Gospel Oak train station

You can reach 39 stations directly from Gospel Oak on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Brondesbury Park, with 317 trains a day.

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• 39 direct destinations
• 211th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Gospel Oak

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

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Lines serving Gospel Oak

Gospel Oak is on the North London Line and the Gospel Oak to Barking Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Gospel Oak station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Gospel Oak station on 1,001 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 174 paths on the Wednesday, 119 paths on the Saturday and 19 paths on the Sunday. 77 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 02:00 to 03:00 on the Saturday, with 16 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 Gospel Oak station is

2,664,268 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 211th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 1,749,395 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Gospel Oak and Highbury and Islington than any other pair: 273,930 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

• Hampstead Heath 0.6 miles
• Kentish Town West 0.6 miles
• Kentish Town 0.7 miles
• Camden Road 1.1 miles
• Upper Holloway 1.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Highgate Road railway stations · 0.3 miles
• Haverstock Hill · 0.3 miles
• Junction Road · 0.7 miles
• Primrose Hill · 0.9 miles
• Hampstead · 1.0 miles
• Camden Road (Midland) · 1.0 miles

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Facilities at Gospel Oak station

Gospel Oak is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Saturday: 07:30 to 10:00

Toilets · WiFi

Cycle parking: 3 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.

Getting to Gospel Oak station

Gospel Oak station is in Camden, London, and is run by London Overground.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 3.5 miles west.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Gospel Oak Station.

Gospel Oak is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Gospel Oak 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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