Hackney Downs train station

You can reach 36 stations directly from Hackney Downs on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Liverpool Street, with 398 trains a day.

See Hackney Downs on the map

Address: Dalston Lane, London, E8 1LA

36 direct destinations
179th busiest in Britain
Staffed part time
Step-free in part
10 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Hackney Downs

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
London Liverpool Street	398	375	342
Bethnal Green	321	301	269
Cheshunt	145	140	138
Chingford	150	150	137
Clapton	150	150	137
Highams Park	150	150	137
St James Street	150	150	137
Walthamstow Central	150	150	137
Wood Street	150	150	137
Bruce Grove	174	151	132
Cambridge Heath	173	151	132
Edmonton Green	174	151	132
London Fields	173	151	132
Rectory Road	174	151	132
Stoke Newington	174	151	132
Silver Street	174	151	132
Stamford Hill	174	151	132
Seven Sisters	175	151	132
White Hart Lane	174	151	132
Broxbourne	74	74	73
Tottenham Hale	73	74	73
Bush Hill Park	99	75	67
Enfield Town	99	75	67
Southbury	75	76	65
Theobalds Grove	75	76	65
Turkey Street	75	76	65
Enfield Lock	73	65	44
Waltham Cross	67	60	44
Hertford East	74	73	42
Rye House	74	73	42
St Margarets	74	73	42
Ware	74	73	42
Bishop's Stortford	0	0	29
Harlow Mill	0	0	29
Harlow Town	0	0	29
Sawbridgeworth	0	0	29
Audley End	0	0	28
Cambridge	0	0	28
Cambridge North	0	0	28
Cambridge South	0	0	28

and 11 more stations, each served less often.

See these routes on the map

Lines serving Hackney Downs

Hackney Downs is on the North London Line, the High Speed 1, the Lea Valley Lines 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 Downs station, hour by hour

No freight is booked through or alongside Hackney Downs station in the week beginning 21 September 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 Hackney Downs station is

3,015,486 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 179th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 1,880,306 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Hackney Downs and London Liverpool Street than any other pair: 1,031,678 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 Central 0.2 miles
London Fields 0.5 miles
Dalston Junction 0.7 miles
Dalston Kingsland 0.7 miles
Homerton 0.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

Mildmay Park closed 1934 · 1.0 miles
Victoria Park · 1.4 miles
Shoreditch · 1.7 miles
Globe Road and Devonshire Street · 1.7 miles
Devonshire Street · 1.7 miles
Mile End · 1.7 miles

Show closed stations on the map

Facilities at Hackney Downs station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:30 to 10:00

WiFi

Cycle parking: 32 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 May 2026.

Getting to Hackney Downs station

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

The nearest motorway junction is M11 J4 (Charlie Brown's), 5.6 miles north-east.

10 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hackney Downs/ Dalston Lane.

Hackney Downs is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Hackney Downs 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