Hemel Hempstead train station
You can reach 24 stations directly from Hemel Hempstead on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Euston, with 154 trains a day.
See Hemel Hempstead on the map
Address: London Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9BQ
Hemel Hempstead is the nearest station for postcodes in HP1. Check your own postcode.
- 24 direct destinations
- 342nd busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 492 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Hemel Hempstead
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Euston | 154 | 135 | 76 |
| Watford Junction | 154 | 135 | 76 |
| Berkhamsted | 154 | 133 | 75 |
| Milton Keynes Central | 80 | 81 | 75 |
| Bletchley | 88 | 81 | 74 |
| Leighton Buzzard | 88 | 81 | 74 |
| Harrow & Wealdstone | 140 | 129 | 66 |
| Tring | 153 | 131 | 61 |
| Apsley | 84 | 73 | 57 |
| Kings Langley | 83 | 74 | 57 |
| Cheddington | 72 | 71 | 56 |
| Bushey | 83 | 57 | 48 |
| Northampton | 14 | 25 | 34 |
| Wolverton | 14 | 23 | 31 |
| Rugby | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| Long Buckby | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| Coventry | 3 | 9 | 15 |
| Birmingham International | 3 | 9 | 14 |
| Birmingham New Street | 3 | 9 | 14 |
| Marston Green | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| Tile Hill | 3 | 8 | 13 |
| Berkswell | 3 | 8 | 12 |
| Canley | 3 | 8 | 12 |
| Hampton-in-Arden | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| Lea Hall | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Stechford | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Adderley Park | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Atherstone | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Crewe | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lichfield Trent Valley | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Nuneaton | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Rugeley Trent Valley | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Stafford | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tamworth | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Lines serving Hemel Hempstead
Hemel Hempstead is on the West Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Hemel Hempstead station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Hemel Hempstead station on 1,074 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 197 paths on the Wednesday, 123 paths on the Saturday and 22 paths on the Sunday. 106 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 01:00 to 02:00 on the Wednesday, with 15 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Hemel Hempstead station is
1,610,586 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 342nd busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 11,101 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Hemel Hempstead and London Euston than any other pair: 1,069,248 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
- Apsley 1.4 miles
- Kings Langley 3.4 miles
- Berkhamsted 3.4 miles
- Chalfont & Latimer 5.9 miles
- Garston 6.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hemel Hempstead, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Heath Park Halt · 0.7 miles
- Hemel Hempsted · 1.4 miles
- Godwin's Halt · 2.4 miles
- Beaumont's Halt · 4.9 miles
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Facilities at Hemel Hempstead station
Hemel Hempstead is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 19:00
Toilets
Parking at Hemel Hempstead station
- Station Car Park 492 spaces, 9 accessible
£7.00 off-peak, £11.00 a day, £33.40 a week
Cycle parking: 200 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.
Getting to Hemel Hempstead station
Hemel Hempstead station is in Dacorum, East of England, and is run by West Midlands Trains (London Northwestern Railway).
The nearest motorway junction is M25 J20 (Kings Langley), 3.5 miles south-east.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hemel Hempstead Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hemel Hempstead 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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