Haywards Heath train station

You can reach 82 stations directly from Haywards Heath on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Gatwick Airport, with 357 trains a day.

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• 82 direct destinations
• 138th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 1,069 parking spaces
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Haywards Heath

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

and 44 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Haywards Heath

Haywards Heath is on the Brighton Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Haywards Heath station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Haywards Heath station on 112 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 23 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 13 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 11:00 to 12:00 on the Monday, with 5 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 Haywards Heath station is

3,957,580 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 138th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 383,780 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Haywards Heath and London Victoria than any other pair: 892,728 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.

Nearest other stations

• Wivelsfield 2.9 miles
• Burgess Hill 3.7 miles
• Balcombe 3.8 miles
• Plumpton 5.6 miles
• Hassocks 5.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Ardingly · 2.1 miles
• Newick and Chailey · 4.9 miles

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Facilities at Haywards Heath station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:55 to 20:45 · Saturday: 05:55 to 20:45 · Sunday: 07:10 to 21:15

Toilets

Parking at Haywards Heath station

• Station Car Park 1,069 spaces, 12 accessible

Cycle parking: 312 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.

Getting to Haywards Heath station

Haywards Heath station is in Mid Sussex, South East, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).

The nearest motorway junction is M23 J11 (Pease Pottage), 6.8 miles north-west.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Market Square.

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

Haywards Heath 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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