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	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″N0°04′19″W / 51.5802°N 0.072°W /51.5802; -0.072
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South Tottenham is a railway station on theSuffragette line of theLondon Overground. It is located on the eastern side of theA10 High Road inTottenham,North London, 5 miles 69 chains (9.4 km) fromSt Pancras (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction)^[4] and situated betweenHarringay Green Lanes andBlackhorse Road. It is inLondon fare zone 3, in theLondon Borough of Haringey.

South Tottenham toSeven Sisters station (on theWeaver line of theLondon Overground and theVictoria line of theLondon Underground) 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 forCrossrail 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

Opened as 'South Tottenham and Stamford Hill' station on 1 May 1871, on theTottenham 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-northspur towards Seven Sisters. To allow this to be reached by westbound trains, there is a facingcrossover, 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–southLea 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, itwas the original main line, since theTottenham and Forest Gate Railway eastwards was a later addition.)

Both curves were formerly part of the route used by trains on thePalace Gates Line (which then continued onwards toNorth Woolwich to serve the docks) but these days see infrequent use, with just one bookedLondon Overground passenger train, which travels between Liverpool Street andEnfield Town viaStratford and Seven Sisters, in one direction only.^[8] This survivingparliamentary train does not however stop at South Tottenham. As of September 2025, this service is still running (along with a Fridays-excepted late-night service in the opposite direction). Some cross-London freight trains also use the route to/from Tottenham South Junction to access the North London Line at Gospel Oak (before continuing west or north).The station has been receiving investment, following the station management passing toLondon Overground in 2007.

The station is served byLondon Buses routes76,149,243,318,349,476 and night routeN73.^[9]

All services at South Tottenham are operated byLondon Overground usingClass 710EMUs.

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related toSouth Tottenham railway station.

• South Tottenham Station in the 1960s on Flickr

• Train times andstation information for South Tottenham railway station fromNational Rail

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• DfT Category E stations
• Railway stations in the London Borough of Haringey
• Former Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
• Railway stations served by London Overground
• Suffragette line stations

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