12IAA. Morden Underground Station, London Road, Morden, London Borough of Merton Positioned in the short section of cutting between the station platforms and the Northern line's tunnel mouths are ten disused wall brackets (five on either side of the cutting) supporting elliptical angled reflector fittings that are similar in appearance to the Revo C5932 - C5941 range. The lights may date back to the station's opening in 1926, and the bracket is identical in appearance to the type seen behind the station building at South Wimbledon (the next station along), which opened in the same year. A larger shovel floodlight (not pictured here), resembling the Benjamin Duoflux, is positioned in the centre of the two tunnel mouths, looking back towards the platforms. This too is unlikely to operate in the modern era.

The right-hand bank of fittings is seen from the far end of the platforms. The two bagged-up objects in the foreground are signal heads that became redundant when the Northern line changed to Automatic Train Operation in the mid-2010s.

Modern bulkhead lights positioned below each bracket provide the illumination here these days.

The electricity supply to the old lights was also wall-mounted, with conductors strung between insulators positioned below each bracket to allow the supplies to be "tapped off" at each position.  The bulkhead lights are, instead, fed using cables clipped vertically to the structure.

The angled design of the reflectors would ensure that the light was concentrated forwards, rather than directly below each fitting.

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