Clapton is a railway station on the Chingford branch of the Lea Valley lines, located in Upper Clapton in the London Borough of Hackney, east London. It is 3 miles 78 chains (6.4 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Hackney Downs and St. James Street. The station has been operated by London Overground since 2015.

Clapton
A London Overground Class 315 at Clapton in June 2019
Clapton Location of Clapton in Greater London
Location	Upper Clapton
Local authority	London Borough of Hackney
Managed by	London Overground
Station code	CPT
DfT category	D
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2 and 3
National Rail annual entry and exit
2016–17	1.806 million[1]
2017–18	1.787 million[1]
2018–19	1.872 million[1]
2019–20	1.731 million[1]
2020–21	0.571 million[1]
Railway companies
Original company	Great Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway British Railways
Key dates
1 July 1872	opened
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51.5617°N 0.0571°W / 51.5617; -0.0571
London transport portal

The station is in Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3.[2]

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Cheshunt Theobalds Grove Enfield Town Turkey Street Romford Bush Hill Park Southbury Emerson Park Upminster Edmonton Green Silver Street Chingford White Hart Lane Highams Park Watford Junction Bruce Grove Wood Street Watford Seven Sisters Walthamstow Central High Street () Harringay Blackhorse Road Walthamstow Queen's Road Bushey Green Lanes Carpenders Park Crouch Hill South Tottenham St. James Leyton Midland Road Hatch End Upper Holloway () Stamford Hill Street Leytonstone Headstone Lane Stoke Newington Clapton High Road Harrow & Kentish Town West Rectory Road Wanstead Park () Wealdstone Gospel Oak Camden Road () Hackney Woodgrange Park Kenton () () Caledonian Road Canonbury Downs Barking South Kenton & Barnsbury Barking Riverside () North Highbury & Islington Dalston Kingsland Hackney Central Wembley Hampstead Heath Dalston Wembley Finchley Road & Frognal () Junction London Fields Central West Hampstead ( ) Haggerston Cambridge Heath Stonebridge Brondesbury Hoxton Homerton Park Brondesbury Park Shoreditch High Street Bethnal Green Hackney Wick Harlesden Kensal Rise Stratford Kensal Green Liverpool Whitechapel Willesden Queen's Park Street Shadwell () Junction Kilburn High Road Wapping South Hampstead () Rotherhithe Shepherd's Bush () Euston () Canada Water Kensington (Olympia) Surrey Quays West Brompton Battersea Park Imperial Wharf () (limited service) New Cross Clapham Queens Road Peckham New Cross Gate Junction Peckham Rye Brockley Acton Central Wandsworth Road Denmark Hill Honor Oak Park South Acton () Clapham High Street Forest Hill Gunnersbury Sydenham Kew Gardens Richmond Crystal Palace Penge West Anerley Norwood Junction West Croydon ()
Legend
Station National Rail Accessible station Thameslink Interchange station Elizabeth line Accessible interchange London Underground Internal interchange London Trams Out-of-station interchange London River Services

Services

The typical off-peak weekday service consists of:

• 4 trains per hour (tph) to London Liverpool Street;
• 4 tph to Chingford.

Before London Overground started operating the Chingford line, there was one train running between Liverpool Street and Hertford East that called here which provided the station with a link to Tottenham Hale and other stations such as Cheshunt, Broxbourne, and Ware.

Connections

London Buses routes 106, 253, 254 and 393 and night routes N253 serve the station.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clapton railway station.

• Train times and station information for Clapton railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	London Overground			Following station
Hackney Downs towards Liverpool Street		Chingford Line		St. James Street towards Chingford