Craven Arms train station

Craven Arms is a major interchange: 103 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Church Stretton, with 53 trains a day.

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• 103 direct destinations
• 1,756th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 20 parking spaces

Direct trains from Craven Arms

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

and 63 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Craven Arms

Craven Arms is on the Welsh Marches Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Craven Arms station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Craven Arms station on 126 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 24 paths on the Wednesday, 8 paths on the Saturday and 6 paths on the Sunday. 18 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 01:00 to 02:00 on the Tuesday, with 7 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 Craven Arms station is

99,908 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,756th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 1,368 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Craven Arms and Shrewsbury than any other pair: 26,346 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: 61 stations instead of 103, a drop of about 41%. Saturday runs to 85.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Craven Arms loses 2 destinations including Milford Haven, Johnston.

Nearest other stations

• Broome 2.4 miles
• Hopton Heath 4.7 miles
• Church Stretton 6.7 miles
• Ludlow 7.1 miles
• Bucknell 7.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Stretford Bridge Junction Halt · 0.9 miles
• Wistanstow Halt closed 1956 · 1.5 miles
• Horderley · 2.7 miles
• Onibury · 2.8 miles
• Plowden · 4.2 miles
• Marshbrook · 4.2 miles

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Facilities at Craven Arms station

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

Parking at Craven Arms station

• Station Car Park 20 spaces
  free

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 November 2025.

Getting to Craven Arms station

Craven Arms station is in Shropshire, West Midlands, and is run by TfW Rail.

The nearest motorway junction is M54 J7, 21.1 miles north-east.

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

Craven Arms 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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