Baldock train station

You can reach 41 stations directly from Baldock on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Letchworth Garden City, with 130 trains a day.

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• 41 direct destinations
• 812th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• 85 parking spaces
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Baldock

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

and 1 more station, each served less often.

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Lines serving Baldock

Baldock is on the Hitchin-Cambridge Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Baldock station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Baldock station on 99 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 20 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 12:00 to 13:00 on the Monday, with 3 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 Baldock station is

568,602 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 812th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Baldock and London St Pancras International than any other pair: 82,450 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: 27 stations instead of 41, a drop of about 34%. Saturday runs to 33.

Nearest other stations

• Letchworth Garden City 2.0 miles
• Arlesey 4.1 miles
• Ashwell & Morden 4.2 miles
• Hitchin 4.2 miles
• Stevenage 6.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Three Counties · 3.6 miles

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Facilities at Baldock station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:40 to 13:10 · Saturday: 08:00 to 14:25 · Sunday: closed

Parking at Baldock station

• Station Car Park 85 spaces, 3 accessible

Cycle parking: 52 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 August 2026.

Getting to Baldock station

Baldock station is in North Hertfordshire, East of England, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Great Northern).

The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J10 (Stotfold), 1.2 miles north-west.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Baldock Railway Station.

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

Baldock 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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