Banbury train station
You can reach 76 stations directly from Banbury on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Leamington Spa, with 112 trains a day.
Banbury is the nearest station for postcodes in OX16, OX17, OX15. Check your own postcode.
- 76 direct destinations
- 261st busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 978 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Banbury
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leamington Spa | 112 | 99 | 76 |
| Oxford | 77 | 69 | 39 |
| London Marylebone | 69 | 58 | 40 |
| Bicester North | 68 | 57 | 39 |
| Warwick | 63 | 51 | 37 |
| Birmingham Moor Street | 61 | 50 | 36 |
| Dorridge | 61 | 50 | 36 |
| Solihull | 61 | 50 | 36 |
| Warwick Parkway | 61 | 50 | 36 |
| Reading | 51 | 48 | 39 |
| Birmingham New Street | 49 | 48 | 39 |
| High Wycombe | 47 | 41 | 31 |
| King's Sutton | 45 | 35 | 14 |
| Haddenham and Thame Parkway | 44 | 56 | 39 |
| Birmingham International | 33 | 32 | 36 |
| Basingstoke | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Coventry | 33 | 32 | 36 |
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Southampton Central | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Winchester | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Stafford | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Wolverhampton | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 30 | 29 | 23 |
| Brockenhurst | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Bournemouth | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Macclesfield | 28 | 28 | 23 |
| Stockport | 28 | 28 | 24 |
| Birmingham Snow Hill | 26 | 1 | 4 |
| Heyford | 25 | 19 | 0 |
| Culham | 22 | 13 | 0 |
| Didcot Parkway | 22 | 14 | 0 |
| Radley | 22 | 13 | 0 |
| Derby | 16 | 17 | 5 |
| Doncaster | 15 | 3 | 5 |
| Sheffield | 15 | 15 | 5 |
| York | 15 | 3 | 5 |
| Princes Risborough | 13 | 15 | 29 |
| Tackley | 13 | 10 | 0 |
| Darlington | 11 | 2 | 2 |
and 36 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Banbury
Banbury is on the Chiltern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Banbury station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Banbury station on 589 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 111 paths on the Wednesday, 54 paths on the Saturday and 10 paths on the Sunday. 66 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 17:00 to 18:00 on the Tuesday, with 14 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 Banbury station is
2,269,872 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 261st busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 220,056 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Banbury and London Marylebone than any other pair: 615,822 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: 56 stations instead of 76, a drop of about 26%. Saturday runs to 65.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Banbury gains 9 destinations including Dunbar, Alnmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Motherwell, Glasgow Central, Haymarket.
Nearest other stations
- King's Sutton 3.4 miles
- Heyford 9.9 miles
- Tackley 12.4 miles
- Bicester North 13.2 miles
- Bicester Village 13.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Banbury, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Banbury Merton Street · 0.2 miles
- Chalcombe Road Halt · 3.0 miles
- Milton Halt · 3.3 miles
- Adderbury · 3.6 miles
- Cropredy · 3.6 miles
- Farthinghoe · 3.7 miles
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Facilities at Banbury station
Banbury is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:45 to 20:15 · Saturday: 06:35 to 19:15 · Sunday: 08:10 to 17:40
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Banbury station
- There are three car parks at Banbury Station: the Multi-Storey Car Park, the Main Car Park, and the Approach Road Car Park. Prices are the same at all three car parks. 978 spaces, 14 accessible
£6.80 off-peak, £9.70 a day, £38.80 a week
Cycle parking: 63 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.
Getting to Banbury station
Banbury station is in Cherwell, South East, and is run by Chiltern Railways.
The nearest motorway junction is M40 J11 (Banbury), 0.9 miles north-east.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Banbury Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Banbury 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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