South Tottenham railway station

South Tottenham
South Tottenham Location of South Tottenham in Greater London
Location	South Tottenham
Local authority	London Borough of Haringey
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	STO
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
OSI	Seven Sisters
National Rail annual entry and exit
2009–10	0.225 million
2010–11	0.442 million
2011–12	0.658 million
2012–13	0.800 million
2013–14	1.002 million
2014–15	1.047 million
Key dates
1871	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
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South Tottenham is a railway station on the east-west Gospel Oak to Barking Line of the London Overground. It is located on the eastern side of the north-south A10 High Road in Tottenham, North London, between Harringay Green Lanes and Blackhorse Road. It is in Zone 3.

South Tottenham to Seven Sisters station (on the western, Seven Sisters Branch of the Lea Valley Lines and on the London Underground Victoria line) is considered an official out-of-station interchange by the National Rail timetable, and involves a short walk. This link will become fixed under the planned route for Crossrail 2, which sees a double-ended underground station built linking together South Tottenham and Seven Sisters stations.

History

Map dated 1914, showing South Tottenham station top right, on the "Tottenhm & Hampstead Jnt. (G.E. and Mid.)" railway

Opened as 'Tottenham and Stamford Hill' station on 1 May 1871, on the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway, it was renamed 'South Tottenham' on 1 July 1903.

The station today

A short distance west of the station, on the far side of the A10, there is a single east-to-north turnout towards Seven Sisters. To allow this to be reached by westbound trains, there is a facing crossover, located in the platform area.

A short distance to the east of the station, there is a double turnout branching to the south, to reach the eastern route of the two north-south Lea Valley Lines. Visually from the platforms, this looks like it is the main line, since the main tracks curve to the north from the junction. (In fact, it was the original main line, since the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway eastwards was a later addition.)

Both curves were formerly part of the route used by trains on the Palace Gates Line (which then continued onwards to North Woolwich) but these days see infrequent use, with just three booked London Overground passenger trains each week on Saturday only running over them (one between London Liverpool Street and Cheshunt, one between Liverpool Street and Edmonton Green and the other between Liverpool Street and Enfield Town via Stratford and Seven Sisters. These surviving parliamentary trains does not however stop at South Tottenham.

The station has been receiving investment, following station management passing to London Overground in 2007.

Connections

London Buses routes 76, 149, 243, 318, 349 and 476 and night routes N73 and N76 serve the station.

External links

• South Tottenham Station in the 1960s on Flickr

• Train times and station information for South Tottenham railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		London Overground		Following station
Harringay Green Lanes towards Gospel Oak		Gospel Oak to Barking Line		Blackhorse Road towards Barking
	Disused Railways
St Ann's Road		Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway		Tottenham Hale
		Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway		Blackhorse Road
Seven Sisters		Great Eastern Railway Palace Gates Line		Lea Bridge