Cambridge South train station

Cambridge South is a major interchange: 100 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Cambridge, with 353 trains a day.

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Cambridge South is the nearest station for postcodes in CB2. Check your own postcode.

100 direct destinations
Staffed full time
Step-free throughout

Direct trains from Cambridge South

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Cambridge	353	327	210
Cambridge North	158	173	115
Royston	154	122	74
Letchworth Garden City	152	122	74
Ely	137	135	69
London King's Cross	135	116	73
Hitchin	128	109	73
Baldock	126	110	73
Audley End	118	109	93
Stevenage	117	109	72
Finsbury Park	116	109	70
Whittlesford Parkway	115	108	93
Ashwell & Morden	101	81	73
Bishop's Stortford	90	76	58
London Liverpool Street	88	75	57
Tottenham Hale	88	75	57
Broxbourne	85	75	57
Waterbeach	81	74	33
Harlow Town	79	75	57
Sawbridgeworth	67	42	57
Cheshunt	65	64	57
London Blackfriars	64	64	28
Brighton	64	63	27
Burgess Hill	64	63	27
East Croydon	64	64	28
Gatwick Airport	64	64	28
Haywards Heath	64	63	27
London Bridge	64	64	0
St Pancras International	64	64	28
Stansted Airport	64	70	42
Three Bridges	64	64	27
Farringdon	64	64	28
City Thameslink	62	46	0
Foxton	60	41	39
Meldreth	60	41	39
Shepreth	60	41	39
Elsenham	57	41	30
Great Chesterford	57	41	33
Newport	57	41	30
Shelford	57	41	33

and 60 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Cambridge South

Cambridge South is on the Bethnal Green and King's Lynn Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Cambridge South station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Cambridge South station on 51 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 10 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 3 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 12:00 to 13:00 on the Monday, with 4 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 60 stations instead of 100, a drop of about 40%. Saturday runs to 83.

Nearest other stations

Cambridge 1.4 miles
Shelford 1.7 miles
Cambridge North 3.7 miles
Foxton 4.9 miles
Whittlesford Parkway 5.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

Cherryhinton · 2.2 miles
Barnwell Junction · 3.0 miles
Harston · 3.4 miles
Fen Ditton Halt · 3.4 miles
Chesterton · 3.5 miles
Lord's Bridge · 3.9 miles

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Facilities at Cambridge South station

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

Waiting room · WiFi

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

From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 August 2026.

Getting to Cambridge South station

The nearest motorway junction is M11 J11 (Westfield), 1.6 miles south-west.

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

Cambridge South 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