Carlton train station

You can reach 50 stations directly from Carlton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Lowdham, with 37 trains a day.

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• 50 direct destinations
• 2,029th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 20 parking spaces
• 10 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Carlton

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

and 10 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Carlton

Carlton is on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Carlton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Carlton station on 70 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 13 paths on the Wednesday, 3 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 16 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 Carlton station is

52,580 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,029th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Carlton and Nottingham than any other pair: 14,258 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: 30 stations instead of 50, a drop of about 40%. Saturday runs to 41.

Nearest other stations

• Netherfield 0.3 miles
• Burton Joyce 2.0 miles
• Radcliffe 2.1 miles
• Nottingham 3.0 miles
• Lowdham 4.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Gedling and Carlton · 0.7 miles
• Thorneywood · 1.8 miles
• Nottingham Racecourse · 1.8 miles
• St Ann's Well · 2.0 miles
• Sherwood · 2.7 miles
• Nottingham London Road · 2.8 miles

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Facilities at Carlton station

Carlton is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Carlton station

• Station Car Park 20 spaces

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 June 2026.

Getting to Carlton station

Carlton station is in Gedling, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J26 (Nuthall Interchange), 6.6 miles west.

10 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Kenrick Street.

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

Carlton 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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