Old Street train station
You can reach 31 stations directly from Old Street on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Drayton Park, with 232 trains a day.
Old Street is the nearest station for postcodes in EC2A, EC1Y, EC1V. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Old Street
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drayton Park | 232 | 119 | 164 |
| Essex Road | 232 | 151 | 164 |
| Finsbury Park | 232 | 151 | 164 |
| Highbury & Islington | 232 | 151 | 164 |
| Moorgate | 232 | 151 | 164 |
| Alexandra Palace | 227 | 151 | 164 |
| Harringay | 176 | 148 | 151 |
| Hornsey | 176 | 148 | 151 |
| Enfield Chase | 114 | 77 | 80 |
| Gordon Hill | 114 | 77 | 80 |
| Palmers Green | 114 | 77 | 80 |
| Winchmore Hill | 114 | 77 | 80 |
| Bowes Park | 113 | 77 | 80 |
| Grange Park | 113 | 77 | 80 |
| Cuffley | 111 | 77 | 80 |
| Hertford North | 111 | 77 | 80 |
| Brookmans Park | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Hatfield | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Hadley Wood | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| New Barnet | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Potters Bar | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Welwyn Garden City | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Welham Green | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Bayford | 107 | 77 | 80 |
| Crews Hill | 107 | 77 | 80 |
| New Southgate | 105 | 74 | 77 |
| Oakleigh Park | 105 | 74 | 77 |
| Stevenage | 80 | 75 | 70 |
| Watton-at-Stone | 80 | 75 | 70 |
| Hitchin | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Letchworth Garden City | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Lines serving Old Street
Old Street is on the Northern City Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Old Street station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Old Street station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Old Street station is
6,077,166 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 84th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Old Street and Moorgate than any other pair: 1,366,744 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
- Moorgate 0.5 miles
- London Liverpool Street 0.6 miles
- Shoreditch High Street 0.6 miles
- Hoxton 0.7 miles
- Farringdon 0.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Old Street, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Shoreditch · 0.4 miles
- Shoreditch · 0.7 miles
- Bank and Monument stations · 0.9 miles
- Leman Street closed 1941 · 1.3 miles
- King's Cross Thameslink · 1.4 miles
- Mile End · 1.4 miles
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Facilities at Old Street station
Old Street is staffed full time, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Waiting room
Cycle parking: 36 spaces.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2025.
Getting to Old Street station
Old Street station is in Islington, London, and is run by London Underground.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 6.8 miles north-west.
11 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Old Street Station.
Old Street is inside the London Travelcard area.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Old Street 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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