Brixton train station

You can reach 12 stations directly from Brixton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Beckenham Junction, with 149 trains a day.

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Brixton is the nearest station for postcodes in SW9. Check your own postcode.

12 direct destinations
648th busiest in Britain
Staffed part time
13 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Brixton

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Beckenham Junction	149	78	70
Bickley	149	78	70
Bromley South	149	78	70
Herne Hill	149	78	70
Kent House	130	78	70
Penge East	129	78	70
Shortlands	149	78	70
Sydenham Hill	128	78	70
London Victoria	149	78	70
West Dulwich	128	78	70
Orpington	149	77	70
Petts Wood	149	77	70
Swanley	0	1	0
Sevenoaks	0	1	0
St Mary Cray	0	1	0

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Lines serving Brixton

Brixton is on the Chatham Main Line, the South London Line and the Catford Loop, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Brixton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Brixton station on 1,199 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 207 paths on the Wednesday, 122 paths on the Saturday and 51 paths on the Sunday. 63 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 24 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 Brixton station is

804,378 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 648th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Brixton and Bromley South than any other pair: 107,262 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.