Harold Wood train station

You can reach 26 stations directly from Harold Wood on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Brentwood, with 336 trains a day.

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• 26 direct destinations
• 152nd busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 100 parking spaces
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Harold Wood

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

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Lines serving Harold Wood

Harold Wood 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 Harold Wood station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Harold Wood station on 378 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 65 paths on the Wednesday, 75 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 38 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 03:00 to 04:00 on the Saturday, with 10 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 Harold Wood station is

3,637,666 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 152nd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Harold Wood and Stratford (London) than any other pair: 663,302 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

• Gidea Park 1.5 miles
• Emerson Park 1.8 miles
• Upminster 2.5 miles
• Romford 2.6 miles
• Brentwood 3.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Crowlands · 3.5 miles

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Facilities at Harold Wood station

Harold Wood is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 19:40 · Saturday: 06:10 to 19:40 · Sunday: 07:10 to 18:30

Toilets

Parking at Harold Wood station

• Station Car Park 100 spaces, 7 accessible

From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.

Getting to Harold Wood station

Harold Wood station is in Havering, London, and is run by Elizabeth line.

The nearest motorway junction is M25 J28 (Brook Street), 1.6 miles north-east.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Harold Wood Station.

Harold Wood is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Harold Wood 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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