Tottenham Hale station
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Tottenham Hale, is a National Rail
National Rail
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 and London Underground
London Underground
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 Victoria Line
Victoria Line
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 station in Tottenham
Tottenham
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, north
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 London
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. It is on Hale Road near the Tottenham Hale one-way gyratory system. The station is in Travelcard Zone 3
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.

The station opened on 15 September 1840 as Tottenham, on the Northern & Eastern Railway
Northern and Eastern Railway
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 (N&ER) line from in east London to in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
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.

It 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 next station to the south on the line to is but very few trains, except on Sundays, serve both Clapton and Tottenham Hale. Most trains either run non-stop between Liverpool Street and Tottenham Hale or make one intermediate stop at . Clapton is almost exclusively served by trains going via the branch instead.

From 11 December 2005, a new service between and reintroduced a direct passenger connection between Tottenham Hale and Stratford via the mainly freight line across Walthamstow Marshes
Walthamstow Marshes
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. , a former station between Tottenham Hale and Stratford, may be re-opened in the future.

In the late 1990s, at the same time as the Stansted Express
Stansted Express
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 service to Stansted Airport was started, the British Rail station at Tottenham Hale was totally rebuilt along with a revamp of the Underground station. None of the original Victorian station now exists.

Two of London's last remaining Trolleybus poles still stand on Ferry Lane as it crosses over the railway tracks by the station.

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London Buses
London Buses
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 routes 41 towards station, 192 towards Enfield Town
Enfield Town
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, 230
London Buses route 230
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 towards Upper Walthamstow
Walthamstow
Walthamstow is a district of northeast London, England, located in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is situated north-east of Charing Cross...

 or Wood Green
Wood Green
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, and 123 towards Ilford
Ilford
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 or Wood Green. Ikea
IKEA
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 also provides a shuttle service between Tottenham Hale Station and their Edmonton
Edmonton, London
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 branch (also served by 192 bus).

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