stock trains, which all served the line at the same time. 1972 Mark 2 stock trains also ran on this line until going to the Jubilee line; they were then moved to the Bakerloo line, where they remain in service. The few 1956 Stock trains were briefly replaced by 1962 Stock transferred from the Central line in 1995, before
3680-563: The PPP contracts. The Northern line was originally scheduled to switch to automatic train operation in 2012, using the same SelTrac S40 system as used since 2009 on the Jubilee line and for a number of years on the Docklands Light Railway . Originally the work was to follow on from the Jubilee line so as to benefit from the experience of installing it there, but that project was not completed until spring 2011. Work on
3772-568: The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames, Merton, Sutton, Wandsworth, Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham. South London is, like other parts of London and the UK in general, a temperate maritime climate according to the Köppen climate classification system . Three Met Office weather stations currently collect climate data south of the river; Kew, Hampton and Kenley Airfield, on
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3864-619: The Thames. Often snow can be seen to lie on the North Downs near Croydon when central London is snow free. The record high temperature at Greenwich is 37.5 °C (99.5 °F) recorded during August 2003. Sunshine is notably lower than other London area weather stations (by about 50–100 hours a year), suggesting Greenwich may be a fog trap in winter, and that the hillier land to the south may obscure early morning and late evening sunshine. The highest temperature recorded across south London
3956-529: The Tower' (East London) . The area now usually referred to as North London developed later. As late as the mid 18th century, however, there were no other bridges crossing the river and as a result urban growth was considerably slower in the south than in areas north of the Thames . The opening of Westminster Bridge and other subsequent bridges to the west encouraged growth in the south-west, but only Tower Bridge
4048-436: The Underground, though it does serve the southernmost station at Morden , the terminus of one of the two southern branches. The line's northern termini, all in the London Borough of Barnet , are at Edgware and High Barnet ; Mill Hill East is the terminus of a single-station branch line off the High Barnet branch. The two main northern branches run south to join at Camden Town where two routes, one via Charing Cross in
4140-601: The Vikings. Southwark was also known as the Borough due to be it being an incorporated (nationally represented) Borough from 1295. From 1550 to 1899 it was administered as part of the City of London and referred to as the ward of Bridge Without . In 1720, John Strype's 'Survey of London' described Southwark as one of the then four distinct areas of London; in it he describes the City of London , Westminster (West London) , Southwark (South London) , and 'That Part Beyond
4232-563: The area are the: Aboyne/Holborn and Hazelhurst with smaller estates including: Bevill Allen Close, Burtop Road, Copeland House, Flowersmead, Newlands and Tooting Grove. A large open area, popularly known as the Tooting Commons , lies at the northern end of Tooting. Historically this was two separate open spaces: Tooting Graveney Common (formerly part of Tooting Graveney parish), and Tooting Bec Common (formerly part of Streatham parish). The commons are home to Tooting Bec Lido , which
4324-580: The area, and the potential demand for services from Bushey Heath thus vanished. Passenger numbers also dropped on the then- BR 's Mill Hill and Alexandra Palace branches, so it was useless to electrify them. Available funds were directed towards completing the eastern extension of the Central line instead, and the Northern Heights plan was dropped on 9 February 1954. Aldenham depot was converted into an overhaul facility for buses. The implemented service from High Barnet branch gave good access both to
4416-429: The area. The 12 boroughs included, in whole or part are: (Outer London for statistics) A small area of land, on which the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge stands, is not part of Southwark. It forms part of the City of London , a sui generis local authority which is mainly located north of the Thames. The term 'south London' has been used for a variety of formal purposes with the boundaries defined according to
4508-471: The core central underground tunnels, part of the section between Hendon and Colindale is also underground. As bicycles are not allowed in tunnel sections (even if no station is in that section) as they would hinder evacuation, they are limited to High Barnet – East Finchley, the Mill Hill East branch, Edgware – Colindale and Hendon Central – Golders Green. There are also time-based restrictions for
