City Thameslink train station

City Thameslink is a major interchange: 137 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is London Blackfriars, with 541 trains a day.

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• 137 direct destinations
• 62nd busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 10 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from City Thameslink

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

and 97 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving City Thameslink

City Thameslink is on the Thameslink. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through City Thameslink station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside City Thameslink station on 13 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, 3 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 12 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.

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 City Thameslink station is

7,635,634 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 62nd busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 298,478 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between City Thameslink and St Albans City than any other pair: 435,068 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

There is no Sunday service from City Thameslink. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.

Nearest other stations

• London Blackfriars 0.3 miles
• Farringdon 0.3 miles
• London Cannon Street 0.6 miles
• Moorgate 0.7 miles
• Waterloo East 0.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Bank and Monument stations · 0.7 miles
• Blackfriars (SER) · 0.8 miles
• Borough Road · 1.1 miles
• King's Cross Thameslink · 1.3 miles
• Shoreditch · 1.4 miles
• St Pancras · 1.4 miles

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Facilities at City Thameslink station

City Thameslink is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:15 to 19:45 · Saturday: closed · Sunday: closed

Toilets

Cycle parking: 28 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 1 September 2026.

Getting to City Thameslink station

City Thameslink station is in City of London, London, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Thameslink).

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 6.6 miles north-west.

10 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Fleet Street / City Thameslink.

City Thameslink is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

City Thameslink 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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