Charlton train station
You can reach 65 stations directly from Charlton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Bridge, with 331 trains a day.
Charlton is the nearest station for postcodes in SE7. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Charlton
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Bridge | 331 | 283 | 254 |
| London Cannon Street | 256 | 210 | 124 |
| Abbey Wood | 246 | 220 | 194 |
| Plumstead | 246 | 220 | 194 |
| Slade Green | 246 | 220 | 194 |
| Woolwich Arsenal | 246 | 220 | 194 |
| Belvedere | 176 | 148 | 132 |
| Erith | 176 | 148 | 132 |
| Woolwich Dockyard | 176 | 148 | 132 |
| Deptford | 173 | 149 | 194 |
| Greenwich | 173 | 149 | 194 |
| Maze Hill | 173 | 149 | 194 |
| Westcombe Park | 173 | 149 | 194 |
| New Cross | 155 | 134 | 60 |
| Dartford | 151 | 152 | 133 |
| St Johns | 142 | 134 | 60 |
| Lewisham | 139 | 134 | 60 |
| Blackheath | 138 | 134 | 60 |
| Greenhithe | 72 | 72 | 63 |
| Gravesend | 72 | 72 | 63 |
| Northfleet | 72 | 72 | 63 |
| Stone Crossing | 72 | 72 | 63 |
| Swanscombe | 72 | 72 | 63 |
| Chatham | 71 | 72 | 3 |
| Gillingham | 71 | 72 | 3 |
| Higham | 71 | 72 | 3 |
| Rochester | 71 | 72 | 3 |
| Strood | 71 | 72 | 3 |
| London Blackfriars | 70 | 72 | 56 |
| St Pancras International | 70 | 72 | 56 |
| Farringdon | 70 | 72 | 56 |
| City Thameslink | 68 | 48 | 0 |
| Barnehurst | 65 | 65 | 60 |
| Bexleyheath | 65 | 63 | 60 |
| Eltham | 65 | 63 | 60 |
| Falconwood | 65 | 63 | 60 |
| Kidbrooke | 65 | 63 | 60 |
| Rainham | 65 | 67 | 2 |
| Welling | 65 | 63 | 60 |
| West Hampstead Thameslink | 57 | 60 | 7 |
and 25 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Charlton
Charlton is on the North Kent Line - Woolwich Branch. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Charlton station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Charlton station on 143 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 26 paths on the Wednesday, 9 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 8 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 Monday, with 6 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 Charlton station is
1,269,452 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 442nd busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 20,420 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Charlton and London Bridge than any other pair: 301,680 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: 47 stations instead of 65, a drop of about 28%. Saturday runs to 53.
Nearest other stations
- Westcombe Park 0.6 miles
- Woolwich Dockyard 1.1 miles
- Maze Hill 1.2 miles
- Custom House 1.6 miles
- Kidbrooke 1.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Charlton, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Silvertown · 1.2 miles
- London City Airport · 1.4 miles
- Connaught Road · 1.5 miles
- Prince Regent · 1.6 miles
- Royal Albert · 1.6 miles
- North Woolwich · 1.6 miles
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Facilities at Charlton station
Charlton is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 19:30 · Saturday: 06:10 to 19:30 · Sunday: 08:30 to 16:00
Toilets
Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 21 May 2026.
Getting to Charlton station
Charlton station is in Greenwich, London, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M11 J4 (Charlie Brown's), 7.6 miles north.
11 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Charlton Stn / Charlton Church La.
Charlton is inside the London Travelcard area.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Charlton 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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