Doncaster train station
Doncaster is a major interchange: 136 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is London King's Cross, with 144 trains a day.
Address: DN1 1PE
Doncaster is the nearest station for postcodes in DN1, DN4, DN2, DN11. Check your own postcode.
- 136 direct destinations
- 121st busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 549 parking spaces
- 24 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Doncaster
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| London King's Cross | 144 | 133 | 117 |
| Sheffield | 138 | 121 | 104 |
| Meadowhall Interchange | 114 | 113 | 89 |
| Leeds | 105 | 101 | 86 |
| Wakefield Westgate | 104 | 101 | 86 |
| Peterborough | 92 | 85 | 70 |
| Brough | 84 | 81 | 71 |
| Hull Paragon Interchange | 84 | 81 | 71 |
| Newark Northgate | 76 | 66 | 56 |
| York | 73 | 55 | 58 |
| Adwick | 71 | 70 | 30 |
| Bentley (South Yorkshire) | 71 | 70 | 30 |
| Goole | 67 | 67 | 60 |
| Grantham | 60 | 51 | 43 |
| Darlington | 53 | 39 | 40 |
| Hatfield & Stainforth | 53 | 53 | 32 |
| Newcastle | 53 | 39 | 40 |
| Kirk Sandall | 52 | 52 | 32 |
| Scunthorpe | 50 | 50 | 27 |
| Rotherham Central | 45 | 44 | 32 |
| Conisbrough | 43 | 43 | 32 |
| Mexborough | 43 | 43 | 32 |
| Swinton (South Yorkshire) | 43 | 43 | 32 |
| Stevenage | 40 | 35 | 32 |
| Fitzwilliam | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Outwood | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Retford | 37 | 41 | 35 |
| South Elmsall | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Sandal and Agbrigg | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Thorne North | 37 | 37 | 32 |
| Barnetby | 34 | 34 | 27 |
| Cleethorpes | 34 | 34 | 27 |
| Gilberdyke | 34 | 34 | 31 |
| Grimsby Town | 34 | 34 | 27 |
| Habrough | 34 | 34 | 27 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 34 | 34 | 28 |
| Stockport | 34 | 34 | 28 |
| Beverley | 33 | 33 | 27 |
| Birchwood | 33 | 33 | 26 |
| Cottingham | 33 | 33 | 27 |
and 96 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Doncaster
Doncaster is on the East Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Doncaster station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Doncaster station on 713 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 130 paths on the Wednesday, 75 paths on the Saturday and 13 paths on the Sunday. 115 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 20:00 to 21:00 on the Monday, with 14 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 Doncaster station is
4,533,514 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 121st busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 1,673,640 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Doncaster and London Kings Cross than any other pair: 1,049,888 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: 97 stations instead of 136, a drop of about 29%. Saturday runs to 121.
Nearest other stations
- Bentley (South Yorkshire) 1.6 miles
- Adwick 3.8 miles
- Kirk Sandall 3.9 miles
- Conisbrough 4.5 miles
- Mexborough 6.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Doncaster, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Doncaster (St. James' Bridge) · 0.3 miles
- Doncaster (Cherry Tree Lane) · 0.4 miles
- Doncaster (York Road) · 0.6 miles
- Hexthorpe railway platform · 0.9 miles
- Spike Island · 1.6 miles
- Arksey · 2.1 miles
Show closed stations on the map
Facilities at Doncaster station
Doncaster is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:45 to 20:00 · Saturday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 18:00
Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi
Parking at Doncaster station
- West Street Station Car Park 69 spaces
£2.50 an hour, £6.75 off-peak, £13.50 a day, £54.00 a week - MSCP Frenchgate Shopping Centre 480 spaces, 10 accessible
£1.50 an hour, £13.00 a day
Cycle parking: 62 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 7 August 2026.
Getting to Doncaster station
Doncaster station is in Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by London North Eastern Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J36 (Warmsworth Interchange), 2.0 miles south-west.
24 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Trafford Way/X2.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Doncaster 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