Carpenders Park train station

You can reach 18 stations directly from Carpenders Park on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bushey, with 148 trains a day.

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• 18 direct destinations
• 457th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free in part
• 9 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Carpenders Park

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

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Lines serving Carpenders Park

Carpenders Park is on the West Coast Main Line and the Camden to Watford Junction Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Carpenders Park station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Carpenders Park station on 1,102 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 202 paths on the Wednesday, 125 paths on the Saturday and 22 paths on the Sunday. 106 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 Saturday, with 16 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 Carpenders Park station is

1,224,684 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 457th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Carpenders Park and Watford High Street than any other pair: 228,298 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

• Bushey 1.2 miles
• Hatch End 1.5 miles
• Watford High Street 1.7 miles
• Headstone Lane 2.1 miles
• Watford Junction 2.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Watford West · 1.9 miles
• Croxley Green · 2.4 miles
• Watford · 2.7 miles
• Stanmore Village · 3.3 miles
• Belmont · 3.4 miles
• Rickmansworth (Church Street) · 3.5 miles

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Facilities at Carpenders Park station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 10:00 · Saturday: 10:30 to 12:30

WiFi

Cycle parking: 4 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2025.

Getting to Carpenders Park station

Carpenders Park station is in Three Rivers, East of England, and is run by London Overground.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J5 (Berrygrove), 3.0 miles north.

9 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Carpenders Park Railway Station.

Carpenders Park is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Carpenders Park 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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