Hither Green train station

You can reach 46 stations directly from Hither Green on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Bridge, with 340 trains a day.

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• 46 direct destinations
• 188th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free in part
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Hither Green

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

and 6 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Hither Green

Hither Green is on the South Eastern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Hither Green station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Hither Green station on 469 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 94 paths on the Wednesday, 10 paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 30 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 06:00 to 07:00 on the Tuesday, 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 Hither Green station is

2,899,052 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 188th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 212,143 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Hither Green and London Bridge than any other pair: 981,238 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.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 29 stations instead of 46, a drop of about 37%. Saturday runs to 29.

Nearest other stations

• Lee 0.7 miles
• Ladywell 0.9 miles
• Blackheath 1.1 miles
• Lewisham 1.1 miles
• Catford Bridge 1.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Elverson Road · 1.3 miles
• Blackheath Hill closed 1917 · 1.6 miles
• Deptford Bridge · 1.8 miles
• Greenwich Park · 2.0 miles
• Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich · 2.1 miles
• Honor Oak · 2.5 miles

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Facilities at Hither Green station

Hither Green is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 20:00 · Saturday: 06:10 to 19:30 · Sunday: 08:10 to 19:40

Toilets

Cycle parking: 56 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.

Getting to Hither Green station

Hither Green station is in Lewisham, London, and is run by Southeastern.

The nearest motorway junction is M20 J1 (Swanley), 9.1 miles south-east.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hither Green.

Hither Green is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Hither Green 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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