Basingstoke train station
Basingstoke is a major interchange: 106 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is London Waterloo, with 204 trains a day.
Basingstoke is the nearest station for postcodes in RG21, RG24, RG22, RG23, RG25. Check your own postcode.
- 106 direct destinations
- 110th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free in part
- 1,227 parking spaces
- 8 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Basingstoke
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Waterloo | 204 | 209 | 172 |
| Woking | 150 | 159 | 149 |
| Winchester | 121 | 111 | 104 |
| Clapham Junction | 115 | 131 | 172 |
| Reading | 111 | 105 | 71 |
| Farnborough (Main) | 101 | 106 | 72 |
| Fleet | 100 | 106 | 56 |
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 85 | 78 | 79 |
| Southampton Central | 85 | 78 | 79 |
| Bramley | 76 | 73 | 28 |
| Mortimer | 76 | 73 | 28 |
| Reading Green Park | 76 | 73 | 28 |
| Reading West | 75 | 73 | 28 |
| Bournemouth | 74 | 67 | 75 |
| Brockenhurst | 70 | 67 | 75 |
| Hook | 68 | 74 | 35 |
| Andover | 67 | 66 | 66 |
| Salisbury | 67 | 66 | 29 |
| Winchfield | 61 | 59 | 35 |
| Brookwood | 60 | 58 | 52 |
| Surbiton | 58 | 74 | 52 |
| Weybridge | 55 | 70 | 18 |
| Walton-on-Thames | 53 | 70 | 18 |
| Eastleigh | 52 | 48 | 50 |
| Grateley | 47 | 39 | 27 |
| Overton | 47 | 39 | 63 |
| Whitchurch | 47 | 39 | 63 |
| Micheldever | 39 | 38 | 34 |
| Poole | 39 | 38 | 52 |
| Botley | 36 | 33 | 23 |
| Cosham | 36 | 33 | 23 |
| Fareham | 36 | 33 | 23 |
| Fratton | 36 | 33 | 23 |
| Hedge End | 36 | 33 | 23 |
| Portchester | 36 | 33 | 23 |
| Hilsea | 35 | 33 | 22 |
| Portsmouth Harbour | 35 | 33 | 23 |
| Portsmouth and Southsea | 35 | 33 | 23 |
| Christchurch | 34 | 36 | 24 |
| New Milton | 34 | 36 | 52 |
and 66 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Basingstoke
Basingstoke is on the South West Main Line and the Reading to Basingstoke Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Basingstoke station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Basingstoke station on 606 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 114 paths on the Wednesday, 67 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 72 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 00:00 to 01:00 on the Tuesday, with 10 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 Basingstoke station is
4,793,820 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 110th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 829,653 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Basingstoke and London Waterloo than any other pair: 1,626,552 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: 78 stations instead of 106, a drop of about 26%. Saturday runs to 99.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Basingstoke gains 10 destinations including Dunbar, Alnmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Motherwell, Glasgow Central, Haymarket.
Nearest other stations
- Bramley 4.4 miles
- Hook 5.6 miles
- Overton 7.5 miles
- Mortimer 7.5 miles
- Winchfield 7.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Basingstoke, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Cliddesden · 2.2 miles
- Oakley (Hampshire) · 4.4 miles
- Herriard · 4.8 miles
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Facilities at Basingstoke station
Basingstoke is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 21:30 · Saturday: 06:00 to 21:30 · Sunday: 07:00 to 21:30
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Basingstoke station
- Basingstoke Bunnian Place and North Yard Multi-Storey Car Parks 1,207 spaces, 18 accessible
£1.80 an hour, £5.50 off-peak, £11.00 a day, £43.80 a week - Basingstoke Premium Car Park 20 spaces, 10 accessible
£7.00 off-peak, £14.00 a day
Cycle parking: 170 spaces (sheltered, compounds).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 September 2026.
Getting to Basingstoke station
Basingstoke station is in Basingstoke and Deane, South East, and is run by South Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M3 J6 (Black Dam Roundabout), 1.2 miles south-east.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being The Malls.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Basingstoke 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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