Cheltenham Spa train station
Cheltenham Spa is a major interchange: 116 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Gloucester, with 134 trains a day.
Address: Queens Road, Cheltenham, GL51 8NP
Cheltenham Spa is the nearest station for postcodes in GL51, GL50, GL53, GL52. Check your own postcode.
- 116 direct destinations
- 239th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free in part
- 286 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Cheltenham Spa
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gloucester | 134 | 132 | 65 |
| Birmingham New Street | 92 | 88 | 50 |
| Bristol Parkway | 87 | 87 | 55 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 87 | 88 | 55 |
| Cardiff Central | 63 | 63 | 22 |
| Newport | 63 | 63 | 22 |
| Worcestershire Parkway | 58 | 56 | 10 |
| Derby | 57 | 59 | 34 |
| Chepstow | 54 | 54 | 12 |
| Tamworth | 46 | 47 | 24 |
| Lydney | 45 | 45 | 12 |
| Burton-on-Trent | 44 | 47 | 22 |
| Ashchurch for Tewkesbury | 42 | 40 | 13 |
| Caldicot | 37 | 37 | 12 |
| Kemble | 37 | 33 | 26 |
| Stonehouse | 37 | 33 | 26 |
| Stroud | 37 | 33 | 26 |
| Severn Tunnel Junction | 37 | 37 | 12 |
| Swindon | 37 | 33 | 26 |
| Exeter St Davids | 33 | 33 | 12 |
| Newton Abbot | 33 | 33 | 12 |
| Taunton | 33 | 33 | 12 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 33 | 33 | 12 |
| Worcester Shrub Hill | 33 | 32 | 13 |
| London Paddington | 32 | 25 | 2 |
| Reading | 32 | 25 | 2 |
| University | 31 | 30 | 10 |
| Chesterfield | 29 | 28 | 25 |
| Didcot Parkway | 29 | 23 | 2 |
| Filton Abbey Wood | 29 | 31 | 15 |
| Leeds | 29 | 28 | 25 |
| Sheffield | 29 | 28 | 25 |
| Wakefield Westgate | 29 | 28 | 24 |
| Cam and Dursley | 28 | 31 | 15 |
| Plymouth | 28 | 28 | 12 |
| Yate | 28 | 31 | 15 |
| Totnes | 27 | 28 | 12 |
| Beeston | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Long Eaton | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Nottingham | 26 | 26 | 9 |
and 76 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Cheltenham Spa
Cheltenham Spa is on the Cross Country Route. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Cheltenham Spa station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Cheltenham Spa station on 352 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 68 paths on the Wednesday, 21 paths on the Saturday and 11 paths on the Sunday. 50 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Tuesday, with 8 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
How busy Cheltenham Spa station is
2,418,292 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 239th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 276,080 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Cheltenham Spa and Bristol Temple Meads than any other pair: 357,010 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: 63 stations instead of 116, a drop of about 46%. Saturday runs to 98.
Changing from 24 March 2027
From 24 March 2027, Cheltenham Spa gains 8 destinations including Keynsham, Oldfield Park, Freshford, Avoncliff, Bradford-on-Avon, Dilton Marsh.
Nearest other stations
- Gloucester 6.3 miles
- Ashchurch for Tewkesbury 7.1 miles
- Stroud 11.7 miles
- Stonehouse 12.9 miles
- Evesham 15.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Cheltenham Spa, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road · 0.3 miles
- Cheltenham Spa St. James · 0.8 miles
- Cheltenham High Street Halt · 0.9 miles
- Cheltenham High Street · 0.9 miles
- Cheltenham Leckhampton · 1.4 miles
- Badgworth · 2.0 miles
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Facilities at Cheltenham Spa station
Cheltenham Spa is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:15 to 20:15 · Saturday: 06:15 to 19:15 · Sunday: 09:00 to 16:30
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Cheltenham Spa station
- Station Car Park 286 spaces, 17 accessible
Cycle parking: 134 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.
Getting to Cheltenham Spa station
Cheltenham Spa station is in Cheltenham, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J11 (Golden Valley Junction), 2.2 miles west.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Cheltenham Spa Rail Stn.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Cheltenham Spa 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