Etchingham train station

You can reach 21 stations directly from Etchingham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Battle, with 62 trains a day.

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• 21 direct destinations
• 1,371st busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 189 parking spaces
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Etchingham

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

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Lines serving Etchingham

Etchingham is on the Hastings Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Etchingham station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Etchingham station on 19 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 3 paths on the Wednesday, 4 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 11 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 12:00 to 13:00 on the Saturday, 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 Etchingham station is

209,228 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,371st busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Etchingham and London Bridge than any other pair: 71,606 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

• Robertsbridge 2.1 miles
• Stonegate 3.5 miles
• Wadhurst 7.1 miles
• Battle 7.1 miles
• Crowhurst 8.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Salehurst Halt · 2.6 miles
• Junction Road Halt · 3.8 miles
• Hawkhurst · 4.6 miles
• Mountfield Halt · 4.6 miles

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Facilities at Etchingham station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 12:55 · Saturday: 07:20 to 14:00 · Sunday: closed

Parking at Etchingham station

• Station Car Park A; Station Car Park B 189 spaces, 11 accessible
  £5.50 off-peak, £6.10 a day, £24.90 a week

Cycle parking: 40 spaces (sheltered, stands).

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

Getting to Etchingham station

Etchingham station is in Rother, South East, and is run by Southeastern.

The nearest motorway junction is M20 J8 (Hollingbourne), 18.9 miles north-east.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

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

Etchingham 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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