Garston train station
You can reach 7 stations directly from Garston on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bricket Wood, with 39 trains a day.
Garston is the nearest station for postcodes in WD25. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Garston
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bricket Wood | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| How Wood | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| Park Street | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| St Albans Abbey | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| Watford Junction | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| Watford North | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| London Euston | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Garston
Garston is on the Watford Junction - St Albans Abbey Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Garston station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Garston 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 Garston station is
53,142 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,022nd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Garston and Watford Junction than any other pair: 31,626 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
- Watford North 0.9 miles
- Bricket Wood 1.6 miles
- Watford Junction 1.7 miles
- Watford High Street 2.4 miles
- How Wood 2.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Garston, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Watford · 1.6 miles
- Watford West · 3.0 miles
- Croxley Green · 3.2 miles
- Napsbury · 3.8 miles
- St Albans (London Road) · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Garston station
Garston is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.
Getting to Garston station
Garston station is in Watford, East of England, and is run by West Midlands Trains (London Northwestern Railway).
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J5 (Berrygrove), 0.8 miles south-east.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Tibbles Close.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Garston 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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