Grays train station

You can reach 24 stations directly from Grays on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Barking, with 351 trains a day.

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• 24 direct destinations
• 154th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 168 parking spaces
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Grays

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

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Lines serving Grays

Grays is on the Tilbury Loop Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Grays station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Grays station on 730 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 131 paths on the Wednesday, 88 paths on the Saturday and 15 paths on the Sunday. 59 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 Wednesday, with 13 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 Grays station is

3,585,722 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 154th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 105,963 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Grays and West Ham than any other pair: 839,378 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.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Grays loses 2 destinations including London Liverpool Street, Stratford.

Nearest other stations

• Chafford Hundred Lakeside 1.6 miles
• Tilbury Town 1.7 miles
• Swanscombe 1.9 miles
• Northfleet 2.1 miles
• Ebbsfleet International 2.3 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Tilbury Marine · 2.4 miles
• Tilbury Riverside · 2.5 miles
• Rosherville Halt · 2.8 miles
• Gravesend West · 2.9 miles
• Low Street · 3.5 miles
• Southfleet · 3.6 miles

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Facilities at Grays station

Grays is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:30 to 19:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 19:00 · Sunday: 08:15 to 18:00

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Grays station

• Station Car Park 168 spaces, 5 accessible
  £1.00 an hour, £8.40 a day, £33.00 a week

Cycle parking: 78 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 22 May 2026.

Getting to Grays station

Grays station is in Thurrock, East of England, and is run by c2c.

The nearest motorway junction is M25 J30 (Mardyke), 2.5 miles west.

8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Bus Station.

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

Grays 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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