Farringdon train station

Farringdon is a major interchange: 175 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Bond Street, with 664 trains a day.

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• 175 direct destinations
• 8th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free in part
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Farringdon

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

and 135 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Farringdon

Farringdon is on the Elizabeth Line and the Thameslink, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Farringdon station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Farringdon 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 Farringdon station is

50,171,290 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 8th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 9,341,764 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Farringdon and London Liverpool Street than any other pair: 5,060,804 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: 128 stations instead of 175, a drop of about 27%. Saturday runs to 137.

Nearest other stations

• City Thameslink 0.3 miles
• London Blackfriars 0.7 miles
• Moorgate 0.7 miles
• Old Street 0.8 miles
• London Cannon Street 0.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Bank and Monument stations · 0.9 miles
• King's Cross Thameslink · 1.0 miles
• Blackfriars (SER) · 1.1 miles
• St Pancras · 1.1 miles
• Shoreditch · 1.2 miles
• Shoreditch · 1.5 miles

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Facilities at Farringdon station

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

Ticket office: every day: 09:30 to 16:30

Toilets

Cycle parking: 16 spaces.

From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 September 2026.

Getting to Farringdon station

Farringdon station is in Islington, London, and is run by London Underground.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 6.4 miles north-west.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Farringdon Station.

Farringdon is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Farringdon 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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