Chelmsford train station

You can reach 37 stations directly from Chelmsford on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Liverpool Street, with 199 trains a day.

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• 37 direct destinations
• 68th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 144 parking spaces
• 21 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Chelmsford

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

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Lines serving Chelmsford

Chelmsford is on the Great Eastern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Chelmsford station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Chelmsford station on 374 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 64 paths on the Wednesday, 75 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 38 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 05:00 to 06:00 on the Tuesday, with 9 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Chelmsford station is

7,030,130 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 68th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 77,269 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Chelmsford and London Liverpool Street than any other pair: 3,039,232 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: 21 stations instead of 37, a drop of about 43%. Saturday runs to 29.

Nearest other stations

• Beaulieu Park 2.6 miles
• Ingatestone 6.0 miles
• Hatfield Peverel 6.1 miles
• Billericay 7.7 miles
• South Woodham Ferrers 8.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Beaulieu Park · 2.4 miles

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Facilities at Chelmsford station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:50 to 22:00 · Saturday: 05:50 to 22:00 · Sunday: 07:00 to 23:00

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Chelmsford station

• Station Car Park 137 spaces, 5 accessible
  £7.00 off-peak, £9.50 a day, £40.00 a week
• Premium Bay 7 spaces

Cycle parking: 960 spaces (sheltered, compounds).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 July 2026.

Getting to Chelmsford station

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

The nearest motorway junction is M25 J28 (Brook Street), 12.4 miles south-west.

21 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Chelmsford Railway Station.

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

Chelmsford 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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