How Wood train station
You can reach 7 stations directly from How Wood on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bricket Wood, with 39 trains a day.
How Wood is the nearest station for postcodes in AL2. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from How Wood
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bricket Wood | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| Garston | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| Park Street | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| St Albans Abbey | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| Watford Junction | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| Watford North | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| London Euston | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving How Wood
How Wood is on the Watford Junction - St Albans Abbey Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through How Wood station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside How Wood station in the week beginning 12 October 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 How Wood station is
29,104 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,196th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between How Wood and Watford Junction than any other pair: 11,124 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
- Park Street 0.6 miles
- Bricket Wood 1.0 miles
- St Albans Abbey 1.9 miles
- St Albans City 2.4 miles
- Radlett 2.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of How Wood, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Napsbury · 1.2 miles
- St Albans (London Road) · 2.1 miles
- Salvation Army Halt · 2.6 miles
- Hill End · 3.0 miles
- Smallford · 4.1 miles
- Watford · 4.2 miles
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Facilities at How Wood station
How Wood is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.
Getting to How Wood station
How Wood station is in St Albans, East of England, and is run by West Midlands Trains (London Northwestern Railway).
The nearest motorway junction is M25 J21A (Bricket Wood), 0.9 miles west.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
How 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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