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You left out the 58-letter national rail station name.
King's Cross St Pancras is not a national rail station but an Underground station. There are two national rail stations - (London) King's Cross and (London) St Pancras International.
Surely Kings Cross St Pancras isn't a National Rail station? It's an underground station or two separate National Rail stations.

(oh no, I'm turning into one of those pedants)
King's Cross St Pancras... removed.

...in which case I don't think there are any 19-letter National Rail stations in London.
There are if you use ones in the London Overground list
I think, officially (although there is far less consistency about such things than in BR days), there is a 33-letter National Rail station name: Rhoose Cardiff International Airport http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/RIA.aspx
Back in the day, when the Waterloo & City Line was part of the Southern Region, Bank (or City, as it was originally called) was a four-letter London National Rail station. Iver is a near miss.

The stations at Heathrow Airport to be served by Crossrail are currently called Heathrow Terminal 1,2,3 and Heathrow Terminal 5 (according to the National Rail timetable) - 19 and 17 letters respectively. If the former is Heathrow Terminals 1, 2 & 3 (as Heathrow Express's publicity has it) that's 21 characters (excluding commas)
National Rail lists St James Street as St James Street (Walthamstow) which would be 24 letters in London, though Tfl seems to omit the last bit
In the Crossrail list I've replaced Heathrow Airport by Liverpool Street, to reduce the ambiguity, and added Heathrow Terminal 4 for 17.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Okay so the National Rail website lists it as Llanfairpwll, but I'll make any excuse to get to write
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch just for fun :)
The DLR Custom House is gradually morphing into Custom House for Excel (West)
You'd get slightly different results, obviously, if you included spaces in the counts. Which might be a kind of logical thing to do, as it would match up with the amount of space used by the station name on a destination display, or in-train information display.

(That is provided the display uses a monopitch font; otherwise you're into a whole new game, where the shortest National Rail station name would probably be IBM).
The 298 bus goes to Potters Bar Cranbourne Road Industrial Estate.
Leytonstone High Road for a 19 letter National Rail in London?

dg writes: I'm trying to avoid Overground stations in that list (ditto Harringay Green Lanes)
If we were to include abandoned underground stations, how about the king of letters; Osterley Park and Spring Grove for 26.
@anon
"Potters Bar Cranbourne Road Industrial Estate"
Do they need specially wide buses to fit that on the destination blind?

Reminds me of the suggestion that the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway changed its name to the North London Railway because the initials E&WID&BJR didn't fit on its diminutive locomotives.
Every National Rail station with a three letter name has the same CRS code as its name.
If closed stations count, some names to be listed might be even longer. It's dodgy because formal names and the identities on the station (or even the differences between the name over its front door and the platforms) might differ significantly.

The Underground and predecessors also went in for longer names - 'West Ruislip [for Ickenham]' comes to my mind, then 'Northwick Park [for...' or do qualifying descriptions not count?
Prestwick International Airport (29)

dg writes: now Glasgow Prestwick Airport (23)
Does "New X" count as a four-letter Overground station?
If counting old names- Charing Cross (Embankment) for 22 (24 if counting parentheses)
James Cook University Hospital (28)

If you consider 'Station' to officially be part of the name, then it's also a 33!

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