Cambridge train station

Cambridge is a major interchange: 113 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Cambridge South, with 354 trains a day.

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• 113 direct destinations
• 46th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 333 parking spaces

Direct trains from Cambridge

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

and 73 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Cambridge

Cambridge 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 station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Cambridge station on 35 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 7 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 station is

10,597,572 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 46th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 579,281 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Cambridge and London Kings Cross than any other pair: 2,900,308 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: 64 stations instead of 113, a drop of about 43%. Saturday runs to 66.

Changing from 14 April 2027

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

Nearest other stations

• Cambridge South 1.4 miles
• Cambridge North 2.3 miles
• Shelford 3.1 miles
• Waterbeach 5.3 miles
• Foxton 6.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Barnwell Junction · 1.6 miles
• Cherryhinton · 1.7 miles
• Chesterton · 2.1 miles
• Fen Ditton Halt · 2.1 miles
• Histon · 3.5 miles
• Fulbourn · 3.9 miles

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Facilities at Cambridge station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:10 to 23:00 · Saturday: 05:10 to 23:00 · Sunday: 07:00 to 22:55

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Cambridge station

• Station Car Park 330 spaces, 23 accessible
  £17.50 off-peak, £17.50 a day, £70.00 a week
• Premium Bay 3 spaces

Cycle parking: 2,850 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 10 September 2026.

Getting to Cambridge station

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

The nearest motorway junction is M11 J12 (Haggis Farm Interchange), 2.7 miles west.

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

Cambridge 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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