Caledonian Road & Barnsbury train station

You can reach 27 stations directly from Caledonian Road & Barnsbury on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Camden Road, with 319 trains a day.

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• 27 direct destinations
• 349th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Caledonian Road & Barnsbury

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

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Lines serving Caledonian Road & Barnsbury

Caledonian Road & Barnsbury is on the North London Line and the High Speed 1, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Caledonian Road & Barnsbury station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Caledonian Road & Barnsbury station on 610 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 118 paths on the Wednesday, 59 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 61 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 Wednesday, 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 Caledonian Road & Barnsbury station is

1,566,788 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 349th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Caledonian Road & Barnsbury and Stratford (London) than any other pair: 301,342 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

• Highbury & Islington 0.5 miles
• Drayton Park 0.8 miles
• Essex Road 0.8 miles
• London King's Cross 0.8 miles
• London St. Pancras International 0.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Holloway car dock · 0.4 miles
• Maiden Lane railway stations · 0.6 miles
• Holloway and Caledonian Road · 0.6 miles
• Camden Road (Midland) · 0.8 miles
• King's Cross Thameslink · 0.9 miles
• St Pancras · 1.0 miles

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Facilities at Caledonian Road & Barnsbury station

Caledonian Road & Barnsbury is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:30 to 10:00

Cycle parking: 9 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 September 2026.

Getting to Caledonian Road & Barnsbury station

Caledonian Road & Barnsbury station is in Islington, London, and is run by London Overground.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 5.2 miles west.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being The Hemingford Arms.

Caledonian Road & Barnsbury is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Caledonian Road & Barnsbury 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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