Cambridge North train station

You can reach 53 stations directly from Cambridge North on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Cambridge, with 176 trains a day.

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• 53 direct destinations
• 381st busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 428 parking spaces

Direct trains from Cambridge North

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

and 13 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Cambridge North

Cambridge North is on the Fen Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Cambridge North station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Cambridge North station on 25 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 5 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 2 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.

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 Cambridge North station is

1,459,946 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 381st busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 2,070 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Cambridge North and London Kings Cross than any other pair: 561,570 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.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Cambridge North gains 1 destination including Seven Sisters.

Nearest other stations

• Cambridge 2.3 miles
• Waterbeach 3.1 miles
• Cambridge South 3.7 miles
• Shelford 5.3 miles
• Whittlesford Parkway 8.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Cambridge North, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Chesterton · 0.2 miles
• Barnwell Junction · 0.7 miles
• Fen Ditton Halt · 0.7 miles
• Histon · 2.4 miles
• Quy · 2.5 miles
• Cherryhinton · 2.5 miles

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Facilities at Cambridge North station

Cambridge North is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Cambridge North station

• Station Car Park 428 spaces, 24 accessible
  £1.20 an hour, £9.00 off-peak, £13.00 a day, £52.00 a week

Cycle parking: 1,000 spaces (sheltered, compounds).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 6 September 2026.

Getting to Cambridge North station

Cambridge North station is in South Cambridgeshire, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.

The nearest motorway junction is M11 J13, 3.6 miles west.

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

Cambridge North 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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