Elmstead Woods train station

You can reach 16 stations directly from Elmstead Woods on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Chislehurst, with 150 trains a day.

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• 16 direct destinations
• 576th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free in part
• 64 parking spaces
• 2 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Elmstead Woods

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

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Lines serving Elmstead Woods

Elmstead Woods is on the South Eastern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Elmstead Woods station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Elmstead Woods station on 84 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 17 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 7 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 21:00 to 22:00 on the Monday, with 4 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 Elmstead Woods station is

927,220 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 576th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Elmstead Woods and London Bridge than any other pair: 312,442 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

• Chislehurst 1.0 miles
• Sundridge Park 1.0 miles
• Bickley 1.2 miles
• Bromley North 1.3 miles
• Grove Park 1.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Eltham Park · 2.8 miles
• Elverson Road · 4.4 miles
• Blackheath Hill closed 1917 · 4.6 miles
• Deptford Bridge · 4.9 miles
• Greenwich Park · 4.9 miles

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Facilities at Elmstead Woods station

Elmstead Woods is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:30 · Saturday: 08:15 to 14:50 · Sunday: 08:15 to 15:40

Toilets

Parking at Elmstead Woods station

• Station Car Park 64 spaces, 3 accessible
  £7.90 off-peak, £8.70 a day, £38.00 a week

Cycle parking: 48 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 August 2026.

Getting to Elmstead Woods station

Elmstead Woods station is in Bromley, London, and is run by Southeastern.

The nearest motorway junction is M20 J1 (Swanley), 6.4 miles east.

2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Elmstead Woods.

Elmstead Woods is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Elmstead Woods 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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