4600-480: The earlier central London stations). Clapham South was extended upwards soon after its construction with a block of apartments; Morden was extended upwards in the 1960s with a block of offices. All the stations on the extension, except Morden itself, are Grade II listed buildings . After the UERL and the Metropolitan Railway became part of the new unified London Passenger Transport Board in 1933,
4692-494: The entire Northern line fleet was replaced with 1995 Stock between 1998 and 2000. Today, all Northern line trains consist of 1995 Stock in the Underground livery of red, white and blue. In common with the other deep-level lines, the trains are the smaller of the two loading gauges used on the system. 1995 stock has automated announcements and quick-close doors. If the proposed split of the line takes place (initial estimates of 2018 having been abandoned to focus on completion of
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#17327918924594784-503: The ex-Northern City branch from Edgware via Finchley Central. Seven trains an hour would have served the Alexandra Palace branch, to/from Moorgate via Highgate High-Level. In addition to the 14 through trains described the ex-Northern City branch would have had 14 four-car shuttle trains an hour. Work began in the late 1930s and was in progress on all fronts by the outbreak of the Second World War . The tunnelling northwards from
4876-499: The fashion of the contraction of Baker Street & Waterloo Railway to "Bakerloo", such as "Edgmor", "Mordenware", "Medgeway" and "Edgmorden". With Egyptology very much in fashion after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, there was also a proposal to call the line the Tootancamden Line as it passed through both Tooting and Camden. It was eventually named the Northern line from 28 August 1937, reflecting
4968-544: The first half of the 20th century, towns in the Home Counties such as Kingston, Croydon and Bromley gradually coalesced with South London, until Greater London was formed in 1965. A significant feature of south London's economic geography is that while there are more than thirty bridges linking the area with West London and the City , there is only one, Tower Bridge , linking the area with East London . Very little of London's underground rail network lies south of
5060-424: The glass screens are surmounted by a capital formed as a three-dimensional version of the roundel. The large expanses of glass above the entrances ensure that the ticket halls are bright and lit from within at night, creating a welcoming feel. The first and last new stations on the extension, Clapham South and Morden, include a parade of shops and were designed with structures capable of being built above (like many of
5152-492: The last part of the line to switch to ATO. In January 2018, Transport for London announced that it would double the period during which it runs peak evening services in the central London section to tackle overcrowding. There would now be 24 trains per hour on both central London branches and the northern branches, as well as 30 trains per hour on the Kennington to Morden section between 5 pm and 7 pm. Since
5244-527: The line except between Kennington and Morden, between Camden Town and Finchley Central and on the Edgware branch where there will be 24 tph. As of November 2022, off-peak services are the similar to peak services, minus the four hourly trains that run from Morden to the northern branches via Charing Cross: This service pattern provides 16 tph between Finchley Central and High Barnet, 4 tph between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East, 10 tph between Kennington and Battersea Power Station and 20 tph everywhere else on
5336-423: The line further southwards, and then northwards in the 1930s, would have incorporated parts of the routes of two further companies. From the 1930s to the 1970s, the tracks of a seventh company were also managed as a branch of the Northern line. An extension of the Charing Cross branch from Kennington to Battersea opened on 20 September 2021, giving the line a second southern branch. There are also proposals to split
5428-508: The line into separate lines following the opening of the new link to Battersea. The core of the Northern line evolved from two railway companies: the City & South London Railway (C&SLR) and the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR). The C&SLR was London's first electric hauled deep-level tube railway. It was built under the supervision of James Henry Greathead , who had been responsible (with Peter W. Barlow ) for
5520-591: The line opened, it was served by 1906 Stock . This was replaced by Standard stock which was in turn replaced by 1938 stock as part of the New Works Programme, later supplemented with identical 1949 Stock . When the Piccadilly line was extended to Heathrow Airport in the 1970s, its 1959 Stock and 1956 Stock (prototypes of the 1959 Stock) trains were transferred to the Northern line. As there were not enough 1956 and 1959 Stock trains to replace
