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About Trinity Road Station, Tooting Bec, London
For years, Tooting Bec Station (originally Trinity Road) was the backdrop to my daily routine. Living just five minutes away, I passed through this satellite entrance almost every weekday on my commute into central London.
This masterpiece of early 20th-century transit architecture opened in 1926 on the Morden extension of the City & South London Railway (now the Northern line). While the main station sits across the street, this satellite entrance on the east side was legendary architect Charles Holden’s solution to an awkward corner footprint. Holden topped the Portland stone facade with three glazed Underground roundels, making it the only station on the entire network with this triple-roundel feature, flooding the compact ticket hall with daylight and glowing like lanterns at night. The station was renamed Tooting Bec in 1950. Most current residents know nothing of its former name.
Its deceptively simple geometric angles proved troublesome to illustrate, taking at least four times longer than anticipated to capture the subtle, stepped Portland stone as it wrapped around the corners and cavities of the structure.
Name: Trinity Road Station (Now Tooting Bec)
Architect: Charles Holden
Opened: 13 September 1926
Services: Northern Line
Style: Art Deco, Modernist
All prints are presented on Hahnemühle German etching Giclée paper. Frames are solid wood from sustainable sources, manufactured to high standards.
Sizes available:
A4 - 21×30cm, 8×12"
A3 - 30×42cm, 12×17"
A2 - 42×59cm, 17×23"
A1 - 59×84cm, 23×33"