The High Speed 1
The High Speed 1 runs for 68.5 miles between Caledonian Road & Barnsbury and Sandling, serving 18 stations, with a top line speed of 186 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Length | 68.5 miles end to end |
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| Track | about 144 miles, counting every running line |
| Stations | 18 |
| Top line speed | 186 mph |
| Passengers a year | 79.7 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | TRL3, TRL2, TRL5, TRL1 |
Stations on this line
- Caledonian Road & Barnsbury1.6 million a year
- Highbury & Islington24.0 million a year
- Canonbury2.8 million a year
- Dalston Kingsland5.3 million a year
- Hackney Downs3.0 million a year
- Hackney Central5.3 million a year
- Homerton4.7 million a year
- Hackney Wick4.2 million a year
- Stratford International2.7 million a year
- Maryland4.1 million a year
- Woodgrange Park938,768 a year
- Barking13.4 million a year
- Dagenham Dock424,946 a year
- Rainham1.5 million a year
- Ebbsfleet International1.8 million a year
- Ashford International3.8 million a year
- Westenhanger62,914 a year
- Sandling75,282 a year
The busiest station on the line is Highbury & Islington, 24.0 million entries and exits a year and 19th busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the High Speed 1 on 599 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 86 paths on the Wednesday, 109 paths on the Saturday and 72 paths on the Sunday. 21 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 23:00 to 00:00 on the Wednesday, with 14 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Lines it meets
East London Line, Elizabeth Line, Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness Line, Gospel Oak to Barking Line, Great Eastern Main Line, Lea Valley Lines, London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, North London Line, Northern City Line, South Eastern Main Line, Tilbury Loop Line, West Anglia Main Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.
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