Gatwick Airport train station
Gatwick Airport is a major interchange: 132 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is East Croydon, with 523 trains a day.
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Address: RH6 0RD
Gatwick Airport is the nearest station for postcodes in RH77. Check your own postcode.
- 132 direct destinations
- 21st busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 13 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Gatwick Airport
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Croydon | 523 | 500 | 384 |
| Three Bridges | 396 | 372 | 353 |
| Haywards Heath | 357 | 355 | 42 |
| London Blackfriars | 309 | 288 | 151 |
| St Pancras International | 309 | 288 | 151 |
| Farringdon | 289 | 278 | 145 |
| London Victoria | 285 | 150 | 283 |
| London Bridge | 279 | 407 | 161 |
| City Thameslink | 273 | 190 | 0 |
| Redhill | 238 | 214 | 126 |
| Burgess Hill | 225 | 211 | 40 |
| Brighton | 224 | 222 | 78 |
| Clapham Junction | 213 | 78 | 211 |
| Horley | 190 | 151 | 88 |
| Hassocks | 174 | 149 | 39 |
| Preston Park | 173 | 145 | 10 |
| Luton | 172 | 152 | 123 |
| Harpenden | 169 | 152 | 123 |
| St Albans City | 169 | 152 | 123 |
| Luton Airport Parkway | 165 | 152 | 123 |
| Bedford | 164 | 145 | 123 |
| Flitwick | 162 | 145 | 123 |
| Leagrave | 157 | 145 | 123 |
| Harlington | 153 | 145 | 123 |
| Wivelsfield | 149 | 148 | 9 |
| Crawley | 147 | 144 | 70 |
| Horsham | 147 | 144 | 107 |
| Finsbury Park | 137 | 136 | 28 |
| Hitchin | 137 | 135 | 28 |
| Stevenage | 137 | 136 | 28 |
| West Hampstead Thameslink | 100 | 89 | 123 |
| Purley | 98 | 85 | 90 |
| Earlswood | 91 | 71 | 36 |
| Salfords | 91 | 71 | 36 |
| Coulsdon South | 86 | 72 | 74 |
| Littlehaven | 84 | 75 | 37 |
| Merstham | 83 | 72 | 73 |
| Balcombe | 79 | 77 | 3 |
| Ifield | 79 | 75 | 37 |
| Arlesey | 73 | 71 | 0 |
and 92 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Gatwick Airport
Gatwick Airport is on the Brighton Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Gatwick Airport station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Gatwick Airport station on 169 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 36 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 3 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 11:00 to 12:00 on the Wednesday, with 9 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 Gatwick Airport station is
21,211,048 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 21st busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 1,156,551 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Gatwick Airport and London Victoria than any other pair: 5,455,484 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: 102 stations instead of 132, a drop of about 23%. Saturday runs to 126.
Nearest other stations
- Horley 0.8 miles
- Three Bridges 2.7 miles
- Salfords 3.1 miles
- Crawley 3.3 miles
- Ifield 3.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Gatwick Airport, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Rowfant · 3.6 miles
- Grange Road · 4.4 miles
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Facilities at Gatwick Airport station
Gatwick Airport is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: every day: 24 hours
Toilets · Waiting room
Parking at Gatwick Airport station
- Airport Car Park
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 August 2026.
Getting to Gatwick Airport station
Gatwick Airport station is in Crawley, South East, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Gatwick Express).
The nearest motorway junction is M23 J9A (Airport Way Roundabout East), 0.4 miles north-east.
13 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being South Terminal Coach Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Gatwick Airport 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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