Crawley train station

You can reach 65 stations directly from Crawley on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Horsham, with 150 trains a day.

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65 direct destinations
409th busiest in Britain
Staffed part time
Step-free throughout
99 parking spaces
15 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Crawley

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Horsham	150	144	71
Three Bridges	150	144	71
East Croydon	148	142	70
Gatwick Airport	147	144	70
Littlehaven	87	75	38
Ifield	80	75	38
Horley	75	73	35
London Bridge	75	71	33
Redhill	75	73	70
London Blackfriars	74	72	27
St Pancras International	74	72	27
Farringdon	74	72	27
Arlesey	72	71	0
Biggleswade	72	71	0
Finsbury Park	72	72	0
Hitchin	72	71	0
Huntingdon	72	71	0
Peterborough	72	71	0
Sandy	72	71	0
St Neots	72	71	0
Stevenage	72	72	0
Barnham	71	68	31
Clapham Junction	71	70	37
London Victoria	71	70	37
Coulsdon South	70	68	36
City Thameslink	69	48	0
Merstham	68	68	35
Arundel	42	36	31
Billingshurst	42	36	31
Christ's Hospital	42	36	31
Pulborough	42	36	31
Amberley	40	36	31
Ford	39	36	31
Bognor Regis	36	31	17
Chichester	35	36	14
Havant	33	35	14
Emsworth	32	35	14
Fratton	32	34	14
Portsmouth and Southsea	32	34	14
Southbourne	32	35	14

and 25 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Crawley

Crawley is on the Arun Valley Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Crawley station, hour by hour

No freight is booked through or alongside Crawley station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.

How busy Crawley station is

1,370,856 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 409th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 2,404 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Crawley and Horsham than any other pair: 238,186 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: 45 stations instead of 65, a drop of about 31%. Saturday runs to 51.

Nearest other stations

Three Bridges 1.2 miles
Ifield 1.2 miles
Gatwick Airport 3.3 miles
Faygate 3.5 miles
Horley 4.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

Rowfant · 3.3 miles
Roffey Road Halt · 4.6 miles
North Horsham · 4.7 miles
Grange Road · 4.8 miles

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Facilities at Crawley station

Crawley is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 20:20 · Saturday: 06:10 to 20:20 · Sunday: 08:40 to 18:20

Toilets

Parking at Crawley station

Station Car Park 99 spaces, 2 accessible

Cycle parking: 60 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.

Getting to Crawley station

Crawley station is in Crawley, South East, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).

The nearest motorway junction is M23 J11 (Pease Pottage), 1.6 miles south.

15 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Station Way.

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

Crawley 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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