Stockwell tube station
Northern line and Victoria line · Zone 2 · Lambeth
About Stockwell station
London’s first successful deep-level tube ended here. The Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, ceremonially opened the City and South London Railway on 4 November 1890, with Stockwell as its southern terminus, and passengers began travelling on 18 December. T. P. Figgis designed the domed surface building, and two lifts, each carrying 50 people, served a single island platform. Stockwell stopped being a terminus when the line reached Clapham Common on 3 June 1900. Ahead of the Morden extension the old platforms closed in 1923, new ones opened to the south on 1 December 1924, Charles Holden designed a new surface building, and escalators replaced the lifts; trains still pass the original platform site.
The Victoria line arrived on 23 July 1971, with cross-platform interchange with the Northern line in both directions, a new surface building and a third escalator shaft. Abram Games’s tiled murals in the seat recesses show a swan, after the nearby Swan pub. Beneath the station lies one of eight wartime deep-level shelters: two tunnels split into two floors, completed in September 1942 and holding about 4,000 people. On 22 July 2005 Jean Charles de Menezes, an electrician wrongly identified as a suspect, was shot dead here by police; a memorial mosaic was unveiled at the station on 7 January 2010.
First and last trains from Stockwell
| Line and direction | Mon–Thu first – last | Friday first – last | Saturday first – last | Sunday first – last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern towards Morden | 06:05 – 00:50 | 06:05 – all night | 24 hours | all night – 00:01 |
| Northern towards Edgware, High Barnet or Mill Hill East | 05:31 to High Barnet – 00:21 to High Barnet | 05:31 to High Barnet – all night | 24 hours | all night – 23:28 to High Barnet |
| Victoria towards Brixton | 05:43 – 00:47 | 05:43 – all night | 24 hours | all night – 00:01 |
| Victoria towards Walthamstow Central or Seven Sisters | 05:29 – 00:30 | 05:29 – all night | 24 hours | all night – 23:54 |
Times are TfL’s published timetable departures from this station; on Saturday the list follows TfL’s “Saturdays and public holidays” timetable.
At the busiest hour on a weekday there are up to 31 Northern trains an hour per direction and 36 Victoria trains an hour per direction from Stockwell, counting both directions separately.
Connections
- Tube: change here between the Northern line and Victoria line.
Station facilities
What is near Stockwell station
Most people use Stockwell to change between the Northern and Victoria lines, which here is a matter of crossing the platform. At street level, Stockwell Memorial Gardens is about 100 m away and the Stockwell bus garage office about 200 m. One of the decorated entrance shafts to the wartime shelter stands in the middle of the junction of South Lambeth Road and Clapham Road and has become a local landmark.
| Place | Walk from the station |
|---|---|
| Stockwell Memorial Gardens | 100 m |
| Stockwell Bus Garage Office | 200 m |