Balham train station

You can reach 50 stations directly from Balham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Clapham Junction, with 344 trains a day.

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• 50 direct destinations
• 86th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free in part
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Balham

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

and 10 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Balham

Balham is on the Brighton Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Balham station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Balham station on 403 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 70 paths on the Wednesday, 33 paths on the Saturday and 23 paths 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 10:00 to 11:00 on the Monday, with 13 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 Balham station is

5,955,232 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 86th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 267,295 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Balham and Clapham Junction than any other pair: 500,878 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

• Wandsworth Common 0.6 miles
• Streatham Hill 1.1 miles
• Streatham 1.5 miles
• Earlsfield 1.6 miles
• Tooting 1.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Tooting Bec · 0.6 miles
• New Wandsworth · 1.4 miles
• Clapham Common · 1.5 miles
• Colliers Wood · 2.1 miles
• Battersea · 2.2 miles
• Stewarts Lane · 2.4 miles

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Facilities at Balham station

Balham is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 21:30 · Saturday: 06:10 to 21:30 · Sunday: 07:10 to 20:45

Toilets

Cycle parking: 14 spaces (stands).

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

Getting to Balham station

Balham station is in Wandsworth, London, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J1 (Chiswick Roundabout), 6.3 miles north-west.

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

Balham is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Balham 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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