Sydenham train station
You can reach 37 stations directly from Sydenham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Brockley, with 378 trains a day.
Sydenham is the nearest station for postcodes in SE26. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Sydenham
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brockley | 378 | 370 | 305 |
| Forest Hill | 378 | 370 | 305 |
| Honor Oak Park | 378 | 370 | 305 |
| New Cross Gate | 378 | 370 | 305 |
| Dalston Junction | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Haggerston | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Hoxton | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Rotherhithe | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Shoreditch High Street | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Shadwell | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Surrey Quays | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Wapping | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Canada Water | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Whitechapel | 293 | 295 | 237 |
| Crystal Palace | 221 | 223 | 190 |
| Anerley | 157 | 147 | 115 |
| Norwood Junction | 157 | 147 | 115 |
| Penge West | 157 | 147 | 115 |
| West Croydon | 150 | 146 | 114 |
| London Bridge | 83 | 75 | 67 |
| Gipsy Hill | 73 | 74 | 65 |
| Streatham Hill | 73 | 74 | 65 |
| West Norwood | 73 | 74 | 65 |
| Battersea Park | 67 | 70 | 65 |
| Balham | 67 | 71 | 65 |
| Clapham Junction | 67 | 71 | 65 |
| London Victoria | 67 | 71 | 65 |
| Wandsworth Common | 67 | 71 | 65 |
| East Croydon | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Sutton | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Purley Oaks | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Purley | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| South Croydon | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Caterham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kenley | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Whyteleafe South | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Whyteleafe | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Sydenham
Sydenham is on the Brighton Main Line and the London Bridge to Windmill Bridge Junction, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Sydenham station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Sydenham station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Sydenham station is
3,541,540 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 155th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Sydenham and Canada Water than any other pair: 995,818 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: 29 stations instead of 37, a drop of about 22%. Saturday runs to 29.
Nearest other stations
- Penge East 0.6 miles
- Penge West 0.8 miles
- Forest Hill 0.8 miles
- Lower Sydenham 0.9 miles
- Crystal Palace 1.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Sydenham, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Upper Sydenham · 0.7 miles
- Lordship Lane · 1.0 miles
- Crystal Palace (High Level) · 1.1 miles
- Honor Oak · 1.5 miles
- Woodside · 2.8 miles
- Elverson Road · 3.3 miles
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Facilities at Sydenham station
Sydenham is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 20:00 · Saturday: 06:10 to 20:05 · Sunday: 08:10 to 15:45
Cycle parking: 14 spaces (racks).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2025.
Getting to Sydenham station
Sydenham station is in Lewisham, London, and is run by London Overground.
The nearest motorway junction is M25 J4 (Hewitts), 10.4 miles south-east.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Sydenham Station / Kirkdale.
Sydenham is inside the London Travelcard area.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Sydenham 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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