Great Coates train station
You can reach 28 stations directly from Great Coates on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Grimsby Town, with 17 trains a day.
Great Coates is the nearest station for postcodes in DN37. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Great Coates
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grimsby Town | 17 | 16 | 0 |
| Habrough | 17 | 16 | 0 |
| Healing | 17 | 16 | 0 |
| Stallingborough | 17 | 16 | 0 |
| Barton-on-Humber | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Barrow Haven | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Cleethorpes | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Goxhill | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| New Holland | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Thornton Abbey | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Ulceby | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Grimsby Docks | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| New Clee | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Bleasby | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Barnetby | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Burton Joyce | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Collingham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Carlton | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Fiskerton | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hykeham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Lincoln | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Lowdham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Market Rasen | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Newark Castle | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nottingham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rolleston | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Swinderby | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Thurgarton | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Freight through Great Coates station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Great Coates 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 Coates station is
6,340 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,422nd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Great Coates and Cleethorpes than any other pair: 2,286 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
There is no Sunday service from Great Coates. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.
Nearest other stations
- Healing 1.3 miles
- Grimsby Town 2.0 miles
- Grimsby Docks 2.2 miles
- Stallingborough 2.3 miles
- New Clee 2.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Great Coates, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Great Coates Level Crossing electric · 0.6 miles
- No. 4 Passing Place electric · 0.8 miles
- Pyewipe Depot electric · 0.9 miles
- Cleveland Bridge electric · 1.0 miles
- Cleveland Street electric · 1.1 miles
- No. 5 Passing Place electric · 1.1 miles
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Facilities at Great Coates station
Great Coates is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Cycle parking: 2 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.
Getting to Great Coates station
Great Coates station is in North East Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by East Midlands Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M180 J5 (Barnetby Top), 11.4 miles west.
1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Bylands Grove.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Great Coates 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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