5612-402: The line, of which 38 have platforms below ground. The line has a complicated history. Its longtime structure of two main northern branches, two central branches, and southern unification, reflects its genesis as three separate railways which were combined in the 1920s and 1930s. An extension in the 1920s used a route originally planned by a fourth company. Abandoned plans from the 1920s to extend
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#17327918924595704-422: The line. Since 2016, the Northern line has operated Night Tube services on Friday and Saturday nights between the Edgware and High Barnet termini and Morden, via the Charing Cross branch only. Trains run every 15 minutes on each of the northern branches, combining to give eight trains per hour between Camden Town and Morden. There is no Night Tube service on the Mill Hill East, Bank, or Battersea branches. When
5796-451: The lyric "there's no fishing, there’s no shooting dear / and no cyclists fresh from Tooting dear", which they also recorded that year. The Ealing Studios film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), starring Alec Guinness , references Tooting Bec as the residence of one of the characters. The BBC comedy series Hugh & I (1962–67) was set in the fictional Lobelia Avenue in Tooting. The BBC comedy series Citizen Smith (1977–80)
5888-527: The main line station there and the Bakerloo line . The smaller diameter tunnels of the C&SLR were also enlarged to match the standard diameter of the CCE&HR and other deep tube lines. In conjunction with the works to integrate the two lines, two major extensions were undertaken: northwards to Edgware in Middlesex (now in the London Borough of Barnet ) and southwards to Morden in Surrey (then in
5980-444: The mid-autumn of 2016, a 24-hour " Night Tube " service has run on Friday and Saturday nights from Edgware and High Barnet to Morden via the Charing Cross branch; service is suspended on the Bank branch during these times. Trains run every eight minutes between Morden and Camden Town and every 15/16 minutes between Camden Town and Edgware/High Barnet. Labour disputes delayed the planned start date of September 2015. In September 2021,
6072-405: The original Highgate station (now Archway ) had been completed, and the service to the rebuilt surface station at East Finchley started on 3 July 1939 but without the opening of the intermediate (new) Highgate Station at the site of the LNER's station of the same name. Further progress was disrupted by the start of the war; however enough development had been made to complete the electrification of
6164-464: The peak; the northern branches to Edgware and High Barnet cannot be separated until Camden Town station is upgraded to cope with the numbers of passengers changing trains. The extension to Battersea would allow the Charing Cross branch to terminate at Battersea Power Station. The proposed split of the Northern line would require Camden Town station to be expanded and upgraded, as the station
6256-778: The planned addition of the Northern Heights lines. In June 1935 the LPTB announced the New Works Programme , an ambitious plan to expand the Underground network which included the integration of a complex of existing London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) lines north of Highgate through the Northern Heights. These lines, built in the 1860s and 1870s by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EH&LR) and its successors, ran from Finsbury Park to Edgware via Highgate, with branches to Alexandra Palace and High Barnet . The line taken over would be extended beyond Edgware to Brockley Hill , Elstree South and Bushey Heath with
6348-449: The project was completed in 2017, and the extension opened on 20 September 2021. Provision has been made for a future extension to Clapham Junction railway station . As of September 2021, morning peak southbound services are: This service pattern provides 20 tph between Finchley Central and High Barnet, 4 tph between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East, 7 tph between Kennington and Battersea Power Station and 22 tph everywhere else on
6440-472: The purposes of the designation. In 2017 the government asked the Boundary Commission for England to reconsider the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies. The commission's study, was to start with existing regions of England and then group the local authorities within that area into sub-regions for further sub-division. The south London sub-region included the 11 boroughs which lay south of
