Hackney Central train station

You can reach 27 stations directly from Hackney Central on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Caledonian Road & Barnsbury, with 319 trains a day.

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• 27 direct destinations
• 96th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 25 parking spaces
• 10 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Hackney Central

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

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Lines serving Hackney Central

Hackney Central is on the North London Line, the High Speed 1 and the West Anglia 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 Hackney Central station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Hackney Central station on 888 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 163 paths on the Wednesday, 125 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 79 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 Hackney Central station is

5,316,954 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 96th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 1,782,085 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Hackney Central and Highbury and Islington than any other pair: 1,728,158 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

• Hackney Downs 0.2 miles
• London Fields 0.4 miles
• Homerton 0.6 miles
• Dalston Junction 0.8 miles
• Dalston Kingsland 0.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Mildmay Park closed 1934 · 1.1 miles
• Victoria Park · 1.2 miles
• Devonshire Street · 1.5 miles
• Globe Road and Devonshire Street · 1.5 miles
• Old Ford · 1.5 miles
• Mile End · 1.6 miles

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Facilities at Hackney Central station

Hackney Central is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:15 to 10:00, 13:00 to 18:00 · Saturday: 10:15 to 16:00

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Parking at Hackney Central station

• Amhurst Road 25 spaces
  £2.60 an hour, £6.00 a day

Cycle parking: 16 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 26 August 2026.

Getting to Hackney Central station

Hackney Central station is in Hackney, London, and is run by London Overground.

The nearest motorway junction is M11 J4 (Charlie Brown's), 5.5 miles north-east.

10 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Graham Road / Hackney Central.

Hackney Central is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Hackney Central 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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