Nine London railway stations have a staffed left-luggage office, all run by the same operator, and all of them open 07:00 to 23:00 seven days a week. The published tariff at eight of the nine is £10.00 per item for up to three hours and £15.00 for up to 24 hours; Victoria is cheaper, and app-based storage in nearby shops starts at roughly a quarter of the price.
This page is about the offices themselves: which station has one, which platform or concourse it stands on, what it charges, and when paying less somewhere else is the better move. Our general guide to leaving bags in London covers hotels, hostels and the wider picture; this one stays inside the stations.
One thing to fix before you read on. Network Rail's station pages list only Monday to Friday hours, which has led a lot of travellers to believe the offices shut at the weekend. They do not. The operator's own booking site shows all nine London branches open every day of the week, including Saturday and Sunday.
Station left luggage in one box
- Stations with an office
- King's Cross, St Pancras, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, London Bridge, Liverpool Street, Charing Cross
- Operator
- Excess Baggage Company, trading for bookings as left-baggage.co.uk (Excess Baggage (Airports) Ltd)
- Hours at all nine
- Monday to Sunday, 07:00 to 23:00 (September 2026)
- Typical price
- £10.00 per item up to 3 hours; £15.00 up to 24 hours
- Victoria rail station
- £10.00 up to 6 hours; £15.00 up to 24 hours; cheaper again beyond that
- Security
- Every bag is x-rayed; electrical items come out; hand searches happen
- Liability limit
- £200 per transaction, per the operator's published terms
The nine offices, and where each one actually stands
Knowing the station is not enough. These are big buildings, and the difference between the right end and the wrong end of Waterloo is ten minutes with a suitcase. The addresses below come from the operator's own location data, checked in September 2026.
| Station | Where the office is | Hours | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| King's Cross | Main concourse, 3 King's Boulevard, N1 9AP | Daily 07:00-23:00 | 020 3468 4690 |
| St Pancras International | Main concourse, Euston Road, N1C 4QL | Daily 07:00-23:00 | 020 3468 4665 |
| Euston | By platforms 16-18, Euston Road, NW1 1DY | Daily 07:00-23:00 | 020 3468 4670 |
| Paddington | By platform 12, Praed Street, W2 1HQ | Daily 07:00-23:00 | 020 3468 4709 |
| Victoria | By platform 8, Buckingham Palace Road, SW1V 1JU | Daily 07:00-23:00 | 020 3468 4551 |
| Waterloo | Southbank side, Exit 5, Station Approach, SE1 8SW | Daily 07:00-23:00 | Not published |
| London Bridge | Unit SU64, London Bridge Street, SE1 9SL | Daily 07:00-23:00 | 020 3468 4714 |
| Liverpool Street | By platform 10, EC2M 7QH | Daily 07:00-23:00 | 020 3468 4552 |
| Charing Cross | Charing Cross station, Strand, WC2N 5HR | Daily 07:00-23:00 | Not published |
Two of these deserve a note. St Pancras has its own office, on the main concourse, so Eurostar passengers do not have to cross to King's Cross with their bags. And Liverpool Street has one too, by platform 10, which matters because the Network Rail page for that station carries no facilities table at all. If you have read elsewhere that Liverpool Street has no left luggage, that is an absence of information rather than an absence of a counter.
Charing Cross and London Bridge are the two most travellers miss. Charing Cross sits at the bottom of Trafalgar Square, which makes it the most central place in London to park a suitcase for an afternoon. London Bridge is the obvious one if your last morning is on the south bank. If you are moving between terminals with bags, our guide to getting from one London terminus to another has the quickest routes.
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What it costs, and the one station that charges less
Eight of the nine offices use an identical tariff. Prices are per item and per time band, and a partial band is charged as a full one, so a bag left for three hours and ten minutes falls into the 24-hour band.
| Length of stay | Eight stations | Victoria rail station |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 3 hours | £10.00 | £10.00 (up to 6 hours) |
| Up to 24 hours | £15.00 | £15.00 |
| Up to 48 hours | £27.50 | £25.00 |
| Up to 72 hours | £40.00 | £35.00 |
| Each day after 72 hours | £12.50 | £10.00 |
| Each day after 7 days | £10.00 | - |
Victoria is the outlier in two ways. Its short band runs to six hours rather than three, and its longer stays are several pounds cheaper per day. If you have a full day to kill and one bag, that first row is the difference between £10.00 and £15.00.
