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  Tottenham Hale Location of Tottenham Hale in Greater London | |
| Location | Tottenham Hale |
| Local authority | London Borough of Haringey |
| Managed by | Greater Anglia |
| Station code | TOM |
| DfT category | D |
| Number of platforms | 5 (2 London Underground, 3 National Rail (numbered 2-4)) |
| Accessible | Yes [1] |
| Fare zone | 3 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2020 |  7.26 million[2] |
| 2021 | 7.12 million[3] |
| 2022 |  12.49 million[4] |
| 2023 | 13.24 million[5] |
| 2024 | 13.85 million[6] |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2019–20 | 9.245 million[7] |
| – interchange | 0.575 million[7] |
| 2020–21 | 2.652 million[7] |
| – interchange | 0.178 million[7] |
| 2021–22 | 6.096 million[7] |
| – interchange | 0.408 million[7] |
| 2022–23 | 7.564 million[7] |
| – interchange | 0.502 million[7] |
| 2023–24 | 8.498 million[7] |
| – interchange | 0.656 million[7] |
| Key dates | |
| 15 September 1840 | Opened (N&ER) |
| 1 September 1968 | Opened (Victoria line) |
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| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°35′18″N0°03′35″W / 51.588333°N 0.059722°W /51.588333; -0.059722 |
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Tottenham Hale is aninterchange station located inTottenham Hale,North London forLondon Underground andNational Rail services.
On the National Rail network it is on theWest Anglia Main Line, 6 miles (9.7 km) fromLondon Liverpool Street, and is served byGreater Anglia andStansted Express. On the Underground it is on theVictoria line betweenBlackhorse Road andSeven Sisters. The station is inLondon fare zone 3.
The station was opened in 1840, with Underground services added in 1968. A new station building and an additional platform has been added[8] as part of a regeneration scheme.[9]
Locations served by Tottenham Hale trains in previous years includedLondon St Pancras (via the Tottenham and Hampstead Joint Railway),North Woolwich via the low level platforms atStratford (after thePalace Gates Line service was cut back) and York (via Cambridge and theGreat Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway).[10] Until recently, the next station served to the south on the line toLiverpool Street wasClapton, but only a small number of trains to and from Tottenham Hale served Clapton. Clapton is now exclusively served by trains on theChingford branch instead.
The station opened on 15 September 1840 asTottenham,[11] on theNorthern & Eastern Railway (N&ER) line from Stratford in east London toBroxbourne inHertfordshire. The Northern and Eastern Railway was leased by theEastern Counties Railway in 1844 who took over operation of the line. The line was initially laid to a gauge of5 ft (1,524 mm); however, this had already been identified as non-standard, and between 5 September and 7 October 1844 the whole network was re-laid to4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)standard gauge.
On 12 September 1858 a passenger train collided with some goods wagons that had been shunted onto the main line. Nobody was seriously injured. Eighteen months later on 20 February 1860 the station was the site of a serious railway accident when a locomotive derailed, killing the driver, fireman and seven passengers.[12]
The Eastern Counties Railway was taken over by theGreat Eastern Railway in 1862.
Until 1868 Tottenham Hale was a railhead for cattle traffic from East Anglia. Trains were unloaded there, and the cattle driven miles down what is now the A10 road towards London.[13] In 1868 the link (since removed) to theTottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway was opened and the cattle traffic transferred to Tufnell Park, which was closer to the site of the cattle market off Caledonian Road.
Four years later in 1872 the route via Clapton was opened, offering a slightly more direct route to Liverpool Street.[14]
In 1875, the suffix 'Hale' was added to the station's name; this was removed in November 1938, before being restored in 1968.[11][15]
In 1882 the line through Tottenham Hale became part of a major rail freight artery, with the opening of theGreat Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway. This provided a link for the Great Eastern from the coalfields in the north to London. This led to a second pair of running lines known as the Slow Lines being added in 1913.[16] The slow lines that exist today were previously known as the fast lines.
On 29 August 1913 a northbound mail train (carrying passengers) ran into the back of a freight train just south of the station at Tottenham South Junction. The cause was a signal passed at danger in foggy conditions. Two passengers were badly injured, 16 less so.[17]
The area was always susceptible to flooding, one of the worst instances being between 18 and 22 February 1919 when the River Lea overflowed its banks and rail traffic was suspended.[18]
In 1919 there were, as well as the two sets of main lines, some private sidings serving local industries. Other sidings in the area were used to clean passenger rolling stock when not in service.[19]
In 1923 operation passed to theLondon & North Eastern Railway, and following nationalisation in 1948 the station became part ofBritish Railways Eastern Region.
