Welham Green train station

You can reach 18 stations directly from Welham Green on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Alexandra Palace, with 112 trains a day.

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• 18 direct destinations
• 1,250th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 35 parking spaces
• 3 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Welham Green

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

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Lines serving Welham Green

Welham Green 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 Welham Green station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Welham Green 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.

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

How busy Welham Green station is

253,196 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,250th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Welham Green and Moorgate than any other pair: 45,286 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

• Brookmans Park 1.1 miles
• Hatfield 2.0 miles
• Potters Bar 2.8 miles
• Welwyn Garden City 4.5 miles
• Cuffley 4.7 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Nast Hyde Halt · 2.1 miles
• Lemsford Road Halt · 2.2 miles
• Smallford · 2.6 miles
• Hill End · 3.8 miles
• Hatfield Hyde Halt · 4.2 miles
• Attimore Hall Halt · 4.4 miles

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Facilities at Welham Green station

Welham Green is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:15 to 10:15 · Saturday: closed · Sunday: closed

Waiting room

Parking at Welham Green station

• Station Car Park 35 spaces, 1 accessible

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).

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

Getting to Welham Green station

Welham Green station is in Welwyn Hatfield, East of England, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Great Northern).

The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J2 (Roestock), 1.1 miles west.

3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Welham Green Railway Station.

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

Welham Green 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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