Kentish Town train station

You can reach 86 stations directly from Kentish Town on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Blackfriars, with 201 trains a day.

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• 86 direct destinations
• 216th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Kentish Town

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

and 46 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Kentish Town

Kentish Town is on the Thameslink and the St Pancras to Chesterfield Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Kentish Town station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Kentish Town station on 47 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 10 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 5 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 14:00 to 15:00 on the Monday, with 4 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 Kentish Town station is

2,589,668 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 216th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Kentish Town and Farringdon than any other pair: 593,996 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

• Kentish Town West 0.4 miles
• Camden Road 0.6 miles
• Gospel Oak 0.7 miles
• Upper Holloway 1.0 miles
• Caledonian Road & Barnsbury 1.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Camden Road (Midland) · 0.4 miles
• Highgate Road railway stations · 0.5 miles
• Junction Road · 0.6 miles
• Haverstock Hill · 0.8 miles
• Maiden Lane railway stations · 0.8 miles
• Primrose Hill · 0.8 miles

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Facilities at Kentish Town station

Kentish Town is staffed full time, with step-free access to no part of the station.

Waiting room

From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2025.

Getting to Kentish Town station

Kentish Town station is in Camden, London, and is run by London Underground.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 4.1 miles west.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Kentish Town.

Kentish Town is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Kentish Town 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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