Gainsborough Lea Road train station
You can reach 20 stations directly from Gainsborough Lea Road on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Darnall, with 33 trains a day.
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- 20 direct destinations
- 1,361st busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 12 parking spaces
- 2 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Gainsborough Lea Road
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darnall | 33 | 33 | 27 |
| Kiveton Bridge | 33 | 33 | 27 |
| Kiveton Park | 33 | 33 | 27 |
| Lincoln | 43 | 43 | 27 |
| Retford | 33 | 33 | 27 |
| Sheffield | 33 | 33 | 27 |
| Shireoaks | 33 | 33 | 27 |
| Saxilby | 43 | 43 | 27 |
| Woodhouse | 33 | 33 | 27 |
| Worksop | 33 | 33 | 27 |
| Berry Brow | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Brockholes | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Barnsley Interchange | 26 | 26 | 12 |
| Denby Dale | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Dodworth | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Honley | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Lockwood | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Meadowhall Interchange | 26 | 26 | 12 |
| Penistone | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Silkstone Common | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Shepley | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Stocksmoor | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Chapeltown | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Elsecar | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Wombwell | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Lines serving Gainsborough Lea Road
Gainsborough Lea Road is on the Sheffield to Lincoln Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Gainsborough Lea Road station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Gainsborough Lea Road station on 599 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 106 paths on the Wednesday, 89 paths on the Saturday and 9 paths on the Sunday. 70 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 10 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Gainsborough Lea Road station is
211,442 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,361st busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 96 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Gainsborough Lea Road and Lincoln than any other pair: 113,374 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
- Gainsborough Central 0.9 miles
- Retford 8.8 miles
- Saxilby 9.3 miles
- Kirton Lindsey 10.0 miles
- Althorpe 13.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Gainsborough Lea Road, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Lea · 2.2 miles
- Beckingham · 2.2 miles
- Sturton closed 1959 · 3.2 miles
- Walkeringham · 3.6 miles
- Misterton · 4.5 miles
- Blyton · 4.6 miles
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Facilities at Gainsborough Lea Road station
Gainsborough Lea Road is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at Gainsborough Lea Road station
- Station Car Park 12 spaces
From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 June 2026.
Getting to Gainsborough Lea Road station
Gainsborough Lea Road station is in West Lindsey, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J34 (Blyth Interchange), 12.0 miles west.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Gainsborough Lea Road 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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