Arlesey train station
You can reach 33 stations directly from Arlesey on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Biggleswade, with 81 trains a day.
Arlesey is the nearest station for postcodes in SG15, SG16, SG17. Check your own postcode.
- 33 direct destinations
- 726th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 105 parking spaces
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Arlesey
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggleswade | 81 | 79 | 33 |
| Finsbury Park | 81 | 79 | 32 |
| Hitchin | 81 | 79 | 33 |
| Huntingdon | 81 | 79 | 33 |
| Peterborough | 81 | 79 | 33 |
| Sandy | 81 | 79 | 33 |
| St Neots | 81 | 79 | 33 |
| Stevenage | 81 | 79 | 32 |
| London Blackfriars | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| East Croydon | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Gatwick Airport | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Horley | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Redhill | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| St Pancras International | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Three Bridges | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Farringdon | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Crawley | 72 | 71 | 0 |
| Horsham | 72 | 71 | 0 |
| Ifield | 72 | 71 | 0 |
| Littlehaven | 72 | 71 | 0 |
| London Bridge | 71 | 71 | 0 |
| Coulsdon South | 69 | 66 | 0 |
| City Thameslink | 68 | 48 | 0 |
| Merstham | 67 | 66 | 0 |
| Faygate | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Earlswood | 11 | 6 | 0 |
| Salfords | 11 | 6 | 0 |
| Knebworth | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| London King's Cross | 8 | 8 | 32 |
| Purley | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| Norwood Junction | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| South Croydon | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Welwyn Garden City | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Arlesey
Arlesey is on the East Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Arlesey station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Arlesey station on 384 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 63 paths on the Wednesday, 81 paths on the Saturday and 9 paths on the Sunday. 36 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Saturday, with 11 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
How busy Arlesey station is
688,476 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 726th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Arlesey and London St Pancras International than any other pair: 148,940 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.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 9 stations instead of 33, a drop of about 73%. Saturday runs to 30.
Nearest other stations
- Letchworth Garden City 3.5 miles
- Baldock 4.1 miles
- Biggleswade 4.1 miles
- Hitchin 5.0 miles
- Ashwell & Morden 6.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Arlesey, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Three Counties · 1.4 miles
- Henlow Camp · 2.0 miles
- Shefford · 3.1 miles
- Southill · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Arlesey station
Arlesey is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:45 to 12:10 · Saturday: 07:45 to 13:10 · Sunday: closed
Parking at Arlesey station
- Station Car Park 105 spaces, 3 accessible
Cycle parking: 67 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 August 2026.
Getting to Arlesey station
Arlesey station is in Central Bedfordshire, East of England, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Great Northern).
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J10 (Stotfold), 2.6 miles east.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Arlesey Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Arlesey 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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