London Blackfriars railway station

London Blackfriars is a major interchange: 158 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is St Pancras International, with 602 trains a day.

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Direct trains from London Blackfriars

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

and 118 more stations, each served less often.

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How busy London Blackfriars is

15,193,088 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 29th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 2,234,915 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between London Blackfriars and Brighton than any other pair: 1,320,580 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: 118 stations instead of 158, a drop of about 25%. Saturday runs to 117.

Nearest other stations

• City Thameslink 0.3 miles
• Waterloo East 0.5 miles
• London Cannon Street 0.5 miles
• Farringdon 0.7 miles
• London Waterloo 0.7 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Blackfriars (SER) · 0.4 miles
• Bank and Monument stations · 0.7 miles
• Borough Road · 0.8 miles
• Leman Street closed 1941 · 1.5 miles
• Bricklayers Arms · 1.5 miles
• King's Cross Thameslink · 1.6 miles

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More about this station on Wikipedia.