Work it out for a family before you walk in. Two adults and two children on a last day, with four cases and a rucksack, left from 10:00 until an 18:00 train, is five items in the 24-hour band at a typical station: £75.00. At Victoria, where eight hours still crosses into the 24-hour band, it is the same £75.00. That is a real number, and it is more than many people expect. Prices were checked on the operator's booking site in September 2026 and should be confirmed on the day.
Victoria's coach station undercuts its railway station by a wide margin for short holds. TfL's own luggage room at Victoria Coach Station, about 300 metres away on Buckingham Palace Road, charges, per item, £2.00 for an hour or less, £5.00 for a hold of one to three hours, and £7.50 out to six hours. For a three-hour stop with two bags that is £10.00 against £20.00 at the rail station. See our guide to Victoria Coach Station for its opening hours, which are shorter on Thursdays.
The queue, the x-ray and how long to allow
These are not lockers. Every office is staffed, and every bag is security screened before it goes on a rack, under the same national rail security rules that apply to stations generally. You may be asked to take electrical items out, and you may be asked to open the bag for a hand search. Refusing means your bag is not accepted.
The operator says Saturday and Sunday are its busiest days and warns that queues are likely. Booking online in advance is free to do and gives you a priority lane, which is the single most useful thing in this article if you are dropping off at 10:00 on a Saturday at King's Cross. If you do not book, you pay when you collect, in cash or by card.
Allow twenty minutes at a big terminus on a weekend morning, and ten on a weekday. Then remember that you have to do the whole thing again in reverse before your train, at a counter that may have a queue of its own.
The small print that catches people out
Four rules in the operator's published terms are worth knowing before you hand anything over.
- Liability is capped at £200 per transaction. That is for the whole deposit, not per bag. Anything in your luggage worth more than that is effectively uninsured.
- Lose the ticket and it costs £15.00. You will also need identification and will have to describe the contents to the staff's satisfaction, and sign an indemnity. Photograph the ticket the moment you get it.
- Nobody else can collect your bag unless you physically hand them the original ticket. There is no way round this by phone or email.
- Very heavy or damaged bags may be refused. The terms exclude liability above the 32 kg safety weight and for bags that were already damaged.
Groups get a discount at 15 items or more, which is of no use to a family and quite useful to a tour party. Unused time is not refunded, so do not pay for 24 hours if you need six.
Storage apps: a third of the price, with different trade-offs
The alternative is a booking app that places your bag in a shop, café or hotel near the station rather than in the station. In September 2026 the main networks advertised London rates starting at roughly £1.50 to £4.00 per bag per day, with individual points near King's Cross, Paddington and Tottenham Court Road showing daily prices in the £3.50 to £4.50 range.
Against £15.00 for a station office, that is not half the price. It is closer to a quarter. The gap is large enough that it is worth ten minutes of comparison on any day when you have more than one bag.
Where the apps win
- Much lower daily prices, with the whole day covered rather than a three-hour band
- Cover advertised at up to £10,000 per booking, against the station's £200 limit
- Hundreds of points, so you can leave bags near your last sight rather than near your train
- Some partners are open 24 hours, which no station office is
Where the station office wins
- It is inside the station, which saves a walk at each end with a suitcase
- Staffed, screened and on a rack in a dedicated room, not behind a shop counter
- No smartphone, no data and no account needed; you can simply turn up
- The hours are the same every day and do not depend on one small business
If you use an app, check the individual partner's own opening hours rather than the brand's, confirm the exact street address, and read what the cover actually pays out for. A shop that closes at 18:00 on a Sunday is no help if your flight is at 21:00.
Matching the office to the way you are leaving London
Store your bags in the direction you are travelling, not behind you. The right office is usually the one at the station you will leave from.
