Grantham train station

You can reach 81 stations directly from Grantham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London King's Cross, with 101 trains a day.

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• 81 direct destinations
• 373rd busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 263 parking spaces
• 1 bus stop nearby

Direct trains from Grantham

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

and 41 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Grantham

Grantham is on the East Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Grantham station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Grantham station on 76 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 12 paths on the Wednesday, 16 paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 4 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 00:00 to 01:00 on the Saturday, with 7 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 Grantham station is

1,484,114 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 373rd busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 304,676 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Grantham and London Kings Cross than any other pair: 700,078 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: 54 stations instead of 81, a drop of about 33%. Saturday runs to 72.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Grantham gains 1 destination including Kirkcaldy.

Nearest other stations

• Bottesford 6.9 miles
• Ancaster 7.2 miles
• Elton and Orston 9.4 miles
• Rauceby 9.5 miles
• Aslockton 11.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Grantham Ambergate Yard · 0.4 miles
• Great Ponton · 3.3 miles
• Denton · 3.6 miles
• Barkston · 4.1 miles
• Sedgebrook · 4.1 miles

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Facilities at Grantham station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:35 to 16:00 · Saturday: 08:00 to 15:00 · Sunday: 09:00 to 15:00

Toilets

Parking at Grantham station

• Station Car Park 263 spaces, 17 accessible
  £2.50 an hour, £5.75 off-peak, £5.75 a day, £40.00 a week

Cycle parking: 63 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 14 August 2026.

Getting to Grantham station

Grantham station is in South Kesteven, East Midlands, and is run by London North Eastern Railway.

1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

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

Grantham 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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