Bristol Temple Meads train station
Bristol Temple Meads is a major interchange: 168 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Bath Spa, with 181 trains a day.
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Address: Bristol, BS1 6QF
Bristol Temple Meads is the nearest station for postcodes in BS1, BS4. Check your own postcode.
- 168 direct destinations
- 44th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 374 parking spaces
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Bristol Temple Meads
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bath Spa | 181 | 172 | 79 |
| Filton Abbey Wood | 167 | 153 | 78 |
| Bristol Parkway | 132 | 97 | 69 |
| Taunton | 113 | 81 | 68 |
| Lawrence Hill | 111 | 100 | 28 |
| Stapleton Road | 111 | 100 | 28 |
| Exeter St Davids | 98 | 60 | 57 |
| Bradford-on-Avon | 97 | 90 | 42 |
| Trowbridge | 97 | 90 | 42 |
| Westbury | 97 | 90 | 42 |
| Weston-super-Mare | 89 | 88 | 59 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 87 | 4 | 13 |
| Yatton | 87 | 77 | 55 |
| London Paddington | 86 | 66 | 46 |
| Swindon | 86 | 81 | 33 |
| Nailsea and Backwell | 85 | 73 | 54 |
| Reading | 85 | 66 | 45 |
| Worle | 85 | 70 | 54 |
| Chippenham | 84 | 82 | 37 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 84 | 50 | 51 |
| Newton Abbot | 72 | 37 | 41 |
| Cardiff Central | 71 | 64 | 52 |
| Keynsham | 71 | 62 | 33 |
| Newport | 71 | 64 | 52 |
| Clifton Down | 70 | 70 | 28 |
| Montpelier | 70 | 70 | 28 |
| Redland | 70 | 70 | 28 |
| Avonmouth | 68 | 70 | 28 |
| Gloucester | 68 | 93 | 55 |
| Portway Park and Ride | 68 | 69 | 26 |
| Shirehampton | 68 | 70 | 28 |
| Sea Mills | 68 | 70 | 28 |
| Oldfield Park | 66 | 61 | 32 |
| Yate | 64 | 62 | 28 |
| Plymouth | 62 | 34 | 38 |
| Totnes | 59 | 33 | 38 |
| Birmingham New Street | 58 | 4 | 13 |
| Warminster | 58 | 55 | 26 |
| Severn Tunnel Junction | 55 | 45 | 30 |
| Weston Milton | 54 | 36 | 31 |
and 128 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Bristol Temple Meads
Bristol Temple Meads is on the Great Western Main Line and the Bristol to Taunton Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Bristol Temple Meads station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Bristol Temple Meads station on 75 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 14 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 13 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 19:00 to 20:00 on the Tuesday, with 3 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 Temple Meads station is
10,877,308 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 44th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 1,644,247 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington than any other pair: 1,451,712 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: 88 stations instead of 168, a drop of about 48%. Saturday runs to 95.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Bristol Temple Meads gains 37 destinations including Haverfordwest, Fishguard Harbour, Clarbeston Road, Clunderwen, Whitland, Carmarthen and loses 1 including Devonport.
Nearest other stations
- Bedminster 0.8 miles
- Lawrence Hill 1.0 miles
- Montpelier 1.4 miles
- Stapleton Road 1.4 miles
- Redland 1.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Bristol Temple Meads, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Bristol St Philip's · 0.4 miles
- Brislington · 1.5 miles
- St Anne's Park · 1.5 miles
- Clifton Bridge · 2.0 miles
- Ashton Gate · 2.0 miles
- Hotwells · 2.1 miles
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Facilities at Bristol Temple Meads station
Bristol Temple Meads is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:15 to 21:30 · Saturday: 06:15 to 21:30 · Sunday: 07:00 to 21:30
Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi
Parking at Bristol Temple Meads station
- Station Car Park 374 spaces
£14.30 a day, £100.10 a week
Cycle parking: 450 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 September 2026.
Getting to Bristol Temple Meads station
Bristol Temple Meads station is in Bristol, City of, South West, and is run by Network Rail.
The nearest motorway junction is M32 J3 (Lower Ashley Road), 1.0 miles north.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Temple Meads Stn.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Bristol Temple Meads 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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