Brandon train station

You can reach 30 stations directly from Brandon on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Attleborough, with 40 trains a day.

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• 30 direct destinations
• 1,627th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 31 parking spaces
• 3 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Brandon

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

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Lines serving Brandon

Brandon is on the Breckland Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Brandon station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Brandon station on 85 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 18 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 9 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 06:00 to 07:00 on the Tuesday, with 5 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.

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

How busy Brandon station is

128,812 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,627th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Brandon and Cambridge than any other pair: 28,782 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

There is no Sunday service from Brandon. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.

Nearest other stations

• Lakenheath 3.8 miles
• Thetford 5.6 miles
• Shippea Hill 9.1 miles
• Harling Road 12.0 miles
• Littleport 13.0 miles

Facilities at Brandon station

Brandon is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Brandon station

• Brandon Station Car Park 31 spaces, 2 accessible
  £3.00 a day

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 July 2026.

Getting to Brandon station

Brandon station is in Breckland, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.

3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

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

Brandon 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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