New Eltham train station
You can reach 42 stations directly from New Eltham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Bridge, with 201 trains a day.
- 42 direct destinations
- 283rd busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 115 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from New Eltham
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Bridge | 201 | 73 | 65 |
| Bexley | 180 | 73 | 65 |
| Crayford | 180 | 73 | 65 |
| Sidcup | 180 | 73 | 65 |
| Albany Park | 175 | 73 | 65 |
| Lee | 174 | 73 | 65 |
| Mottingham | 174 | 73 | 65 |
| Hither Green | 173 | 73 | 65 |
| Charing Cross | 150 | 73 | 65 |
| Waterloo East | 150 | 73 | 65 |
| Dartford | 149 | 73 | 65 |
| Greenhithe | 81 | 2 | 65 |
| Gravesend | 81 | 2 | 65 |
| Lewisham | 80 | 72 | 8 |
| Stone Crossing | 78 | 2 | 65 |
| Northfleet | 77 | 2 | 65 |
| Swanscombe | 77 | 2 | 65 |
| London Cannon Street | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| New Cross | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| Abbey Wood | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Belvedere | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Charlton | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Deptford | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Erith | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Greenwich | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Maze Hill | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Plumstead | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| St Johns | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Slade Green | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Westcombe Park | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Woolwich Arsenal | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Woolwich Dockyard | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Higham | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Strood | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| London Blackfriars | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Chatham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark Hill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Elephant & Castle | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Gillingham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nunhead | 1 | 0 | 0 |
and 2 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving New Eltham
New Eltham is on the Dartford Loop Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through New Eltham station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside New Eltham station on 435 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 86 paths on the Wednesday, 11 paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 20 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 12:00 to 13:00 on the Tuesday, with 10 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy New Eltham station is
2,038,220 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 283rd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between New Eltham and London Bridge than any other pair: 687,432 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: 17 stations instead of 42, a drop of about 60%. Saturday runs to 17.
Nearest other stations
- Mottingham 0.9 miles
- Sidcup 1.4 miles
- Eltham 1.5 miles
- Falconwood 1.5 miles
- Elmstead Woods 1.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of New Eltham, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Eltham Park · 1.4 miles
- Church Manor Way Halt · 3.9 miles
- North Woolwich · 4.2 miles
- Elverson Road · 4.3 miles
- Blackheath Hill closed 1917 · 4.4 miles
- King George V · 4.4 miles
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Facilities at New Eltham station
New Eltham is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:40 to 20:00 · Saturday: 06:40 to 20:00 · Sunday: 08:10 to 15:40
Toilets
Parking at New Eltham station
- Station Car Park 115 spaces, 6 accessible
£7.50 off-peak, £8.30 a day, £35.00 a week
Cycle parking: 46 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 30 August 2026.
Getting to New Eltham station
New Eltham station is in Greenwich, London, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M20 J1 (Swanley), 6.0 miles south-east.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being New Eltham Stn /Footscray Road.
New Eltham is inside the London Travelcard area.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
New Eltham 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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