Peckham Rye train station

Peckham Rye is a major interchange: 107 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Denmark Hill, with 322 trains a day.

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• 107 direct destinations
• 82nd busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Peckham Rye

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

and 67 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Peckham Rye

Peckham Rye is on the South London Line and the Catford Loop Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Peckham Rye station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Peckham Rye station on 1,142 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 200 paths on the Wednesday, 106 paths on the Saturday and 50 paths on the Sunday. 48 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 20 paths booked.

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 Peckham Rye station is

6,136,674 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 82nd busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 1,140,205 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Peckham Rye and Canada Water than any other pair: 836,132 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: 60 stations instead of 107, a drop of about 44%. Saturday runs to 59.

Nearest other stations

• Queens Road Peckham 0.6 miles
• Nunhead 0.8 miles
• East Dulwich 0.8 miles
• Denmark Hill 0.9 miles
• New Cross Gate 1.3 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Old Kent Road · 0.9 miles
• Camberwell · 1.2 miles
• Honor Oak · 1.5 miles
• Walworth Road · 1.5 miles
• Bricklayers Arms · 1.6 miles
• East Brixton · 1.7 miles

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Facilities at Peckham Rye station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 19:45 · Saturday: 06:10 to 19:45 · Sunday: 07:45 to 16:20

Toilets

Cycle parking: 84 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.

Getting to Peckham Rye station

Peckham Rye station is in Southwark, London, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J1 (Chiswick Roundabout), 9.0 miles west.

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

Peckham Rye is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Peckham Rye 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