6532-480: The river, largely due to the challenging geology; however, 21st-century technology makes tunnelling much cheaper (though stations are still expensive) and this may lead to an improved underground provision in south London with the Crossrail 2 line proposed alongside extensions to the Northern and Bakerloo Lines . South London contains an extensive overground rail network and all of London's trams operate within
6624-513: The river, plus the parts of cross-river Richmond upon Thames that did so. An earlier 2013 study, whose recommendations were not adopted, took a different approach by including all of Richmond in its south London sub-region. For the purposes of progress reporting on the London Plan , there was a south London sub-region in operation from 2004 to 2008 consisting of Bromley, Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond and Sutton. In 2001 this area had
6716-517: The same street, Tooting High Street, only a few metres apart. They both have many types of outlets, but since the 2010s have also developed a focus on street food stalls. Tooting Market is the smaller of the two; the other, The Broadway Market , is one of the largest of London's indoor markets, having more than ninety stalls, and has been active since 1936. In André Charlot 's West End revue The Charlot Show of 1926 , Jessie Matthews and Henry Lytton, Jnr. sang "Silly Little Hill", which features
6808-477: The second, at Morden , is south of Morden tube station and is the larger of the two. The other two are at Edgware and Highgate. The Highgate depot is on the former LNER branch to Alexandra Palace. There was originally a depot at Stockwell, but this closed in 1915. There are sidings at High Barnet for stabling trains overnight. Since the 2000s, TfL has aspired to split the Northern line into two separate routes. Running trains between all combinations of branches and
6900-480: The sections where bicycles are allowed. The tunnel from Morden to East Finchley via Bank, 17 miles 528 yards (27.841 km), was for a time the longest rail tunnel in the world. Other tunnels, including the Channel Tunnel that links the UK and France, are now longer. The Northern line is serviced by four depots. The main one is at Golders Green , adjacent to Golders Green tube station, while
6992-444: The southern edge of the urban area. Long term climate observations dating back to 1763 are available for Greenwich, although observations ceased here in 2003. Temperatures increase towards the Thames, firstly because of the urban warming effect of the surrounding area, but secondly due to altitude decreasing towards the river, meaning the southern margins of south London are often a couple of degrees cooler than those areas adjacent to
7084-585: The southern end of London Bridge , the first permanent crossing over the river, with early development of the area being a direct result of the existence and location of the bridge . Southwark was first known as Suthriganaweorc , the fortress of the men of Surrey , mentioned in the Burghal Hidage as part of military system created by Alfred the Great to defeat the Great Heathen Army of
7176-508: The surface line from Wimbledon to Sutton in the 1930s via South Merton and St. Helier. The tube extension itself opened in 1926 with seven new stations all designed by Charles Holden in a modern style. Originally Stanley Heaps was to design the stations, but after seeing the designs Frank Pick (Assistant Joint Manager of the UERL) decided that Holden should take over the project. With the exception of Morden and Clapham South , where more land
7268-460: The surface, apart from a short tunnel north of Hendon Central. Five new stations were built to pavilion-style designs by Stanley Heaps , head of the Underground's Architects Office, stimulating the rapid northward expansion of suburban developments in the following years. The engineering of the Morden extension of the C&SLR from Clapham Common to Morden was more demanding; it runs in tunnels to
7360-522: The top and the bottom of the hill that slopes down the High Street, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway . Tooting is also served by National Rail at Tooting railway station providing a direct link south to Sutton via Wimbledon , and north to Farringdon , St Pancras and on to Luton . It also has several bus links, with routes to and from Central London , Richmond, Croydon , Sutton and Kingston amongst others. Tooting Broadway tube station
7452-529: The two central sections, as at present, means only 24 trains an hour can run through each of the central sections at peak times, because merging trains have to wait for each other at the junctions at Camden Town and Kennington . Completely segregating the routes could allow 36 trains an hour on all parts of the line, increasing capacity by around 25%. TfL has already separated the Charing Cross and Bank branches during off-peak periods; however, four trains per hour still run to and from Morden via Charing Cross in
