Balham station
The station opened on 6 December 1926 as part of the Morden extension of the City and South London Railway south from Clapham Common. During the Second World War, Balham was one of many deep tube stations designated for civilian use as a air raid shelter. The Underground station buildings are listed Grade II.
About Balham station in brief
Balham is an interchange station formed of a range of underground entrances for the London Underground and a shared entrance with its National Rail station component. The station opened on 6 December 1926 as part of the Morden extension of the City and South London Railway south from Clapham Common. During the Second World War, Balham was one of many deep tube stations designated for civilian use as a air raid shelter. On the National Rail network it is 4 miles 52 chains from London Victoria. It is in Travelcard Zone 3 and is owned and operated separately with different ticket machines and gatelines. The tube can be accessed on each side of the Balham High Road leading east, where the track is on a mixture of light-brick high viaduct and earth embankment, quadruple track and on a brief east–west axis.
The National Rail Station is on the Brighton main line, four stops from Victoria. The Underground station buildings are listed Grade II and the station has a high brick wall along Balham Station Road on which are four cold cast bronze reliefs, “Impressions of Balham”. They were conceived and constructed by Christine Thomas and Julia Barton and installed in 1991 by Wandsworth Borough Council. They were designed by architect Charles Holden, who was selected by Frank Pick, general manager of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to design the stations after he was dissatisfied with designs produced by the UERL’s own architect, Stanley Heaps.
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