page_title: South Tottenham railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: South Tottenham railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: Pre Grouping railway junction around Canonbury, Highgate Road, Junction Road, South Tottenham, Tottenham &amp; Tufnell Park
context_page_description: 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 from St Pancras 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 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Map dated 1914, showing South Tottenham station top right, on the "Tottenhm & Hampstead Jnt. (G.E. and Mid.)" railway
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