Ponders End train station
You can reach 32 stations directly from Ponders End on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Brimsdown, with 75 trains a day.
Address: South Street, Enfield, EN3 4QB
Direct trains from Ponders End
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brimsdown | 75 | 153 | 64 |
| Broxbourne | 75 | 75 | 64 |
| Enfield Lock | 75 | 153 | 64 |
| Tottenham Hale | 75 | 153 | 64 |
| London Liverpool Street | 74 | 75 | 8 |
| Hackney Downs | 73 | 74 | 0 |
| Hertford East | 73 | 73 | 61 |
| Rye House | 73 | 73 | 61 |
| St Margarets | 73 | 73 | 61 |
| Ware | 73 | 73 | 61 |
| Cheshunt | 71 | 75 | 53 |
| Waltham Cross | 69 | 153 | 58 |
| Meridian Water | 3 | 31 | 1 |
| Northumberland Park | 3 | 2 | 24 |
| Bishop's Stortford | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Harlow Mill | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Harlow Town | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Roydon | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Sawbridgeworth | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Audley End | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge North | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge South | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ely | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Elsenham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Great Chesterford | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Lea Bridge | 1 | 79 | 64 |
| Newport | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Shelford | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Stratford | 1 | 79 | 64 |
| Stansted Mountfitchet | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Whittlesford Parkway | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Ponders End
Ponders End is on the Lea Valley Lines. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Ponders End station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Ponders End station on 41 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 9 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 05:00 to 06:00 on the Tuesday, with 3 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 Ponders End station is
884,028 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 598th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Ponders End and Tottenham Hale than any other pair: 381,296 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: 20 stations instead of 32, a drop of about 38%. Saturday runs to 21.
Nearest other stations
- Southbury 0.8 miles
- Brimsdown 0.9 miles
- Bush Hill Park 1.5 miles
- Edmonton Green 1.7 miles
- Enfield Lock 1.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Ponders End, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Carterhatch Lane · 1.4 miles
- Roding Valley · 3.8 miles
- Shern Hall Street · 4.2 miles
- West Green · 4.5 miles
- Noel Park and Wood Green · 4.5 miles
- St Ann's Road · 4.8 miles
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Facilities at Ponders End station
Ponders End is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
WiFi
Cycle parking: 6 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 May 2026.
Getting to Ponders End station
Ponders End station is in Enfield, London, and is run by Greater Anglia.
The nearest motorway junction is M25 J25 (Waltham Cross), 2.7 miles north.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Ponders End Station.
Ponders End is inside the London Travelcard area.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Ponders End 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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