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Balham tube station is a station on London Underground 's Northern Line located between Clapham South and Tooting Bec stations. The surface building was designed by the architect Charles Holden . The station opened in 1926 as part of the Morden Extension of the line. The station is in Travelcard Zone 3 . Balham station has entrances on the east and west sides of Balham High Street linked by a pedestrian subway. Regional rail services also run from the adjacent Balham Railway Station . On October 14 , 1940 , during World War II , a bomb fell in the road above the station, with the blast penetrating into the tunnel 9 metres below. The water mains and sewage pipes were broken, causing flooding and the loss of 65 lives. The station and the tracks between Clapham South and Tooting Bec were closed until January 1941 . For 80 years, roughly from the early 1900's to the late 1980's, there were newspaper stands outside either entrance to the train station operated under the ownership of the local Briggs family. Initially these were operated by William Bartholemew Briggs and subsequently by his son Dennis William Briggs. EXTERNAL LINKS London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive |
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