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 Alexandra Palace, with 316 trains a day.

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• 103 direct destinations
• 41st busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 14 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Finsbury Park

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

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 395 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 63 paths on the Wednesday, 78 paths on the Saturday and 5 paths on the Sunday. 30 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 12 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.

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: 57 stations instead of 103, a drop of about 45%. Saturday runs to 75.

Nearest other stations

• Crouch Hill 0.6 miles
• Drayton Park 0.8 miles
• Harringay 0.9 miles
• Harringay Green Lanes 0.9 miles
• Upper Holloway 1.0 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Stroud Green · 0.6 miles
• Hornsey Road · 0.8 miles
• Holloway and Caledonian Road · 0.9 miles
• Crouch End · 1.1 miles
• Holloway car dock · 1.1 miles
• Junction Road · 1.4 miles

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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.

Finsbury Park 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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