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Morden tube station

Morden London Underground
Station entrance in the form of a white stone-clad box sitting on two substantial and wide stone blocks. The front facade of the box contains a large London Underground logo (red ring with blue horizontal bar across the centre containing the word "UNDERGROUND") in the centre. Set back behind the entrance and to both sides a four-storey office block with blue cladding rises up.
The station entrance
Morden is located in Greater London
Morden
Morden
Location of Morden in Greater London
Location Morden
Local authority Merton
Managed by London Underground
Number of platforms 3
Accessible Yes
Fare zone 4
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012 Increase 7.28 million
2013 Increase 7.70 million
2014 Increase 8.62 million
2015 Increase 9.28 million
Railway companies
Original company City and South London Railway
Key dates
1926 Opened
Other information
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WGS84 51°24′08″N 0°11′41″W / 51.4022°N 0.1948°W / 51.4022; -0.1948Coordinates: 51°24′08″N 0°11′41″W / 51.4022°N 0.1948°W / 51.4022; -0.1948
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Morden is a London Underground station in Morden in the London Borough of Merton. The station is the southern terminus for the Northern line and is the most southerly station on the Underground network. The next station north is South Wimbledon. The station is located on London Road (A24), and is in Travelcard Zone 4. Nearby are Morden Hall Park, the Baitul Futuh Mosque and Morden Park.

The station was one of the first modernist designs produced for the London Underground by Charles Holden. Its opening in 1926 contributed to the rapid development of new suburbs in what was then a rural part of Surrey with the population of the parish increasing nine-fold in the decade 1921–1931.

In the period following the end of First World War, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) began reviving a series of prewar plans for line extensions and improvements that had been postponed during the hostilities. Finance for the works was made possible by the government's Trade Facilities Act, 1921, which, as a means of alleviating unemployment, provided for the Treasury to underwrite the value of loans raised by companies for public works.

One of the projects that had been postponed was the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway (W&SR), a plan for a new surface line from Wimbledon to Sutton over which the UERL's District Railway had control. The UERL wished to maximise its use of the government's time-limited financial backing, and, in November 1922, presented bills to parliament to construct the W&SR in conjunction with an extension of the UERL's City and South London Railway (C&SLR) south from Clapham Common through Balham, Tooting and Merton.


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