Hereford train station
You can reach 98 stations directly from Hereford on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Cardiff Central, with 58 trains a day.
Address: Station Approach, Hereford, HR1 1BB
Hereford is the nearest station for postcodes in HR1, HR4, HR2. Check your own postcode.
- 98 direct destinations
- 455th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 135 parking spaces
- 6 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Hereford
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiff Central | 58 | 57 | 31 |
| Newport | 58 | 57 | 31 |
| Abergavenny | 57 | 57 | 31 |
| Cwmbran | 57 | 57 | 31 |
| Ludlow | 56 | 54 | 29 |
| Shrewsbury | 56 | 54 | 29 |
| Leominster | 47 | 46 | 26 |
| Colwall | 42 | 40 | 25 |
| Great Malvern | 42 | 40 | 25 |
| Ledbury | 42 | 40 | 25 |
| Malvern Link | 42 | 40 | 25 |
| Worcester Foregate Street | 42 | 40 | 25 |
| Craven Arms | 41 | 42 | 17 |
| Church Stretton | 41 | 42 | 16 |
| Pontypool and New Inn | 40 | 40 | 24 |
| Crewe | 37 | 36 | 24 |
| Birmingham New Street | 31 | 30 | 16 |
| Droitwich Spa | 31 | 30 | 16 |
| Bromsgrove | 30 | 30 | 16 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 30 | 31 | 23 |
| Stockport | 30 | 31 | 22 |
| University | 30 | 30 | 16 |
| Wilmslow | 30 | 31 | 23 |
| Nantwich | 26 | 24 | 3 |
| Whitchurch | 22 | 20 | 3 |
| Chester | 20 | 18 | 5 |
| Wrexham General | 17 | 15 | 4 |
| Bangor | 16 | 15 | 4 |
| Colwyn Bay | 16 | 16 | 4 |
| Flint | 16 | 16 | 4 |
| Gobowen | 16 | 15 | 4 |
| Holyhead | 16 | 15 | 4 |
| Llandudno Junction | 16 | 16 | 4 |
| Prestatyn | 16 | 16 | 4 |
| Rhyl | 16 | 16 | 4 |
| Bridgend | 15 | 12 | 21 |
| Chirk | 15 | 15 | 4 |
| Neath | 15 | 12 | 21 |
| Port Talbot Parkway | 15 | 12 | 21 |
| Ruabon | 15 | 15 | 4 |
and 58 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Hereford
Hereford is on the Welsh Marches Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Hereford station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Hereford station on 158 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 29 paths on the Wednesday, 9 paths on the Saturday and 8 paths on the Sunday. 23 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 15:00 to 16:00 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Hereford station is
1,229,916 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 455th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 45,539 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Hereford and Leominster than any other pair: 165,596 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: 73 stations instead of 98, a drop of about 26%. Saturday runs to 77.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Hereford loses 2 destinations including Milford Haven, Johnston.
Nearest other stations
- Leominster 11.4 miles
- Ledbury 12.1 miles
- Colwall 15.0 miles
- Great Malvern 16.9 miles
- Malvern Link 17.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hereford, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Hereford Moorfields · 0.7 miles
- Hereford Barton · 0.8 miles
- Moreton-on-Lugg · 3.3 miles
- Withington · 3.3 miles
- Holme Lacy · 3.9 miles
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Facilities at Hereford station
Hereford is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 05:15 to 18:40 · Sunday: 09:15 to 18:40
Toilets
Parking at Hereford station
- Main Car Park 135 spaces, 11 accessible
Cycle parking: 50 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 6 September 2026.
Getting to Hereford station
Hereford station is in Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, and is run by TfW Rail.
The nearest motorway junction is M50 J4 (Traveller's Rest), 11.0 miles south-east.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hereford 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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