[5] It is a short distance from Harringay Green Lanes railway station on the London Overground network.

A formal agreement to build a station at Harringay was made between the British Land Company and the Great Northern Railway in April 1884.

Contracts to build the station (including the footbridge) and a road bridge over the Tottenham & Hampstead line went to S.W.

[7] A goods yard was built to the east of the line, but the exact date it opened for public traffic is not recorded.

[5] Since 1976 under British Rail only the central part of the footbridge, and the girders built to carry the old booking office building, remain from the 1885 station structure.

Under plans approved in 1897, the station was to be served by the Great Northern and Strand Railway (GN&SR), a tube railway supported by the GNR which would have run underground beneath the GNR's tracks from Alexandra Palace to Finsbury Park and then into central London.

The station is also served by a small number of peak hour services between Moorgate and Gordon Hill.