Watford Junction train station

You can reach 87 stations directly from Watford Junction on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Euston, with 383 trains a day.

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• 87 direct destinations
• 70th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 732 parking spaces
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Watford Junction

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 47 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Watford Junction

Watford Junction is on the West Coast Main Line, the Camden to Watford Junction Line and the Watford Junction - St Albans Abbey Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Watford Junction station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Watford Junction station on 1,074 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 197 paths on the Wednesday, 125 paths on the Saturday and 22 paths on the Sunday. 106 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 Wednesday, with 16 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Watford Junction station is

6,940,122 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 70th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 381,822 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Watford Junction and London Euston than any other pair: 3,543,406 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

• Watford North 0.8 miles
• Watford High Street 0.8 miles
• Bushey 1.4 miles
• Garston 1.7 miles
• Carpenders Park 2.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Watford Junction, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Watford · 0.2 miles
• Watford West · 1.3 miles
• Croxley Green · 1.7 miles
• Rickmansworth (Church Street) · 3.5 miles

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Facilities at Watford Junction station

Watford Junction is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:30 to 23:00 · Saturday: 05:30 to 23:00 · Sunday: 06:30 to 22:30

Toilets

Parking at Watford Junction station

• Station Car Park 732 spaces, 19 accessible
  £8.50 off-peak, £11.50 a day, £38.80 a week

Cycle parking: 354 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.

Getting to Watford Junction station

Watford Junction station is in Watford, East of England, and is run by West Midlands Trains (London Northwestern Railway).

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J5 (Berrygrove), 1.3 miles north-east.

8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Watford Junction Railway Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Watford Junction 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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