On 12 February 1927 an express passenger train, hauled byLNER Class D154-4-0 No. 8808, was in collision with alorry on a level crossing. Owing to foggy conditions, the train was not travelling at high speed.[20]
On 4 October 1929, another accident occurred at Tottenham North Junction (just south of the station) when a goods train, hauled byLNER Class J150-6-0 No. 7938, passed a signal at danger and was hit by a passenger train, which was hauled byLNER Class B174-6-0 No. 2808Gunton. There were no fatalities.[21]
On 21 March 1944 (during World War Two), several incendiary bombs fell close to the station, destroying a lineside hut.[22]
In 1963, the link from Tottenham South Junction to the Tottenham and Hampstead Line was closed to passengers, with the end of services to/fromPalace Gates via Seven Sisters.[23]
On 14 July 1967, planning permission was granted for the addition of the London UndergroundVictoria line station.[24] The station was renamed Tottenham Hale on 1 September 1968, when it became an interchange station with London Underground on the opening of the first stage of the Victoria line.
The Lea Valley line between Copper Mill Junction and Cheshunt was electrified at 25 kV in 1969. Many of the private goods sidings were removed at this time.[25] Prior to electrification, between 1958 and 1969, passenger services between Cheshunt and London Liverpool Street through Tottenham Hale were normally operated byClass 125 diesel multiple units (which had been purpose-built for the line).
Whensectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served byNetwork SouthEast until theprivatisation of British Railways. The line southwards via Lea Bridge to Stratford (used by the by now peak-hour only North Woolwich trains) lost its regular remaining advertised service in July 1985, with the closure of Lea Bridge station.
In the late 1990s, at the same time as theStansted Express service to Stansted Airport was started, the British Rail station at Tottenham Hale was totally rebuilt; the Underground station was revamped at the same time. None of the original Victorian station buildings now exist.
With the privatisation of the UK's railways in 1994, operation of the station was initially allocated to a business unit which succeeded the old British Railways structure before being taken over byWest Anglia Great Northern (WAGN) in January 1997.
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Initially owned byPrism Rail,National Express took over operation in July 2000. In 1994 responsibility for the operational infrastructure passed toRailtrack.
In August 2002 signalling control was transferred to the Liverpool Street Integrated Electronic Control Centre (IECC).[26]
The WAGN franchise was replaced in 2004 by One; this was renamedNational Express East Anglia.
The following year, following financial difficulties, Railtrack was superseded byNetwork Rail.
From 11 December 2005, a new service to and from Stratford reintroduced a direct passenger connection between Tottenham Hale and Stratford via the mainly freight line acrossWalthamstow Marshes. For many years, the only service on this route had been a parliamentary "ghost train" to Enfield Town via Stratford operated to save lengthy closure (to passengers) procedures. The intermediate station atLea Bridge on this route was reopened to passengers in May 2016, some three decades after it had previously closed.
In February 2012 operation of the station changed once again, withGreater Anglia taking over the franchise.
Tottenham Hale bus station is located beside the railway station.
Following the2011 England riots which began in Tottenham, a redevelopment of the tube, bus and rail stations was used to encourage investment in the area.[27] The £110 million bus and rail interchange project for Tottenham Hale was completed in 2014.[28] As part of the project the bus station was roofed withETFE, which is also used in theEden Project.[29]
The bus station roof was a finalist for Best Urban Design in the 2018 Haringey Design Awards 2018,[30] and in the 2015British Constructional Steelwork Association Structural Steel Design Awards.[31]
Tottenham Hale Bus Station  | |
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 The bus station in 2023 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Tottenham Hale Haringey |
| Operated by | Transport for London |
| Bus stands | 4 |
| Bus operators | |
| Connections | Victoria Line and National Rail services from Tottenham Hale Station |
The following bus routes serve the bus stationLondon Buses route 41,76,123,192,230,W4,N41 andN73.
Tottenham Hale is served by trains operated byGreater Anglia and on London Underground'sVictoria line. Services at the station are:
Additional services call at the station during peak periods. On Sundays, the services between Stratford and Bishops Stortford do not run, and the Hertford East services are routed to Stratford viaLea Bridge to maintain the 4tph service.[32]
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| London Liverpool Street | Stansted Express | Harlow Town or Bishop's Stortford | ||
| Greater Anglia | ||||
| Hackney Downs | Greater Anglia | Ponders End or Northumberland Park or Waltham Cross | ||
| Lea Bridge | ||||
| Preceding station | LUL | Following station | ||
| Seven Sisters towardsBrixton | Victoria line | Blackhorse Road towardsWalthamstow Central | ||
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| South Tottenham | Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway | Terminus | ||
Transport for London has active plans for the station to be expanded.
Specifically, the proposed Tottenham Hale Station Upgrade development comprises the followingelements:
Stages already completed are:
Those that have yet to be completed are:
The full plans can be seen on Haringey Council's website.[33][34]
Funding is being sought to increase the number of lines from Coppermill Junction (between Lea Bridge and Tottenham Hale) and Meridian Water to provide a turn-up-and-go four trains per hour service for the Lea Valley.[35]
In February 2013, theCrossrail task force of business group London First, chaired by formerSecretary of State for TransportAndrew Adonis, published its recommendations on Crossrail 2, favouring a route almost identical to the regional option proposed by TfLin 2011.[36] The report was endorsed byNetwork Rail.[37]
This proposal will see four tracks restored through Tottenham Hale and direct links to South-West London.
Land at Ferry Lane: Construction of new station for Victoria Line.
Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995).The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.).Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7.OCLC 60251199.OL 11956311M.
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