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Seven Sisters [REDACTED]
Entrance on Seven Sisters Road to National Rail and London Underground
Location	Seven Sisters
Local authority	Haringey
Managed by	London Underground Greater Anglia
Station code(s)	SVS
Number of platforms	5
Fare zone	3
OSI	South Tottenham
London Underground annual entry and exit
2007	13.531 million
2008	13.340 million
2009	12.385 million
2019	17.02 million
2020	10.31 million
2021	7.36 million
2022	16.72 million
2023	12.17 million
National Rail annual entry and exit
2006–07	2.586 million
2007–08	2.410 million
2008–09	2.216 million
Key dates
22 July 1872	Opened (GER)
1 January 1878	Opened (Palace Gates Line)
7 January 1963	Closed (Palace Gates Line)
1 September 1968	Opened (Victoria Line)
Other information
External links	TfL station info page Departures Facilities
London transport portal

Seven Sisters station is a National Rail and London Underground Victoria Line station in the Seven Sisters area of the London Borough of Haringey, north London.

The station is in Travelcard Zone 3. Seven Sisters lies between Finsbury Park and Tottenham Hale on the Victoria Line and between Stamford Hill and Bruce Grove on the National Rail line operated by Greater Anglia from Liverpool Street. It is a short walk from South Tottenham station on London Overground's Gospel Oak to Barking line.

History

The station was constructed by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Stoke Newington & Edmonton Railway line and opened on 22 July 1872. On 1 January 1878, the GER opened a branch line, the Palace Gates Line, from Seven Sisters station to Palace Gates (Wood Green) station to the north-west.

Due to unprofitability, the Palace Gates Line was closed by British Rail in 1963 and the branch line track and platforms at Seven Sisters have been removed.

The first section of the Victoria Line opened on 1 September 1968 serving Seven Sisters, although a shared entrance and interchange facilities with the surface station were not opened until December 1968. The original GER entrance to the station was situated in West Green Road at the north end of the surface station, but the new combined entrance was opened in Seven Sisters Road at the south end on the site of a former wood merchants yard, connecting to the west end of the Victoria Line platforms. The original (1872) entrance was closed at that time.

A second entrance at the east end includes the main Victoria Line ticket hall, and is accessed via subways on each side of High Road just north of the junction with Seven Sisters Road. There are three Victoria Line platforms at Seven Sisters: with one platform (platform 4) reserved for services which terminate at the station to return to the depot or reverse back into central London, although a connection is available for trains to continue to Walthamstow Central.

The section of Victoria Line between Seven Sisters and Finsbury Park stations is the longest between adjacent stations in deep level tunnels on the London Underground network. During the planning phase of the Victoria Line, thought was given to converting Manor House into a Victoria Line station and diverting the Piccadilly Line in new tunnels directly from Finsbury Park to Turnpike Lane, but the inconvenience this would cause, as well as the cost, ensured that this idea was abandoned.

• NXEA platforms looking north
• NXEA platforms looking south
• NXEA Signage
• Victoria line northbound platform looking south
• Victoria line southbound platform looking north
• Roundel

Cultural references

Seven Sisters station is referenced in the song "Seven Sisters Road" by UK rock band Alien Stash Tin, and included on the bands 2007 eponymous album. The track was also issued as a single a year before.

"Seven Sisters Road" is also the title of a different song recorded by The Dan Reed Network.

Transport connections

London Buses routes 41, 73, 76, 123, 149 (24-hour service), 230, 243 (24-hour service), 259, 279, 318, 349, 476, W4, N41, N73, N76 and N279 serve the station or pass close by.

(Bus map and Night bus map)

References

1. "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLSX). Transport for London. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
2. ^ "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007–2017)". London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Archived from the original (XLSX) on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018. Cite error: The named reference "infobox_stats_ref_tube_2007" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
3. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
4. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
5. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
6. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
7. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
8. ^ "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.

External links

• Train times and station information for Seven Sisters station from National Rail
• Disused stations - closed Palace Gate branch platforms
• London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Subway entrance to Seven Sisters Underground station in 1969
  • Station platform in 1974
• See How they Run - Plan showing layout of Seven Sisters station below ground (archived from the original on 23 September 2006)

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Template:LUL stationstoward Template:LUL stations		Template:LUL lines		Template:LUL stationstoward Template:LUL stations
	[REDACTED] National Rail
Stamford Hill		Greater Anglia Lea Valley Lines		Bruce Grove
	Disused railways
West Green		Great Eastern Railway Palace Gates Line		Stamford Hill

• Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3
• Victoria Line stations
• Transport in Haringey
• Railway stations in Haringey
• Former Great Eastern Railway stations
• Railway stations opened in 1872
• Railway stations served by Greater Anglia
• DfT Category D stations