Bury St Edmunds train station
You can reach 20 stations directly from Bury St Edmunds on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Ipswich, with 55 trains a day.
See Bury St Edmunds on the map
Bury St Edmunds is the nearest station for postcodes in IP32, IP33, IP29. Check your own postcode.
- 20 direct destinations
- 575th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 98 parking spaces
- 8 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Bury St Edmunds
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ipswich | 55 | 52 | 38 |
| Stowmarket | 55 | 52 | 38 |
| Elmswell | 40 | 36 | 28 |
| Needham Market | 40 | 36 | 28 |
| Thurston | 40 | 36 | 28 |
| Cambridge | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Newmarket | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Kennett | 29 | 25 | 16 |
| Dullingham | 26 | 24 | 17 |
| Ely | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| March | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Manea | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Soham | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Whittlesea | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Colchester | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Manningtree | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Harwich International | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Mistley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Wrabness | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds is on the Ipswich to Ely Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Bury St Edmunds station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Bury St Edmunds station on 608 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 118 paths on the Wednesday, 73 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 28 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 17:00 to 18:00 on the Tuesday, with 10 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 Bury St Edmunds station is
929,244 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 575th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 1,198 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket than any other pair: 139,928 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: 12 stations instead of 20, a drop of about 40%. Saturday runs to 16.
Nearest other stations
- Thurston 4.1 miles
- Elmswell 8.5 miles
- Kennett 9.5 miles
- Thetford 11.5 miles
- Stowmarket 13.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Bury St Edmunds, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Bury St Edmunds Eastgate · 0.6 miles
- Saxham and Risby · 3.2 miles
- Ingham · 3.5 miles
- Welnetham · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Bury St Edmunds station
Bury St Edmunds is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
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Parking at Bury St Edmunds station
- Station Car Park 98 spaces, 5 accessible
£4.80 a day, £17.75 a week
Cycle parking: 24 spaces (sheltered, compounds).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.
Getting to Bury St Edmunds station
Bury St Edmunds station is in West Suffolk, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Bury St Edmunds 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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