Highbridge and Burnham train station

You can reach 74 stations directly from Highbridge and Burnham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bristol Temple Meads, with 46 trains a day.

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• 74 direct destinations
• 1,256th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 20 parking spaces
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Highbridge and Burnham

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

and 34 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Highbridge and Burnham

Highbridge and Burnham is on the Bristol to Exeter Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Highbridge and Burnham station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Highbridge and Burnham station on 43 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 9 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.

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 Highbridge and Burnham station is

248,906 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,256th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Highbridge and Burnham and Bristol Temple Meads than any other pair: 53,136 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: 35 stations instead of 74, a drop of about 53%. Saturday runs to 53.

Nearest other stations

• Bridgwater 6.3 miles
• Weston-super-Mare 8.7 miles
• Weston Milton 9.1 miles
• Worle 10.0 miles
• Yatton 13.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Burnham-on-Sea · 1.5 miles
• Bason Bridge · 1.7 miles
• Brent Knoll · 2.8 miles
• Cossington · 4.5 miles
• Bawdrip Halt · 4.7 miles

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Facilities at Highbridge and Burnham station

Highbridge and Burnham is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Highbridge and Burnham station

• Station Car Park 20 spaces, 2 accessible

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 February 2026.

Getting to Highbridge and Burnham station

Highbridge and Burnham station is in Somerset, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M5 J22 (Edithmead Interchange), 1.5 miles north-east.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Highbridge Railway Station.

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

Highbridge and Burnham 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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