Bristol Parkway train station
Bristol Parkway is a major interchange: 129 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Bristol Temple Meads, with 132 trains a day.
See Bristol Parkway on the map
Address: Station Approach Road, Bristol, BS34 8PU
Bristol Parkway is the nearest station for postcodes in BS16, BS36. Check your own postcode.
- 129 direct destinations
- 250th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 1,140 parking spaces
- 8 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Bristol Parkway
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol Temple Meads | 132 | 97 | 69 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 87 | 4 | 13 |
| Filton Abbey Wood | 71 | 63 | 28 |
| Gloucester | 68 | 92 | 55 |
| Cardiff Central | 65 | 42 | 29 |
| Newport | 65 | 42 | 31 |
| London Paddington | 65 | 46 | 41 |
| Yate | 64 | 62 | 28 |
| Swindon | 63 | 46 | 41 |
| Reading | 62 | 46 | 41 |
| Birmingham New Street | 58 | 4 | 13 |
| Bridgend | 46 | 39 | 29 |
| Neath | 46 | 39 | 29 |
| Port Talbot Parkway | 46 | 39 | 29 |
| Swansea | 46 | 39 | 29 |
| Cam and Dursley | 38 | 36 | 28 |
| Exeter St Davids | 36 | 29 | 27 |
| Taunton | 36 | 30 | 27 |
| Newton Abbot | 35 | 29 | 27 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 35 | 29 | 27 |
| Plymouth | 30 | 28 | 24 |
| Ashchurch for Tewkesbury | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| Totnes | 29 | 28 | 24 |
| Derby | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| Worcestershire Parkway | 28 | 2 | 0 |
| Worcester Shrub Hill | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| Chesterfield | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| Leeds | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| Sheffield | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| Wakefield Westgate | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| Bath Spa | 26 | 26 | 1 |
| Bradford-on-Avon | 25 | 26 | 0 |
| Keynsham | 25 | 26 | 0 |
| Oldfield Park | 25 | 26 | 0 |
| Trowbridge | 25 | 26 | 0 |
| Westbury | 25 | 26 | 0 |
| York | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Darlington | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| Durham | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| Didcot Parkway | 23 | 16 | 19 |
and 89 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Bristol Parkway
Bristol Parkway is on the South Wales Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Bristol Parkway station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Bristol Parkway station on 429 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 80 paths on the Wednesday, 36 paths on the Saturday and 15 paths on the Sunday. 86 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 15:00 to 16:00 on the Tuesday, with 7 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 Bristol Parkway station is
2,325,558 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 250th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 875,145 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Bristol Parkway and London Paddington than any other pair: 763,594 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: 47 stations instead of 129, a drop of about 64%. Saturday runs to 70.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Bristol Parkway gains 12 destinations including Leuchars, Cupar, Ladybank, Markinch, Dundee, Aberdeen.
Nearest other stations
- Filton Abbey Wood 1.2 miles
- Patchway 1.2 miles
- Ashley Down 2.9 miles
- Stapleton Road 3.4 miles
- Montpelier 3.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Bristol Parkway, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- North Filton Platform · 1.3 miles
- Bristol Brabazon · 1.6 miles
- Horfield · 1.8 miles
- Winterbourne · 2.0 miles
- Charlton Halt · 2.3 miles
- Fishponds · 2.6 miles
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Facilities at Bristol Parkway station
Bristol Parkway is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 18:00 · Sunday: 08:30 to 19:00
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Bristol Parkway station
- Station Car Park 1,140 spaces
Cycle parking: 156 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 6 September 2026.
Getting to Bristol Parkway station
Bristol Parkway station is in South Gloucestershire, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M32 J1 (Frenchay), 0.9 miles south-east.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Bristol Parkway Stn.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Bristol Parkway 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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