Gloucester train station
Gloucester is a major interchange: 105 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Cheltenham Spa, with 133 trains a day.
Address: GL1 1DE
Gloucester is the nearest station for postcodes in GL1, GL4, GL2, GL3, GL19. Check your own postcode.
- 105 direct destinations
- 317th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 200 parking spaces
- 29 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Gloucester
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheltenham Spa | 133 | 4 | 0 |
| Bristol Parkway | 68 | 92 | 55 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 68 | 93 | 55 |
| Filton Abbey Wood | 65 | 62 | 28 |
| Cardiff Central | 64 | 34 | 16 |
| Newport | 64 | 34 | 16 |
| Yate | 64 | 62 | 28 |
| Chepstow | 55 | 34 | 16 |
| Lydney | 46 | 34 | 16 |
| Ashchurch for Tewkesbury | 42 | 3 | 0 |
| Swindon | 39 | 34 | 28 |
| Caldicot | 38 | 34 | 16 |
| Cam and Dursley | 38 | 36 | 28 |
| Kemble | 38 | 34 | 28 |
| Stonehouse | 38 | 34 | 28 |
| Stroud | 38 | 34 | 28 |
| Severn Tunnel Junction | 38 | 34 | 16 |
| Birmingham New Street | 36 | 1 | 0 |
| Worcester Shrub Hill | 33 | 3 | 0 |
| London Paddington | 32 | 25 | 2 |
| Reading | 32 | 25 | 2 |
| University | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Worcestershire Parkway | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Derby | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| Didcot Parkway | 29 | 23 | 2 |
| Tamworth | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| Burton-on-Trent | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| Beeston | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Long Eaton | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Nottingham | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Worcester Foregate Street | 24 | 2 | 0 |
| Bradford-on-Avon | 22 | 26 | 0 |
| Bath Spa | 22 | 27 | 0 |
| Keynsham | 22 | 26 | 0 |
| Oldfield Park | 22 | 26 | 0 |
| Trowbridge | 22 | 26 | 0 |
| Westbury | 22 | 26 | 0 |
| Frome | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Castle Cary | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Yeovil Pen Mill | 13 | 13 | 0 |
and 65 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Gloucester
Gloucester is on the Gloucester to Newport Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Gloucester station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Gloucester station on 246 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 50 paths on the Wednesday, 12 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 48 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Tuesday, with 6 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 Gloucester station is
1,763,556 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 317th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 153,970 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Gloucester and London Paddington than any other pair: 263,012 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: 36 stations instead of 105, a drop of about 66%. Saturday runs to 70.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Gloucester gains 8 destinations including Romsey, Melksham, Southampton Central, Motherwell, Salisbury, Glasgow Central.
Nearest other stations
- Cheltenham Spa 6.3 miles
- Stroud 8.4 miles
- Stonehouse 8.4 miles
- Ashchurch for Tewkesbury 10.8 miles
- Cam and Dursley 11.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Gloucester, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Gloucester Eastgate · 0.2 miles
- Gloucestershire Parkway · 1.9 miles
- Churchdown · 3.2 miles
- Badgworth · 4.3 miles
- Barbers Bridge · 4.6 miles
- Oakle Street · 5.0 miles
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Facilities at Gloucester station
Gloucester is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 19:00 · Sunday: 09:00 to 18:00
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Gloucester station
- Station Car Park 200 spaces
Cycle parking: 32 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 7 September 2026.
Getting to Gloucester station
Gloucester station is in Gloucester, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J11A (Brockworth Interchange), 2.6 miles east.
29 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Gloucester Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Gloucester 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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