Disused railway lines and closed stations in Greater London

96 miles of disused railway
166 closed stations
343 stations open today
58 named lost lines

Greater London has 96 miles of disused railway and 166 closed stations, against 343 stations still open today. That is 0.5 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the New North Mainline, with 4.9 miles of its route inside Greater London.

See Greater London’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 96 miles of lost railway in Greater London break down as 49 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 25 miles with track still in place but no trains and 21 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Greater London

58 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Greater London; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
New North Mainline	4.9
Alexandra Park Branch (GER)	4.7
Post Office Railway	4.1
High Barnet Branch	3.0
London Post Office Railway	2.7
Northern Line (Mill Hill East Branch)	2.5
Denham and Uxbridge Branch	1.9
Merton Park to Tooting Line	1.9
Thames Junction Branch (LB&SCR)	1.7
Uxbridge (Vine Street) Branch	1.7
Hammersmith and Chiswick Branch	1.6
Thameslink (Moorgate Branch)	1.4
Broad Street and Old Kew Line	1.4
Angel Road to Edmonton Branch	1.3
Great Eastern Main Line	1.3
Wembley Stadium Loop	1.3
East Ham Loop	1.2
Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway	1.2
Chadwell Heath Sidings	1.1
Gas Factory Junction to Bow Station (Former) (GER)	0.9
Hall Farm East Junction to Lea Bridge Junction Line	0.9
North London-Watford Link	0.9
Woodside to Selsdon Branch	0.9
City and South London Railway	0.8
District Line	0.8
Bow Road Station (Former) to Devon's Road Junction	0.7
Lord's Tunnel	0.7
Brentford Dock Line	0.7
Great Western Railway Uxbridge Branch	0.7
Beckton Corridor	0.6
Chiswick Curve (LSWR)	0.6
Hampton Kempton Railway	0.6
Barnes Inner Link	0.6
Distillers Private Sidings	0.6
Elmers End and Addiscombe Branch	0.6
Metropolitan District Railway	0.6
Newbury Park Branch	0.6
Point Pleasant Junction and Wimbledon Line	0.6
Up Empty Carriage Tunnel	0.6
Acton Curve	0.5

And 18 shorter stretches: Alexandra Palace Branch, Gas Factory Junction to Bow Junction Curve, London & Blackwall Railway (GER), Bishopsgate Yards, Motspur Park and Chessington Branch, Piccadilly Line (Aldwych Branch), Romford Centre Siding, Royal Arsenal Railway, St Mary's Curve, Old Oak Sidings, Tottenham South Curve, Uxbridge Road Junction to Turnham Green Junction Line, 'F' Sidings, Alexandra Park Branch, Copenhagen Tunnel, Dalston East Curve, Kingsway Tram Subway and Tower Subway.

Closed railway stations in Greater London

All 166 closed and former stations in Greater London, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Greater London

343 stations in Greater London still have a train service. The busiest are London Liverpool Street (98.0 million a year), London Waterloo (70.4 million a year), London Paddington (69.9 million a year), Tottenham Court Road (68.1 million a year) and London Bridge (54.7 million a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Surrey, Hertfordshire, Essex, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Kent.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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