Forest Gate train station

You can reach 26 stations directly from Forest Gate on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Chadwell Heath, with 350 trains a day.

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• 26 direct destinations
• 87th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Forest Gate

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

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Lines serving Forest Gate

Forest Gate is on the Elizabeth Line and the Great Eastern Main Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Forest Gate station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Forest Gate station on 741 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 133 paths on the Wednesday, 118 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 69 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 21 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 Forest Gate station is

5,835,876 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 87th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Forest Gate and Stratford (London) than any other pair: 1,351,410 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

• Wanstead Park 0.2 miles
• Maryland 0.8 miles
• Woodgrange Park 0.9 miles
• Manor Park 1.0 miles
• Leytonstone High Road 1.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Stratford High Street · 1.3 miles
• Abbey Road · 1.5 miles
• Pudding Mill Lane · 1.9 miles
• Star Lane · 2.1 miles
• Old Ford · 2.3 miles
• Victoria Park · 2.3 miles

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Facilities at Forest Gate station

Forest Gate is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 19:40 · Saturday: 06:40 to 18:40 · Sunday: 08:10 to 15:40

Toilets

From National Rail's station record, last updated 17 August 2026.

Getting to Forest Gate station

Forest Gate station is in Newham, London, and is run by Elizabeth line.

The nearest motorway junction is M11 J4 (Charlie Brown's), 3.4 miles north.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Forest Gate Station.

Forest Gate is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Forest Gate 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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