Manor House Underground Station - Seven Sisters Road, London, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
N 51° 34.258 W 000° 05.732
30U E 701274 N 5717319
Manor House tube station is located at the junction between Seven Sisters Road and Green Lane. The ticket hall and platforms are below ground and are accessed by steps from street level.
Waymark Code: WMMKGZ
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/03/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Marine Biologist
Views: 1

The co-ordinates given are for the access to the station in Seven Sisters Road.

Wikipedia has an article about the tube station that tells us:

Manor House tube station is a station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground, on the boundary between Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3. It straddles the border between the London Boroughs of Hackney and Haringey, the postal address and three of the entrances being in the former, and one entrance in the latter.

The station, named after a nearby public house, is situated at the junction of Seven Sisters Road and Green Lanes and was designed by Charles Holden. Opened on 19 September 1932, it lies between Finsbury Park and Turnpike Lane tube stations. Like all stations on the Cockfosters extension, Manor House station set new aesthetic standards, not previously seen on London's Underground. The station was equipped with nine street level entrances, two of which gave access to tram routes to and from Tottenham, Edmonton and Stamford Hill via tramway island exits into Seven Sisters Road. The last of these tram services were withdrawn in 1938 and replaced by trolleybuses and the exits were removed in 1951. The sub-surface areas of the station were tiled in biscuit coloured tiles lined with blue friezes. These were refurbished in 2005. The station tunnels have, in common with those of Turnpike Lane and Wood Green, a diameter of 23 feet (7 metres) and were designed for the greater volume of traffic expected. In contrast, Bounds Green and Southgate have only 21 foot (6.4 metres) diameter platform tunnels. The construction of "suicide pits" between the rails was also innovative. These were built in connection with a system of passageways under the platforms to give access to the track.

Next to the northern exit are the remains of a tramway track, which leads into the rear of the former Metropolitan Electric Tramways Headquarters (M.E.T) building, later the Eastern Divisional Office of London Transport Buses.

London Buses routes 29; 141; 253; 254; 259; 279; 341 and night routes N29; N253 and N279 serve the station.

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