Dorchester South train station
You can reach 37 stations directly from Dorchester South on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bournemouth, with 67 trains a day.
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Address: DT1 1QX
- 37 direct destinations
- 902nd busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 47 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Dorchester South
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bournemouth | 67 | 66 | 32 |
| Hamworthy | 67 | 66 | 32 |
| Poole | 67 | 66 | 32 |
| Weymouth | 67 | 66 | 32 |
| Wareham | 67 | 66 | 32 |
| Southampton Central | 62 | 63 | 30 |
| Brockenhurst | 58 | 64 | 30 |
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 56 | 60 | 28 |
| Winchester | 56 | 59 | 28 |
| London Waterloo | 55 | 59 | 28 |
| Wool | 49 | 43 | 32 |
| Branksome | 47 | 40 | 32 |
| Parkstone | 47 | 40 | 32 |
| Moreton | 45 | 42 | 32 |
| Upwey | 43 | 41 | 32 |
| Holton Heath | 34 | 33 | 0 |
| Basingstoke | 32 | 31 | 28 |
| Woking | 32 | 34 | 28 |
| Christchurch | 27 | 35 | 17 |
| New Milton | 27 | 35 | 30 |
| Pokesdown | 27 | 35 | 17 |
| Clapham Junction | 25 | 30 | 28 |
| Hinton Admiral | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| Sway | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| Totton | 8 | 8 | 3 |
| Ashurst New Forest | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Eastleigh | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| Shawford | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Fleet | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Farnborough (Main) | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Beaulieu Road | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Brookwood | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hook | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Micheldever | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Surbiton | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Wimbledon | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Winchfield | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Dorchester South
Dorchester South is on the South West Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Dorchester South station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Dorchester South 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 Dorchester South station is
466,422 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 902nd busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 562 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Dorchester South and Weymouth than any other pair: 95,622 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.
Nearest other stations
- Dorchester West 0.3 miles
- Upwey 4.4 miles
- Moreton 5.4 miles
- Weymouth 6.5 miles
- Maiden Newton 7.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Dorchester South, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Monkton and Came Halt · 1.2 miles
- Bradford Peverell & Stratton Halt · 3.2 miles
- Upwey Wishing Well Halt · 3.3 miles
- Grimstone and Frampton · 4.2 miles
- Upwey railway station (Abbotsbury Railway) · 4.3 miles
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Facilities at Dorchester South station
Dorchester South is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:50 to 18:15 · Saturday: 06:45 to 17:00 · Sunday: 08:45 to 16:00
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Dorchester South station
- Dorchester South Car Park 47 spaces, 2 accessible
£1.00 an hour, £2.50 off-peak, £5.00 a day, £19.90 a week
Cycle parking: 22 spaces (lockers).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 September 2026.
Getting to Dorchester South station
Dorchester South station is in Dorset, South West, and is run by South Western Railway.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being South Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Dorchester South 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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