Kensal Rise train station

You can reach 27 stations directly from Kensal Rise on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Brondesbury Park, with 317 trains a day.

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• 27 direct destinations
• 215th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Kensal Rise

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

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Lines serving Kensal Rise

Kensal Rise is on the North London Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Kensal Rise station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Kensal Rise station on 1,000 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 174 paths on the Wednesday, 119 paths on the Saturday and 18 paths on the Sunday. 77 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 Thursday, 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Kensal Rise station is

2,607,790 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 215th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Kensal Rise and West Hampstead than any other pair: 292,256 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

• Kensal Green 0.3 miles
• Brondesbury Park 0.6 miles
• Queen's Park 0.6 miles
• Willesden Junction 1.0 miles
• Brondesbury 1.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Ladbroke Grove · 0.6 miles
• Kensal Green and Harlesden · 0.6 miles
• Mitre Bridge Exchange · 0.8 miles
• West London Junction · 0.9 miles
• St. Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs · 1.0 miles
• Old Oak Common · 1.3 miles

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Facilities at Kensal Rise station

Kensal Rise is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:00 to 10:00

WiFi

Cycle parking: 4 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 1 September 2026.

Getting to Kensal Rise station

Kensal Rise station is in Brent, London, and is run by London Overground.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 2.7 miles north.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Kensal Rise Station.

Kensal Rise is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Kensal Rise 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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