Abbey Wood train station

You can reach 90 stations directly from Abbey Wood on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Farringdon, with 400 trains a day.

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• 90 direct destinations
• 39th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 9 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Abbey Wood

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 50 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Abbey Wood

Abbey Wood is on the Elizabeth Line and the North Kent Line - Woolwich Branch, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Abbey Wood station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Abbey Wood station on 134 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 24 paths on the Wednesday, 9 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 3 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 Monday, with 6 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Abbey Wood station is

11,873,686 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 39th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 1,879,075 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Abbey Wood and Tottenham Court Road than any other pair: 1,861,410 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Nearest other stations

• Belvedere 1.4 miles
• Plumstead 1.6 miles
• Bexleyheath 2.0 miles
• Barking Riverside 2.0 miles
• Welling 2.0 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Abbey Wood, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Church Manor Way Halt · 0.8 miles
• Gallions · 2.1 miles
• Manor Way · 2.4 miles
• North Woolwich · 2.5 miles
• King George V · 2.6 miles
• Beckton · 2.7 miles

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Facilities at Abbey Wood station

Abbey Wood is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 20:05 · Saturday: 06:10 to 20:05 · Sunday: 07:30 to 19:30

Toilets

From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.

Getting to Abbey Wood station

Abbey Wood station is in Greenwich, London, and is run by Elizabeth line.

The nearest motorway junction is M25 J30 (Mardyke), 6.3 miles east.

9 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Abbey Wood Station.

Abbey Wood is inside the London Travelcard area.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Abbey Wood station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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