Brading train station
You can reach 7 stations directly from Brading on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Lake, with 50 trains a day.
Brading is the nearest station for postcodes in PO35. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Brading
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake | 50 | 50 | 44 |
| Ryde St John's Road | 50 | 50 | 44 |
| Sandown | 50 | 50 | 44 |
| Shanklin | 50 | 50 | 44 |
| Ryde Esplanade | 48 | 48 | 42 |
| Ryde Pier Head | 48 | 48 | 42 |
| Smallbrook Junction | 22 | 22 | 22 |
Lines serving Brading
Brading is on the Island Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Brading station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Brading 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 Brading station is
17,080 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,307th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Brading and Shanklin than any other pair: 4,232 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.
Nearest other stations
- Sandown 1.8 miles
- Smallbrook Junction 2.4 miles
- Lake 2.5 miles
- Ryde St John's Road 3.3 miles
- Shanklin 3.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Brading, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- St Helens (Isle of Wight) · 1.6 miles
- Alverstone (Isle of Wight) · 2.1 miles
- Bembridge · 2.4 miles
- Newchurch (Isle of Wight) · 3.1 miles
- Horringford · 4.2 miles
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Facilities at Brading station
Brading is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at Brading station
- Brading Car Park 10 spaces, 1 accessible
free
From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 December 2025.
Getting to Brading station
Brading station is in Isle of Wight, South East, and is run by South Western Railway (Island Line).
The nearest motorway junction is M275 J2 (Rudmore), 9.3 miles north.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Brading 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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