Acton Central train station

You can reach 22 stations directly from Acton Central on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Gunnersbury, with 162 trains a day.

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• 22 direct destinations
• 347th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• 1 bus stop nearby

Direct trains from Acton Central

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

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Lines serving Acton Central

Acton Central is on the North London Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Acton Central station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Acton Central station on 234 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 45 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 11 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 13:00 to 14:00 on the Monday, with 9 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 Acton Central station is

1,574,010 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 347th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Acton Central and Richmond (London) than any other pair: 160,724 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

• Acton Main Line 0.6 miles
• South Acton 0.7 miles
• Gunnersbury 1.3 miles
• Ealing Broadway 1.7 miles
• Kew Bridge 1.7 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Rugby Road Halt · 0.5 miles
• Woodstock Road · 0.7 miles
• Bath Road · 1.0 miles
• Old Oak Lane Halt · 1.1 miles
• North Acton Halt · 1.1 miles
• Hammersmith & Chiswick · 1.2 miles

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Facilities at Acton Central station

Acton Central is staffed part time, with step-free access to no part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:30 to 10:00

WiFi

Cycle parking: 6 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2025.

Getting to Acton Central station

Acton Central station is in Ealing, London, and is run by London Overground.

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J1 (Chiswick Roundabout), 1.5 miles south-west.

1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Acton Central Station.

Acton Central is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Acton Central 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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