Clifton Down train station

You can reach 32 stations directly from Clifton Down on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bristol Temple Meads, with 70 trains a day.

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• 32 direct destinations
• 637th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 15 parking spaces
• 2 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Clifton Down

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

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Lines serving Clifton Down

Clifton Down is on the Severn Beach Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Clifton Down station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Clifton Down station on 6 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 1 path on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. All of them run whatever the traffic.

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 Clifton Down station is

817,690 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 637th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Clifton Down and Bristol Temple Meads than any other pair: 277,748 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: 22 stations instead of 32, a drop of about 31%. Saturday runs to 30.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Clifton Down loses 11 destinations including Trowbridge, Keynsham, Oldfield Park, Freshford, Avoncliff, Bradford-on-Avon.

Nearest other stations

• Redland 0.6 miles
• Montpelier 1.0 miles
• Bristol Temple Meads 1.7 miles
• Ashley Down 1.8 miles
• Bedminster 1.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Hotwells Halt · 0.8 miles
• Hotwells · 0.9 miles
• Nightingale Valley Halt · 1.0 miles
• Clifton Bridge · 1.4 miles
• Bristol St Philip's · 1.6 miles
• Ashton Gate · 1.7 miles

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Facilities at Clifton Down station

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

Parking at Clifton Down station

• Station Car Park 15 spaces

Cycle parking: 32 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 February 2026.

Getting to Clifton Down station

Clifton Down station is in Bristol, City of, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M32 J3 (Lower Ashley Road), 1.4 miles east.

2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Clifton Down Station.

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

Clifton Down 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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