Ely train station

Ely is a major interchange: 111 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Cambridge, with 157 trains a day.

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Address: Station Road, Ely, CB7 4BS

Ely is the nearest station for postcodes in CB6. Check your own postcode.

111 direct destinations
256th busiest in Britain
Staffed full time
Step-free throughout
135 parking spaces

Direct trains from Ely

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Cambridge	157	140	92
Cambridge South	137	135	65
Cambridge North	123	108	72
Waterbeach	84	74	36
Peterborough	78	76	51
London King's Cross	73	74	33
Norwich	66	64	55
Thetford	66	64	55
March	58	56	36
Downham Market	56	48	36
King's Lynn	56	48	35
Littleport	56	48	36
Watlington	56	48	35
Stansted Airport	52	61	33
Attleborough	44	42	40
Wymondham	43	42	40
Brandon	39	37	38
Melton Mowbray	36	34	20
Oakham	36	34	20
Stamford	36	34	20
Audley End	34	31	24
Birmingham New Street	34	32	20
Coleshill Parkway	34	32	20
Leicester	34	32	20
Nuneaton	34	32	20
Whittlesford Parkway	33	31	24
Nottingham	28	28	19
Royston	28	16	4
Grantham	26	26	19
Letchworth Garden City	26	16	4
Whittlesea	25	24	12
Alfreton	24	24	15
Chesterfield	24	24	15
Manea	24	20	12
Sheffield	24	24	15
Manchester Piccadilly	22	22	13
Stockport	22	22	13
Liverpool Lime Street	21	21	10
Liverpool South Parkway	21	21	10
Manchester Oxford Road	21	21	10

and 71 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Ely

Ely is on the Bethnal Green and King's Lynn Line and the Fen Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

How busy Ely station is

2,299,024 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 256th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 431,002 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Ely and Cambridge than any other pair: 1,106,130 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: 61 stations instead of 111, a drop of about 45%. Saturday runs to 87.

Nearest other stations

Soham 4.6 miles
Littleport 5.4 miles
Shippea Hill 6.7 miles
Manea 8.3 miles
Waterbeach 9.3 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

Chettisham · 2.6 miles
Stretham · 2.6 miles
Black Bank · 3.8 miles
Prickwillow · 3.9 miles
Wilburton · 4.1 miles

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Facilities at Ely station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 08:30 to 18:30

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Ely station

Station Car Park 131 spaces, 7 accessible
£1.20 an hour, £8.80 off-peak, £10.00 a day, £40.00 a week
Premium Bay 4 spaces

Cycle parking: 330 spaces (sheltered, compounds).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 31 July 2026.

Getting to Ely station

Ely station is in East Cambridgeshire, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.

The nearest motorway junction is M11 J31 (Girton), 13.6 miles south-west.

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

Ely 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