Brent Cross West train station

You can reach 88 stations directly from Brent Cross West on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Blackfriars, with 238 trains a day.

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• 88 direct destinations
• 739th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Brent Cross West

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

and 48 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Brent Cross West

Brent Cross West is on the Midland Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Brent Cross West station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Brent Cross West station on 463 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 95 paths on the Wednesday, 32 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 30 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 05:00 to 06:00 on the Wednesday, 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Brent Cross West station is

675,392 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 739th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Brent Cross West and London St Pancras International than any other pair: 110,746 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: 66 stations instead of 88, a drop of about 25%. Saturday runs to 75.

Nearest other stations

• Cricklewood 0.9 miles
• Hendon 0.9 miles
• Brondesbury 1.9 miles
• West Hampstead Thameslink 2.0 miles
• Brondesbury Park 2.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Welsh Harp · 0.6 miles
• Dudding Hill · 1.2 miles
• Hendon Factory Platform · 1.9 miles
• Wembley Exhibition · 2.1 miles
• Harlesden (Midland) · 2.3 miles
• Hampstead · 2.4 miles

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Facilities at Brent Cross West station

Brent Cross West is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Toilets · Waiting room

Cycle parking: 100 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.

Getting to Brent Cross West station

Brent Cross West station is in Barnet, London, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Thameslink).

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 0.2 miles north.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Brent Cross West Station.

Brent Cross West is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Brent Cross West 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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