South Hampstead train station
You can reach 18 stations directly from South Hampstead on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bushey, with 148 trains a day.
See South Hampstead on the map
South Hampstead is the nearest station for postcodes in NW8. Check your own postcode.
- 18 direct destinations
- 889th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from South Hampstead
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bushey | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Carpenders Park | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| London Euston | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Headstone Lane | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Harlesden | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Harrow & Wealdstone | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Hatch End | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Kilburn High Road | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Kensal Green | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Kenton | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| North Wembley | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Queen's Park | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Stonebridge Park | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| South Kenton | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Watford High Street | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Watford Junction | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Willesden Junction | 148 | 117 | 108 |
| Wembley Central | 148 | 117 | 108 |
Lines serving South Hampstead
South Hampstead is on the West Coast Main Line, the Chiltern Main Line, the Watford DC line and the London Euston to Crewe Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through South Hampstead station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside South Hampstead station on 469 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 93 paths on the Wednesday, 32 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 58 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 14 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 South Hampstead station is
477,560 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 889th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between South Hampstead and London Euston than any other pair: 223,864 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
- Kilburn High Road 0.6 miles
- Finchley Road & Frognal 0.6 miles
- West Hampstead 0.7 miles
- West Hampstead Thameslink 0.8 miles
- Brondesbury 1.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of South Hampstead, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Primrose Hill · 1.0 miles
- Hampstead · 1.1 miles
- Haverstock Hill · 1.2 miles
- Edgware Road · 1.5 miles
- Highgate Road railway stations · 1.7 miles
- Great Portland Street · 1.9 miles
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Facilities at South Hampstead station
South Hampstead is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:30 to 10:00
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2025.
Getting to South Hampstead station
South Hampstead station is in Camden, London, and is run by London Overground.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J1 (Staples Corner), 3.0 miles north-west.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being South Hampstead Station / Loudoun Road.
South Hampstead is inside the London Travelcard area.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
South Hampstead 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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