Essex Road train station
You can reach 31 stations directly from Essex Road on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Drayton Park, with 232 trains a day.
Essex Road is the nearest station for postcodes in N1, N1P. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Essex Road
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drayton Park | 232 | 119 | 164 |
| Finsbury Park | 232 | 151 | 164 |
| Highbury & Islington | 232 | 151 | 164 |
| Moorgate | 232 | 151 | 164 |
| Old Street | 232 | 151 | 164 |
| Alexandra Palace | 227 | 151 | 164 |
| Harringay | 176 | 148 | 151 |
| Hornsey | 176 | 148 | 151 |
| Enfield Chase | 114 | 77 | 80 |
| Gordon Hill | 114 | 77 | 80 |
| Palmers Green | 114 | 77 | 80 |
| Winchmore Hill | 114 | 77 | 80 |
| Bowes Park | 113 | 77 | 80 |
| Grange Park | 113 | 77 | 80 |
| Cuffley | 111 | 77 | 80 |
| Hertford North | 111 | 77 | 80 |
| Brookmans Park | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Hatfield | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Hadley Wood | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| New Barnet | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Potters Bar | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Welwyn Garden City | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Welham Green | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Bayford | 107 | 77 | 80 |
| Crews Hill | 107 | 77 | 80 |
| New Southgate | 105 | 74 | 77 |
| Oakleigh Park | 105 | 74 | 77 |
| Stevenage | 80 | 75 | 70 |
| Watton-at-Stone | 80 | 75 | 70 |
| Hitchin | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Letchworth Garden City | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Lines serving Essex Road
Essex Road is on the Northern City Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Essex Road station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Essex Road station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Essex Road station is
697,932 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 715th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Essex Road and Moorgate than any other pair: 124,590 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
- Canonbury 0.6 miles
- Caledonian Road & Barnsbury 0.8 miles
- Haggerston 0.9 miles
- Drayton Park 0.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Essex Road, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Mildmay Park closed 1934 · 0.8 miles
- Holloway car dock · 1.1 miles
- Holloway and Caledonian Road · 1.1 miles
- Shoreditch · 1.2 miles
- King's Cross Thameslink · 1.2 miles
- Maiden Lane railway stations · 1.3 miles
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Facilities at Essex Road station
Essex Road is staffed full time, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 22:00 · Saturday: closed · Sunday: closed
Cycle parking: 6 spaces.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 16 July 2026.
Getting to Essex Road station
Essex Road station is in Islington, London, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Great Northern).
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 6.0 miles west.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Essex Road Station.
Essex Road is inside the London Travelcard area.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Essex Road 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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