Railway Stations

London is the railway hub of Britain with rail lines reaching out to all corners of the country. There are ten major rail terminus in the city, all within about a mile and a half’s radius in central London and with only Waterloo south of the River Thames. St Pancras next to Kings Cross will take on a more important role in late 2007 when it takes over from Waterloo as the London arrival and departure point for the Eurostar. Most stations are busy but user friendly and have all the restaurants, shops and amenities you would expect at a modern passenger terminal. Here on this page are the ten stations with the main areas of the country trains leave for and arrive from.

* Charing Cross - southeast England

* Euston - north/northwest England, Scotland

* Kings Cross - north London, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, north/northeast England, Scotland

* Liverpool Street - east London, northeast London, Stansted Airport, East Anglia

* Fenchurch Street - East

* Marylebone - northwest London, the Chilterns

* Paddington - south Wales, west England, southwest England, south Midlands, Heathrow Airport

* St Pancras - east Midlands, south Yorkshire

* Victoria - south England, southeast England, Gatwick Airport, Channel ferries

* Waterloo - southwest London, south England, southwest England. The Eurostar has its terminal at the new St Pancras Station.

Fenchurch Street is the only one that doesn’t connect to a underground train line.

Since the privatisation of the railways in the UK in the 1990’s almost thirty train operating companies have sprung up and fares and levels of service depend on the individual company.

To search for fares and timetables the Network Rail website is a good place to start and the train companies all have their own websites