Highbury & Islington train station

You can reach 58 stations directly from Highbury & Islington on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Caledonian Road & Barnsbury, with 319 trains a day.

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• 58 direct destinations
• 19th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free in part
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Highbury & Islington

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

and 18 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Highbury & Islington

Highbury & Islington is on the North London Line, the High Speed 1, the East London Line and the Northern City Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Highbury & Islington station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Highbury & Islington station on 610 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 118 paths on the Wednesday, 59 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 61 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Wednesday, with 14 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 Highbury & Islington station is

23,982,528 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 19th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 3,233,923 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Highbury & Islington and Stratford (London) than any other pair: 2,229,560 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

• Drayton Park 0.5 miles
• Canonbury 0.5 miles
• Essex Road 0.5 miles
• Caledonian Road & Barnsbury 0.5 miles
• Dalston Kingsland 1.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Holloway and Caledonian Road · 0.6 miles
• Holloway car dock · 0.6 miles
• Mildmay Park closed 1934 · 0.9 miles
• Maiden Lane railway stations · 1.1 miles
• Camden Road (Midland) · 1.3 miles
• King's Cross Thameslink · 1.3 miles

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Facilities at Highbury & Islington station

Highbury & Islington is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Waiting room · WiFi

From National Rail's station record, last updated 10 September 2026.

Getting to Highbury & Islington station

Highbury & Islington station is in Islington, London, and is run by London Underground.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 5.6 miles west.

8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Highbury & Islington Station.

Highbury & Islington is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Highbury & Islington 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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