St Albans City train station
St Albans City is a major interchange: 106 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is London Blackfriars, with 385 trains a day.
St Albans City is the nearest station for postcodes in AL1, AL4. Check your own postcode.
- 106 direct destinations
- 74th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 1,574 parking spaces
- 8 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from St Albans City
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Blackfriars | 385 | 346 | 223 |
| St Pancras International | 385 | 346 | 238 |
| Farringdon | 365 | 336 | 217 |
| City Thameslink | 348 | 234 | 0 |
| West Hampstead Thameslink | 306 | 283 | 238 |
| Harpenden | 256 | 216 | 191 |
| Luton | 256 | 216 | 191 |
| Luton Airport Parkway | 244 | 216 | 191 |
| Brent Cross West | 238 | 212 | 128 |
| Elstree & Borehamwood | 224 | 204 | 120 |
| Mill Hill Broadway | 224 | 204 | 120 |
| Radlett | 224 | 204 | 120 |
| London Bridge | 199 | 187 | 114 |
| Bedford | 181 | 156 | 139 |
| East Croydon | 178 | 152 | 123 |
| Flitwick | 174 | 153 | 138 |
| Leagrave | 173 | 154 | 138 |
| Kentish Town | 170 | 155 | 120 |
| Gatwick Airport | 169 | 152 | 123 |
| Cricklewood | 166 | 155 | 120 |
| Hendon | 166 | 155 | 120 |
| Harlington | 166 | 153 | 138 |
| Three Bridges | 161 | 147 | 97 |
| Elephant & Castle | 156 | 143 | 97 |
| Herne Hill | 143 | 143 | 97 |
| Loughborough Junction | 143 | 143 | 97 |
| Streatham | 143 | 143 | 97 |
| Tulse Hill | 143 | 143 | 97 |
| Sutton | 142 | 143 | 97 |
| Horley | 85 | 74 | 58 |
| Purley | 85 | 74 | 56 |
| Haywards Heath | 82 | 80 | 5 |
| Brighton | 80 | 80 | 5 |
| Preston Park | 79 | 78 | 3 |
| Burgess Hill | 78 | 78 | 4 |
| Hassocks | 78 | 78 | 3 |
| Wivelsfield | 78 | 78 | 3 |
| Balcombe | 75 | 76 | 2 |
| Redhill | 74 | 68 | 58 |
| Haydons Road | 73 | 73 | 51 |
and 66 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving St Albans City
St Albans City is on the Midland Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through St Albans City station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside St Albans City station on 411 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 83 paths on the Wednesday, 28 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 28 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 11 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 St Albans City station is
6,668,998 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 74th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 110,208 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between St Albans City and London St Pancras International than any other pair: 2,067,040 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: 75 stations instead of 106, a drop of about 29%. Saturday runs to 79.
Nearest other stations
- St Albans Abbey 0.8 miles
- Park Street 1.8 miles
- How Wood 2.4 miles
- Bricket Wood 3.4 miles
- Radlett 4.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of St Albans City, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- St Albans (London Road) · 0.4 miles
- Salvation Army Halt · 0.5 miles
- Hill End · 1.3 miles
- Napsbury · 1.7 miles
- Smallford · 2.6 miles
- Nast Hyde Halt · 3.4 miles
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Facilities at St Albans City station
St Albans City is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:45 to 22:00 · Saturday: 06:45 to 21:15 · Sunday: 07:30 to 21:45
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at St Albans City station
- Station Way Multi Storey Car Park 606 spaces, 4 accessible
- Ridgmont Road Car Park 152 spaces, 4 accessible
- Victoria Street Multi Storey Car Park 816 spaces, 13 accessible
Cycle parking: 1,150 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.
Getting to St Albans City station
St Albans City station is in St Albans, East of England, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Thameslink).
The nearest motorway junction is M25 J21A (Bricket Wood), 3.0 miles south-west.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being St Albans City Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
St Albans City 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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