Welwyn Garden City train station
You can reach 76 stations directly from Welwyn Garden City on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Finsbury Park, with 212 trains a day.
See Welwyn Garden City on the map
Welwyn Garden City is the nearest station for postcodes in AL8, AL7. Check your own postcode.
- 76 direct destinations
- 225th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 8 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Welwyn Garden City
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finsbury Park | 212 | 155 | 128 |
| Hatfield | 211 | 154 | 128 |
| Potters Bar | 211 | 154 | 128 |
| Alexandra Palace | 195 | 154 | 128 |
| New Barnet | 141 | 78 | 80 |
| New Southgate | 130 | 78 | 80 |
| Oakleigh Park | 130 | 78 | 80 |
| Hadley Wood | 119 | 78 | 80 |
| Brookmans Park | 112 | 76 | 79 |
| Welham Green | 112 | 76 | 79 |
| Drayton Park | 110 | 58 | 77 |
| Essex Road | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Highbury & Islington | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Moorgate | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| Old Street | 110 | 74 | 77 |
| London King's Cross | 81 | 80 | 48 |
| Hitchin | 78 | 77 | 42 |
| Stevenage | 78 | 77 | 42 |
| Knebworth | 77 | 76 | 42 |
| Letchworth Garden City | 77 | 76 | 41 |
| Welwyn North | 77 | 76 | 42 |
| Harringay | 76 | 73 | 72 |
| Hornsey | 76 | 73 | 72 |
| Royston | 50 | 39 | 35 |
| Baldock | 47 | 39 | 35 |
| Cambridge | 46 | 37 | 34 |
| Cambridge South | 46 | 37 | 34 |
| Foxton | 46 | 37 | 34 |
| Meldreth | 46 | 37 | 34 |
| Shepreth | 46 | 37 | 34 |
| London Blackfriars | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| City Thameslink | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| St Pancras International | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| Farringdon | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| Ashwell & Morden | 21 | 10 | 35 |
| Bat & Ball | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Beckenham Hill | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Bellingham | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Bickley | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Bromley South | 21 | 0 | 0 |
and 36 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Welwyn Garden City station on 164 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 30 paths on the Wednesday, 12 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 05:00 to 06:00 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Welwyn Garden City station is
2,516,216 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 225th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 8,564 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Welwyn Garden City and London Kings Cross than any other pair: 635,654 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: 32 stations instead of 76, a drop of about 58%. Saturday runs to 56.
Nearest other stations
- Welwyn North 1.7 miles
- Hatfield 2.5 miles
- Welham Green 4.5 miles
- Knebworth 4.6 miles
- Hertford North 4.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Welwyn Garden City, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Attimore Hall Halt · 1.0 miles
- Ayot · 1.5 miles
- Hatfield Hyde Halt · 1.6 miles
- Lemsford Road Halt · 2.8 miles
- Cole Green · 3.1 miles
- Nast Hyde Halt · 3.7 miles
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Facilities at Welwyn Garden City station
Welwyn Garden City is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 19:30 · Sunday: 07:30 to 19:00
Toilets
From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 September 2026.
Getting to Welwyn Garden City station
Welwyn Garden City station is in Welwyn Hatfield, East of England, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Great Northern).
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J6 (The Clock), 1.6 miles north.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Bus Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Welwyn Garden 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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