Didcot Parkway train station

You can reach 89 stations directly from Didcot Parkway on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Reading, with 207 trains a day.

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• 89 direct destinations
• 190th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 2,895 parking spaces
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Didcot Parkway

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

and 49 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Didcot Parkway

Didcot Parkway is on the Great Western Main Line and the Didcot and Chester Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Didcot Parkway station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Didcot Parkway station on 653 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 125 paths on the Wednesday, 48 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 93 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 02:00 to 03:00 on the Friday, with 16 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 Didcot Parkway station is

2,884,000 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 190th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 669,914 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Didcot Parkway and London Paddington than any other pair: 1,272,238 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: 56 stations instead of 89, a drop of about 37%. Saturday runs to 85.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Didcot Parkway loses 3 destinations including Torquay, Torre, Paignton.

Nearest other stations

• Appleford 2.0 miles
• Culham 3.0 miles
• Cholsey 4.6 miles
• Radley 5.1 miles
• Goring & Streatley 7.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Upton and Blewbury · 2.4 miles
• Steventon · 3.3 miles
• Abingdon Junction · 4.3 miles
• Abingdon · 4.5 miles

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Facilities at Didcot Parkway station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:40 · Saturday: 06:30 to 19:40 · Sunday: 08:00 to 19:40

Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi

Parking at Didcot Parkway station

• Station Car Park 2,895 spaces, 40 accessible

Cycle parking: 682 spaces (sheltered, compounds).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 15 August 2026.

Getting to Didcot Parkway station

Didcot Parkway station is in South Oxfordshire, South East, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M40 J8A (Wheatley), 10.9 miles north-east.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Parkway Station.

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

Didcot Parkway 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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