Castle Cary train station
You can reach 66 stations directly from Castle Cary on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Westbury, with 48 trains a day.
Castle Cary is the nearest station for postcodes in BA7, BA4, TA11, BA6, BA5, BA16. Check your own postcode.
- 66 direct destinations
- 1,067th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 178 parking spaces
- 2 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Castle Cary
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westbury | 48 | 34 | 40 |
| Frome | 30 | 20 | 15 |
| Yeovil Pen Mill | 28 | 18 | 13 |
| Bruton | 27 | 18 | 15 |
| Taunton | 21 | 17 | 25 |
| London Paddington | 20 | 17 | 25 |
| Reading | 20 | 17 | 25 |
| Exeter St Davids | 19 | 17 | 24 |
| Dorchester West | 18 | 17 | 12 |
| Maiden Newton | 18 | 17 | 12 |
| Upwey | 18 | 17 | 11 |
| Weymouth | 18 | 17 | 12 |
| Yetminster | 18 | 17 | 12 |
| Bradford-on-Avon | 17 | 16 | 9 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 17 | 16 | 9 |
| Bath Spa | 17 | 16 | 9 |
| Chetnole | 17 | 16 | 12 |
| Keynsham | 17 | 16 | 9 |
| Oldfield Park | 17 | 16 | 9 |
| Thornford | 17 | 16 | 12 |
| Trowbridge | 17 | 16 | 13 |
| Newton Abbot | 16 | 13 | 23 |
| Bristol Parkway | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Filton Abbey Wood | 13 | 13 | 1 |
| Gloucester | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 13 | 9 | 18 |
| Yate | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Dawlish | 11 | 8 | 7 |
| Teignmouth | 11 | 8 | 7 |
| Plymouth | 10 | 9 | 19 |
| Swindon | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Freshford | 9 | 8 | 9 |
| Salisbury | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| Totnes | 9 | 8 | 19 |
| Warminster | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| Ivybridge | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| Pewsey | 8 | 15 | 6 |
| Hungerford | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| Newbury | 7 | 13 | 6 |
| Avoncliff | 6 | 5 | 9 |
and 26 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Castle Cary
Castle Cary is on the Reading to Taunton Line and the Heart of Wessex Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Castle Cary station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Castle Cary station on 27 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 5 paths on the Wednesday, 3 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 5 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 13:00 to 14:00 on the Tuesday, with 3 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 Castle Cary station is
354,740 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,067th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 84,303 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Castle Cary and London Paddington than any other pair: 194,250 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, Castle Cary gains 4 destinations including Tisbury, Templecombe, Gillingham, Sherborne and loses 1 including Swindon.
Nearest other stations
- Bruton 3.4 miles
- Templecombe 8.2 miles
- Sherborne 10.8 miles
- Yeovil Pen Mill 11.4 miles
- Gillingham 11.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Castle Cary, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Evercreech Junction · 1.9 miles
- Alford Halt · 2.1 miles
- Cole · 2.2 miles
- Evercreech New · 3.2 miles
- Pylle · 3.5 miles
- Sparkford · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Castle Cary station
Castle Cary is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:30 to 18:30 · Saturday: 07:30 to 16:30
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Castle Cary station
- Station Car Park 178 spaces, 5 accessible
Cycle parking: 8 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 August 2026.
Getting to Castle Cary station
Castle Cary station is in Somerset, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J24 (Huntworth Interchange), 20.3 miles west.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Castle Cary Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Castle Cary 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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