Bournemouth train station
You can reach 59 stations directly from Bournemouth on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Brockenhurst, with 137 trains a day.
Bournemouth is the nearest station for postcodes in BH1, BH2, BH3, BH8, BH9, BH22. Check your own postcode.
- 59 direct destinations
- 210th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free in part
- 414 parking spaces
- 18 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Bournemouth
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brockenhurst | 137 | 128 | 83 |
| Southampton Central | 139 | 127 | 83 |
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 113 | 111 | 81 |
| Winchester | 112 | 110 | 75 |
| Poole | 105 | 100 | 62 |
| Branksome | 83 | 74 | 35 |
| Parkstone | 83 | 74 | 35 |
| Christchurch | 74 | 69 | 32 |
| New Milton | 74 | 69 | 60 |
| Pokesdown | 72 | 69 | 32 |
| Basingstoke | 74 | 67 | 75 |
| London Waterloo | 67 | 67 | 51 |
| Dorchester South | 67 | 66 | 32 |
| Hamworthy | 67 | 66 | 32 |
| Weymouth | 67 | 66 | 32 |
| Wareham | 67 | 66 | 32 |
| Wool | 49 | 43 | 32 |
| Moreton | 45 | 42 | 32 |
| Hinton Admiral | 50 | 41 | 31 |
| Sway | 50 | 41 | 31 |
| Totton | 52 | 41 | 33 |
| Upwey | 43 | 41 | 32 |
| Woking | 38 | 39 | 51 |
| Ashurst New Forest | 45 | 38 | 32 |
| Clapham Junction | 33 | 36 | 51 |
| Holton Heath | 34 | 33 | 0 |
| Banbury | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Birmingham International | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Birmingham New Street | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Coventry | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Leamington Spa | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Oxford | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Reading | 29 | 29 | 23 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 26 | 26 | 20 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 25 | 26 | 19 |
| Stafford | 26 | 26 | 20 |
| Wolverhampton | 26 | 26 | 20 |
| Macclesfield | 24 | 25 | 19 |
| Stockport | 24 | 25 | 20 |
| Eastleigh | 22 | 22 | 32 |
and 21 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Bournemouth
Bournemouth is on the South West Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Bournemouth station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Bournemouth station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Bournemouth station is
2,664,456 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 210th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 71,883 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Bournemouth and London Waterloo than any other pair: 533,182 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: 46 stations instead of 59, a drop of about 22%. Saturday runs to 61.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Bournemouth gains 15 destinations including Dunbar, Alnmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Newcastle, Motherwell, York.
Nearest other stations
- Pokesdown 1.7 miles
- Branksome 2.4 miles
- Christchurch 3.6 miles
- Parkstone 3.7 miles
- Poole 5.3 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Bournemouth, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Bournemouth East original · 0.2 miles
- Meyrick Park Halt · 0.7 miles
- Boscombe · 1.1 miles
- Bournemouth West · 1.3 miles
- Hurn · 4.3 miles
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Facilities at Bournemouth station
Bournemouth is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:45 to 19:15 · Saturday: 06:15 to 18:00 · Sunday: 07:45 to 18:30
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Bournemouth station
- Bournemouth Main Car Park 362 spaces, 5 accessible
£1.00 an hour, £3.00 off-peak, £6.00 a day, £23.90 a week - Bournemouth Premium Car Park 52 spaces
£5.50 off-peak, £11.00 a day
Cycle parking: 118 spaces (sheltered, compounds).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.
Getting to Bournemouth station
Bournemouth station is in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, and is run by South Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M27 J1 (Cadnam), 17.6 miles north-east.
18 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Bournemouth Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Bournemouth 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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