Finsbury Park train station

Finsbury Park is a major interchange: 103 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Stevenage, with 305 trains a day.

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Finsbury Park is the nearest station for postcodes in N4. Check your own postcode.

Direct trains from Finsbury Park

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

DestinationWeekdaySaturdaySunday
Stevenage305304182
Alexandra Palace301234192
Hitchin231231115
Drayton Park217118142
Essex Road217150142
Highbury & Islington217150142
Moorgate217150142
Old Street217150142
Welwyn Garden City203155115
Hatfield202154115
Potters Bar202154118
Harringay179155146
Hornsey179155146
London Blackfriars16113628
St Pancras International16113628
Farringdon16113628
City Thameslink154940
Letchworth Garden City15015179
East Croydon13713628
Gatwick Airport13713628
Three Bridges13713627
London Bridge1351350
New Barnet1327773
New Southgate1217773
Oakleigh Park1217773
Royston12011171
Baldock11711171
Cambridge11610970
Cambridge South11610970
Enfield Chase1128074
Gordon Hill1128074
Palmers Green1128074
Winchmore Hill1128074
Bowes Park1107974
Grange Park1107974
Hadley Wood1107773
Cuffley1098074
Hertford North1098074
Bayford1037873
Brookmans Park1037570

and 63 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Finsbury Park

Finsbury Park is on the East Coast Main Line and the Northern City Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Finsbury Park station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Finsbury Park station on 382 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 65 paths on the Wednesday, 65 paths on the Saturday and 5 paths on the Sunday. 29 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 Tuesday, with 13 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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 Finsbury Park station is

11,176,026 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 41st busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 2,202,802 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Finsbury Park and Moorgate than any other pair: 1,007,830 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: 64 stations instead of 103, a drop of about 38%. Saturday runs to 82.

Nearest other stations

Closed stations nearby

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

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Facilities at Finsbury Park station

Finsbury Park is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:15 to 21:30 · Saturday: 06:15 to 21:30 · Sunday: 06:45 to 21:00

Toilets

Cycle parking: 125 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 18 August 2026.

Getting to Finsbury Park station

Finsbury Park station is in Islington, London, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Great Northern).

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 5.2 miles west.

14 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Finsbury Park Interchange.

Finsbury Park is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

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