Great Ayton train station

You can reach 27 stations directly from Great Ayton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Battersby, with 11 trains a day.

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Great Ayton is the nearest station for postcodes in TS9, TS14. Check your own postcode.

27 direct destinations
2,343rd busiest in Britain
Unstaffed
Step-free throughout
10 parking spaces

Direct trains from Great Ayton

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Battersby	11	11	8
Commondale	11	11	8
Castleton Moor	11	11	8
Danby	11	11	8
Egton	11	11	8
Glaisdale	11	11	8
Grosmont	11	11	8
Gypsy Lane	15	15	8
James Cook	15	15	8
Kildale	11	11	8
Lealholm	11	11	8
Middlesbrough	15	15	8
Marton	15	15	8
Nunthorpe	15	15	8
Ruswarp	11	11	8
Sleights	11	11	8
Whitby	11	11	8
Thornaby	6	6	5
Billingham	6	6	3
Heworth	6	6	3
Hartlepool	6	6	3
Horden	6	6	3
Newcastle	6	6	3
Seaham	6	6	3
Seaton Carew	6	6	3
Stockton	6	6	3
Sunderland	6	6	3
Allens West	0	0	2
Darlington	0	0	2
Dinsdale	0	0	2
Eaglescliffe	0	0	2

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Lines serving Great Ayton

Great Ayton is on the Esk Valley Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Great Ayton station, hour by hour

No freight is booked through or alongside Great Ayton station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.

How busy Great Ayton station is

13,508 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,343rd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Great Ayton and Whitby than any other pair: 5,436 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.