Tottenham Hale station

Tottenham Hale is a National Rail and London Underground Victoria line station in the district of Tottenham in North London. It is on Ferry Lane, with access from Watermead Way. The station is in Travelcard Zone 3. The National Rail gateline now has automatic barriers installed: rail users must use the Underground doors to the station. A new station building is awaiting planning approval, and a third railway platform is being worked on. This is all part of the 2013/14 Tottenham Hale regeneration scheme.History19th centuryLocations served by Tottenham Hale trains in previous years included London St Pancras (via the Tottenham and Hampstead Joint Railway), North Woolwich via the low level platforms at (after the Palace Gates Line service was cut back) and York (via Cambridge and the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway). Until recently, the next station served to the south on the line to was, but only a small number of trains to and from Tottenham Hale served Clapton. Clapton is now exclusively served by trains on the branch instead, except for the last train to on Mondays to Fridays, which stops at Clapton before Tottenham Hale.The station opened on 15 September 1840 as Tottenham, on the Northern & Eastern Railway (N&ER) line from Stratford in east London to in Hertfordshire. The Northern and Eastern Railway was leased by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1844 who took over operation of the line. The line was initially laid to a gauge of ; however, this had already been identified as non-standard, and between 5 September and 7 October 1844 the whole network was re-laid to.