Nunhead train station

You can reach 65 stations directly from Nunhead on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Denmark Hill, with 177 trains a day.

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• 65 direct destinations
• 542nd busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Nunhead

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

and 25 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Nunhead

Nunhead is on the Catford Loop Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Nunhead station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Nunhead station on 1,172 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 203 paths on the Wednesday, 121 paths on the Saturday and 50 paths on the Sunday. 55 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Friday, with 22 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 Nunhead station is

997,310 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 542nd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Nunhead and London Victoria than any other pair: 308,418 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: 38 stations instead of 65, a drop of about 42%. Saturday runs to 31.

Nearest other stations

• Queens Road Peckham 0.5 miles
• Brockley 0.7 miles
• Peckham Rye 0.8 miles
• New Cross Gate 0.8 miles
• Crofton Park 1.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Old Kent Road · 0.8 miles
• Honor Oak · 1.2 miles
• Deptford Bridge · 1.4 miles
• Elverson Road · 1.6 miles
• Blackheath Hill closed 1917 · 1.7 miles
• Lordship Lane · 1.9 miles

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Facilities at Nunhead station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 19:30 · Saturday: 08:10 to 14:50 · Sunday: closed

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).

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

Getting to Nunhead station

Nunhead station is in Southwark, London, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Thameslink).

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J1 (Chiswick Roundabout), 9.8 miles west.

8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Nunhead Station.

Nunhead is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Nunhead 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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