7544-483: The verb to tout , to look out. There may have been a watchtower here on the road to London and hence the people of the look-out post. The Romans built a road, which was later named Stane Street by the English, from London (Londinium) to Chichester (Noviomagus Regnorum), and which passed through Tooting. Tooting High Street is built on this road. In Saxon times, Tooting and Streatham (then Toting-cum-Stretham)
7636-578: Was 38.1 °C (100.6 °F) on the same occasion at Kew Gardens. Although the Met Office accepts a higher reading from Brogdale in Kent, many have questioned the accuracy of this and regard the Kew reading as the most reliable highest UK temperature reading. Northern line The Northern line is a London Underground line that runs between North London and South London . It is printed in black on
7728-493: Was available, the new stations were built on confined corner sites at main road junctions in areas that had been already developed. Holden made good use of this limited space and designed striking buildings. The street-level structures are of white Portland stone with tall double-height ticket halls, with the London Underground roundel made up in coloured glass panels in large glazed screens. The stone columns framing
7820-545: Was built to the east of London Bridge , so south-east London grew more slowly, at least until the Surrey Commercial Docks were built. The development of a dense network of railway lines in the mid nineteenth century significantly accelerated growth. The County of London was formed in 1899, which incorporated these boroughs south of the river: Wandsworth, Lambeth, Battersea, Camberwell, Southwark, Bermondsey, Deptford, Lewisham, Greenwich and Woolwich. During
7912-653: Was closed altogether to passenger traffic in 1954. This contrasts with the decision to electrify the Epping-Ongar branch of the Central line, another remnant of the New Works programme, run as a tube-train shuttle from 1957. A local pressure group, the Muswell Hill Metro Group, campaigns to reopen this route as a light-rail service. So far there is no sign of movement on this issue: the route, now
8004-451: Was filmed at St George's Hospital in Tooting. In the BBC comedy drama Fleabag , the title character's sister Claire says she is from Tooting. In the second season of Apple TV comedy Ted Lasso , Tooting is referenced as the home of a fictional Greek restaurant called A Taste of Athens. South London South London is the southern part of Greater London , England , south of
8096-685: Was given to the Abbey of Chertsey . Later, Suene (Sweyn), believed to be a Viking , may have been given all or part of the land. In 933, King Æthelstan is thought to have confirmed lands including Totinge (Tooting) to Chertsey Abbey. Tooting appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Totinges : Lower Tooting was held from Chertsey Abbey by Haimo the Sheriff (of Kent ) when its assets were 1 church, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 ploughlands of land and 5 acres (2 hectares) of meadow . Its people were called to render £4 per year to their overlords . Later in
8188-708: Was influenced by Ebenezer Howard 's Garden city movement and the Arts and Crafts movement. As previously mentioned, Totterdown Fields estate has considerable historical significance, being the first "cottage estate" within London and later protected from redevelopment through its designation as a conservation area. Within the London Borough of Wandsworth, Tooting has the fourth-highest number of social housing accommodation after Roehampton , Battersea and Southfields in that order. Notable large post-modern estates within
8280-549: Was named after Tooting. A geologic map of Tooting Crater was published in 2015 by the U.S. Geological Survey . The phrase "Ting Tong from Tooting" is associated with the character Ting Tong from the UK comedy sketch show Little Britain . Tooting was the setting for the eponymous 2013 British-Tamil crime drama Gangs of Tooting Broadway . In the film Johnny English Reborn , Agent Tucker lives in Tooting. Channel 4 's award-winning documentary series 24 Hours in A&;E
8372-503: Was set in Tooting and popularised the cry "Freedom for Tooting!". The lead character in the series, Wolfie Smith ( Robert Lindsay ), was the founder of a fictional revolutionary socialist political organisation, the Tooting Popular Front. The Kitchens of Distinction (who formed in the area) recorded "On Tooting Broadway Station" on their album The Death of Cool (1992). In 2005, a 28 km diameter crater on Mars
8464-532: Was used to build Halifax bombers. Work on the other elements of the plan was suspended late in 1939. Work on the extension from Edgware to Bushey Heath including work on a viaduct and a tunnel started in June 1939, but was stopped after war broke out. After the war, the area beyond Edgware was made part of the Metropolitan Green Belt , largely preventing the anticipated residential development in
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