Barking train station

You can reach 37 stations directly from Barking on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Benfleet, with 417 trains a day.

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• 37 direct destinations
• 35th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free in part
• 230 parking spaces
• 10 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Barking

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

and 6 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Barking

Barking is on the High Speed 1, the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, the Gospel Oak to Barking Line and the Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Barking station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Barking station on 1,093 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 198 paths on the Wednesday, 126 paths on the Saturday and 15 paths on the Sunday. 95 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 Tuesday, with 16 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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 Barking station is

13,359,426 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 35th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 1,162,662 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Barking and West Ham than any other pair: 5,081,268 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

• Ilford 1.4 miles
• Woodgrange Park 1.6 miles
• Manor Park 1.7 miles
• Seven Kings 1.8 miles
• Barking Riverside 2.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Beckton · 1.8 miles
• Beckton · 1.9 miles
• Cyprus · 2.3 miles
• Manor Way · 2.3 miles
• Gallions · 2.3 miles
• Beckton Park · 2.4 miles

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Facilities at Barking station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:15 to 23:00 · Saturday: 05:15 to 23:00 · Sunday: 06:15 to 23:00

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Barking station

• Vicarage Field Shopping Centre 230 spaces

Cycle parking: 12 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 6 September 2026.

Getting to Barking station

Barking station is in Barking and Dagenham, London, and is run by c2c.

The nearest motorway junction is M11 J4 (Charlie Brown's), 4.2 miles north.

10 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Barking Station.

Barking is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Barking 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