South Tottenham railway station

South Tottenham
South Tottenham station
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(s)	STO
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	3
OSI	Seven Sisters [2]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	0.948 million[3]
2020–21	0.683 million[3]
2021–22	1.054 million[3]
2022–23	1.130 million[3]
2023–24	1.260 million[3]
Key dates
1 May 1871	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°34′49″N 0°04′19″W / 51.5802°N 0.072°W / 51.5802; -0.072
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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, 5 miles 69 chains (9.4 km) from St Pancras (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction)^[4] and situated between Harringay Green Lanes and Blackhorse Road. It is in Zone 3, in the London Borough of Haringey. 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.^[5]

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Station National Rail Liberty line Accessible station Thameslink Lioness line Interchange station Elizabeth line Mildmay line Accessible interchange Docklands Light Railway Suffragette line Internal interchange London Underground Weaver line Out-of-station interchange London Trams Windrush line (   ) Nearby interchange London River Services The new London Overground line names and colours were introduced across the London rail network in November 2024

Opened as 'South Tottenham and Stamford Hill' station on 1 May 1871, on the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway, it was renamed 'South Tottenham' in 1949.^[6][7]

A short distance west of the station, on the far side of the A10, there is a single east-to-north spur 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 one booked London Overground train, which travels between Liverpool Street and Enfield Town via Stratford and Seven Sisters, in one direction only.^[8] This surviving parliamentary train does not however stop at South Tottenham. As of September 2023, this service is still running.

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

The station is served by London Buses routes 76, 149, 243, 318, 349, 476 and night route N73.^[9]

All services at South Tottenham are operated by London Overground using Class 710 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is four trains per hour in each direction between Gospel Oak and Barking Riverside. During the late evenings, the service is reduced to three trains per hour in each direction.^[10][11]

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to South Tottenham railway station.

• South Tottenham Station in the 1960s on Flickr

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