Clapham Common tube station

Clapham Common
Western entrance
Clapham Common Location of Clapham Common in Greater London
Location	Clapham
Local authority	Lambeth
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	9.06 million
2012	9.21 million
2013	8.94 million
2014	8.94 million
Key dates
1900 (1900)	Opened as terminus (C&SLR)
1926	Became through station
Listed status
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1065005
Added to list	27 March 1981
Other information
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Clapham Common is a London Underground station in Clapham within the London Borough of Lambeth. It is on the Northern line, between Clapham North and Clapham South stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

History

The new glass entrance pavilion at Clapham Common South Side

The station is at the eastern tip of Clapham Common and was opened in June 1900 as the new southern terminus of the City & South London Railway, which was extended from Stockwell. It remained the terminus until the Morden extension was opened in 1926. Apart from a small domed entrance building on the tip of the narrow triangular island formed by The Pavement and Clapham Common South Side and the new glass entrance pavilion, the station is entirely underground.

A curved steel and glass pavilion was built on the south-east end of Clapham Common South Side by architects firm Aukett Fitzroy Robinson. This links to the below-ground ticket hall via a pedestrian tunnel under the road.

The station today

The island platform looking north, showing the narrow width of the platform(s) similar to Clapham North

The clock tower at Clapham Common station.

The station has two entrances, one at the west with a dome-shaped entrance and one at the east with a curved steel and glass pavilion. There is also a clock tower next to the western entrance.

Clapham Common is one of two remaining deep-level stations on the underground that has an island platform in tunnel serving both the northbound and southbound lines, the other being Clapham North.

Clapham Common is one of eight London Underground stations that have a deep-level air-raid shelter underneath them. Both entrances to the shelter are north of the station on Clapham High Street.

Services and connections

Train frequencies vary throughout the day, but generally operate every 2–6 minutes between 06:09 and 00:21 in both directions.

London Bus routes 35, 37, 50, 88, 137, 155, 249, 322, 345 and 417, 689 and 690 and night routes N35, N137 and N155 serve the station.

External links

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive Station in 1925

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Clapham South towards Morden		Northern line		Clapham North towards Edgware, Mill Hill East or High Barnet