Downham Market train station

You can reach 16 stations directly from Downham Market on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Cambridge, with 56 trains a day.

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• 16 direct destinations
• 929th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 113 parking spaces

Direct trains from Downham Market

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

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Lines serving Downham Market

Downham Market is on the Fen Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Downham Market station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Downham Market station on 43 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 7 paths on the Wednesday, 6 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 6 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 09:00 to 10:00 on the Monday, with 3 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 Downham Market station is

440,550 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 929th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Downham Market and Kings Lynn than any other pair: 126,002 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: 11 stations instead of 16, a drop of about 31%. Saturday runs to 0.

Nearest other stations

• Watlington 4.8 miles
• Littleport 10.0 miles
• King's Lynn 10.5 miles
• Manea 10.8 miles
• March 11.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Denver · 1.6 miles
• Ryston · 2.3 miles
• Stow Bardolph · 2.3 miles
• Ouse Bridge · 2.9 miles
• Holme · 3.7 miles
• Abbey and West Dereham · 4.0 miles

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Facilities at Downham Market station

Downham Market is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 17:10 · Saturday: 07:00 to 13:30 · Sunday: closed

Toilets

Parking at Downham Market station

• Station Car Park 113 spaces, 7 accessible

Cycle parking: 24 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 August 2026.

Getting to Downham Market station

Downham Market station is in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, East of England, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Great Northern).

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

Downham Market 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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