London Blackfriars train 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 591 trains a day.

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• 158 direct destinations
• 29th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 6 bus stops nearby

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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Lines serving London Blackfriars

London Blackfriars is on the Thameslink. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through London Blackfriars station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside London Blackfriars station on 13 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, 3 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 12 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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 London Blackfriars station 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: 82 stations instead of 158, a drop of about 48%. Saturday runs to 113.

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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Facilities at London Blackfriars station

London Blackfriars is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:15 to 20:30 · Saturday: 07:15 to 20:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 16:00

Toilets

Cycle parking: 12 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 July 2026.

Getting to London Blackfriars station

London Blackfriars station is in City of London, London, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Thameslink).

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 6.8 miles north-west.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Blackfriars Station / North Entrance.

London Blackfriars is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

London Blackfriars 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