Potters Bar train station
You can reach 54 stations directly from Potters Bar on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Finsbury Park, with 211 trains a day.
Potters Bar is the nearest station for postcodes in EN6. Check your own postcode.
- 54 direct destinations
- 227th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 273 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Potters Bar
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finsbury Park | 211 | 154 | 128 |
| Hatfield | 211 | 154 | 128 |
| Welwyn Garden City | 211 | 154 | 128 |
| Alexandra Palace | 195 | 154 | 128 |
| New Barnet | 141 | 78 | 80 |
| New Southgate | 130 | 78 | 80 |
| Oakleigh Park | 130 | 78 | 80 |
| Hadley Wood | 119 | 78 | 80 |
| Brookmans Park | 112 | 76 | 79 |
| Welham Green | 112 | 76 | 79 |
| Drayton Park | 110 | 58 | 77 |
| Essex Road | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Highbury & Islington | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Moorgate | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Old Street | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| London King's Cross | 80 | 80 | 48 |
| Harringay | 76 | 73 | 72 |
| Hitchin | 76 | 76 | 42 |
| Hornsey | 76 | 73 | 72 |
| Knebworth | 76 | 76 | 42 |
| Letchworth Garden City | 76 | 76 | 41 |
| Stevenage | 76 | 76 | 42 |
| Welwyn North | 76 | 76 | 42 |
| Royston | 49 | 39 | 35 |
| Baldock | 46 | 39 | 35 |
| Cambridge | 45 | 37 | 34 |
| Cambridge South | 45 | 37 | 34 |
| Foxton | 45 | 37 | 34 |
| Meldreth | 45 | 37 | 34 |
| Shepreth | 45 | 37 | 34 |
| Bat & Ball | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Beckenham Hill | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| London Blackfriars | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Bellingham | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Bickley | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Bromley South | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Crofton Park | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Catford | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| City Thameslink | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark Hill | 21 | 0 | 0 |
and 14 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Potters Bar
Potters Bar is on the East Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Potters Bar station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Potters Bar station on 114 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 20 paths on the Wednesday, 10 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 15 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 01:00 to 02:00 on the Tuesday, with 4 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 Potters Bar station is
2,486,164 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 227th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 51,414 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Potters Bar and Finsbury Park than any other pair: 572,194 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: 32 stations instead of 54, a drop of about 41%. Saturday runs to 31.
Nearest other stations
- Brookmans Park 1.7 miles
- Hadley Wood 2.1 miles
- Welham Green 2.8 miles
- New Barnet 3.5 miles
- Cuffley 3.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Potters Bar, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Nast Hyde Halt · 4.7 miles
- Smallford · 4.8 miles
- Lemsford Road Halt · 4.9 miles
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Facilities at Potters Bar station
Potters Bar is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:15 to 20:10 · Saturday: 07:15 to 19:10 · Sunday: 08:15 to 19:30
Toilets
Parking at Potters Bar station
- Station Car Park 273 spaces, 4 accessible
Cycle parking: 84 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 August 2026.
Getting to Potters Bar station
Potters Bar station is in Hertsmere, East of England, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Great Northern).
The nearest motorway junction is M25 J24 (Potters Bar), 1.2 miles south-east.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Potters Bar Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Potters Bar 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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