Bath Spa train station

You can reach 89 stations directly from Bath Spa on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bristol Temple Meads, with 180 trains a day.

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• 89 direct destinations
• 77th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 78 parking spaces
• 32 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Bath Spa

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 51 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Bath Spa

Bath Spa is on the Great Western Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Bath Spa station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Bath Spa station on 207 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 36 paths on the Wednesday, 12 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 29 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Monday, with 7 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Bath Spa station is

6,510,506 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 77th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 206,808 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Bath Spa and London Paddington than any other pair: 1,369,168 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: 51 stations instead of 89, a drop of about 43%. Saturday runs to 91.

Changing from 24 March 2027

From 24 March 2027, Bath Spa gains 7 destinations including Eastleigh, Cam and Dursley, Ashchurch for Tewkesbury, Worcester Shrub Hill, Southampton Airport Parkway, Cheltenham Spa and loses 9 including Montpelier, Clifton Down, Severn Beach, St Andrews Road, Shirehampton, Redland.

Nearest other stations

• Oldfield Park 1.0 miles
• Freshford 3.5 miles
• Avoncliff 4.2 miles
• Bradford-on-Avon 5.0 miles
• Keynsham 6.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Bath Spa, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Westmoreland · 0.5 miles
• Westmoreland Street · 0.5 miles
• Bath Green Park · 0.5 miles
• Hampton Row Halt · 1.0 miles
• Weston (Bath) · 1.3 miles
• Twerton-on-Avon · 1.5 miles

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Facilities at Bath Spa station

Bath Spa is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 07:45 to 20:00

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Bath Spa station

• Station Car Park 78 spaces, 4 accessible

Cycle parking: 103 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 September 2026.

Getting to Bath Spa station

Bath Spa station is in Bath and North East Somerset, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J18 (Tormarton Interchange), 8.5 miles north.

32 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Dorchester Street.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Bath Spa 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