The North London Line
The North London Line links 22 stations, with a top line speed of 45 mph.
See the North London Line on the live map
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 33 miles, counting every running line |
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| Stations | 22 |
| Top line speed | 45 mph |
| Passengers a year | 137.3 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | BOK1, BOK, DWW2, BOK2, BOK5, CRC2, BOK4, DWW1, SAR1 |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Gunnersbury2.0 million a year
- South Acton747,478 a year
- Acton Central1.6 million a year
- Willesden Junction7.0 million a year
- Kensal Rise2.6 million a year
- Brondesbury Park1.1 million a year
- Brondesbury2.4 million a year
- West Hampstead Thameslink3.1 million a year
- Finchley Road & Frognal1.9 million a year
- Hampstead Heath3.5 million a year
- Kentish Town West1.9 million a year
- Camden Road4.3 million a year
- Gospel Oak2.7 million a year
- 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
- Stratford51.5 million a year
The busiest station on the line is Stratford, 51.5 million entries and exits a year and 7th busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the North London Line on 3,669 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 657 paths on the Wednesday, 388 paths on the Saturday and 97 paths on the Sunday. 332 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 05:00 to 06:00 on the Tuesday, with 80 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
Chiltern Main Line, DC Electric Lines, District Line and Overground (North London Line), East London Line, Elizabeth Line, Gospel Oak to Barking Line, Great Eastern Main Line, High Speed 1, Lea Valley Lines, Midland Main Line, Northern City 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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