- Flying from Heathrow: Paddington, for the Elizabeth line or Heathrow Express. Our comparison of the two Heathrow trains explains which is worth the fare, and every Heathrow option covers the rest.
- Flying from Gatwick: Victoria, where the rail office and TfL's cheaper coach-station room are a few minutes apart. See getting to and from Gatwick.
- Flying from Stansted: Liverpool Street, by platform 10, which is the same building the Stansted Express leaves from. See Stansted and central London.
- Eurostar: St Pancras itself. Allow for the check-in time on top of the collection queue; our guide to Eurostar to Paris has the arrival rules.
- A last day in the centre: Charing Cross, which puts you two minutes from Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery.
If you are still deciding which station serves where, our overview of London's main terminals sorts them by destination.
An early flight is a reason to store bags the night before, not the morning of. The offices open at 07:00. If you are leaving your hotel at 05:00 for a 08:00 flight, a station office cannot help you at all, and neither can most app partners. Plan around your hotel's own bag room instead; our guide to early check-in and hotel bag storage explains what to ask for when you book.
When a station office is the wrong answer
Three situations where you should not use one.
You are staying at a hotel near the station. Most London hotels hold bags for guests after check-out at no charge. Walking ten minutes back to reception beats paying £15.00 a bag. The extras that hotels do charge for are covered in our guide to hotel costs beyond the room rate.
Your bag is small enough to carry. A cabin case is genuinely manageable on most of the network if you pick your line and your hour. Our guide to luggage on the Tube names the stations where it stops being manageable, and avoiding the rush hour covers the times to avoid.
You want more than a few hours. Past 24 hours the station tariff climbs steeply, and an app or a hotel becomes clearly cheaper. The station offices are designed for the gap in a travel day, not for a week.
With your hands free: what a spare half-day is worth
The point of paying for storage is the afternoon you get back. From Charing Cross or Waterloo you are inside a twenty-minute walk of most of the centre. From London Bridge you are beside Borough Market, and from King's Cross you are ten minutes from the British Library and the canal.
If you are choosing how to spend it, our comparison of Camden Market and Borough Market decides between the two big market mornings, and our one-day itinerary works well for a final half-day if you cut it in half. Keep your passport, money and phone with you rather than in the bag, and read our page on what to do if a phone or wallet is taken before you need it.
Frequently asked questions
How much is left luggage at King's Cross station?
The published tariff in September 2026 was £10.00 per item for up to three hours and £15.00 per item for up to 24 hours, rising to £27.50 for 48 hours and £40.00 for 72 hours. Prices are per item and per time band, and a part-used band is charged in full, so confirm the current figures with the operator before you go.
Are London station left-luggage offices open at weekends?
Yes. All nine London offices are open Monday to Sunday, 07:00 to 23:00, according to the operator's own location listings in September 2026. Network Rail's station pages show only Monday to Friday hours, which is a gap in what that site publishes rather than a weekend closure. The operator says Saturday and Sunday are its busiest days.
Is there left luggage at St Pancras for Eurostar passengers?
Yes. There is a staffed office on the main concourse at St Pancras International, open daily from 07:00 to 23:00, so you do not need to walk across to King's Cross. Leave time for both the collection queue and Eurostar's own check-in before departure.
Which London station has the cheapest left luggage?
Among the railway offices, Victoria has the best tariff: its lowest band runs to six hours rather than three, and its 48-hour, 72-hour and per-day rates are lower than the other eight. For short holds of a few hours, TfL's luggage room at Victoria Coach Station nearby is cheaper still, starting at £2.00 per item for up to one hour.
Can someone else collect my luggage for me?
Only if you hand them the original paper ticket. The operator's terms say items cannot be released without the ticket issued at deposit, and a lost ticket costs £15.00 plus identification, a description of the contents and a signed indemnity. Photograph the ticket as soon as you receive it.
Sources
- Transport for London - Victoria Coach Station facilities (checked September 2026)
- Network Rail - London King's Cross: station facilities and services (checked September 2026)
- Network Rail - London Liverpool Street station (checked September 2026)
- Transport for London - Victoria Coach Station (checked September 2026)
- Eurostar - Check-in and arrival times (checked September 2026)