Hildenborough train station
You can reach 41 stations directly from Hildenborough on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Bridge, with 70 trains a day.
- 41 direct destinations
- 1,069th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 280 parking spaces
- 1 bus stop nearby
Direct trains from Hildenborough
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Bridge | 70 | 44 | 34 |
| Sevenoaks | 70 | 44 | 34 |
| Tonbridge | 70 | 44 | 34 |
| High Brooms | 62 | 44 | 33 |
| Orpington | 62 | 44 | 34 |
| Tunbridge Wells | 62 | 44 | 33 |
| Charing Cross | 61 | 44 | 34 |
| Waterloo East | 61 | 44 | 34 |
| Battle | 12 | 30 | 32 |
| Hastings | 12 | 30 | 32 |
| St Leonards Warrior Square | 12 | 30 | 32 |
| Wadhurst | 12 | 30 | 32 |
| London Cannon Street | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Chelsfield | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| Crowhurst | 7 | 16 | 19 |
| Etchingham | 7 | 16 | 19 |
| Frant | 7 | 16 | 19 |
| Robertsbridge | 7 | 16 | 19 |
| Stonegate | 7 | 16 | 19 |
| West St Leonards | 7 | 16 | 19 |
| Ashford International | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Headcorn | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Marden | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Paddock Wood | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Pluckley | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Staplehurst | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Dover Priory | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Folkestone Central | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Folkestone West | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Sandling | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Westenhanger | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Canterbury West | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Chilham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Chartham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dunton Green | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Minster | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| New Cross | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ramsgate | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sturry | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Thanet Parkway | 1 | 0 | 0 |
and 1 more station, each served less often.
Lines serving Hildenborough
Hildenborough is on the South Eastern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Hildenborough station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Hildenborough station on 259 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 44 paths on the Wednesday, 38 paths on the Saturday and 12 paths on the Sunday. 7 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 13:00 to 14:00 on the Thursday, with 7 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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 Hildenborough station is
352,930 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,069th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Hildenborough and London Bridge than any other pair: 149,542 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: 26 stations instead of 41, a drop of about 37%. Saturday runs to 20.
Nearest other stations
- Leigh 1.6 miles
- Tonbridge 2.4 miles
- Penshurst 2.7 miles
- Sevenoaks 4.7 miles
- High Brooms 5.0 miles
Facilities at Hildenborough station
Hildenborough is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 12:50 · Saturday: 07:10 to 13:50 · Sunday: closed
Toilets · Waiting room
Parking at Hildenborough station
- Station Car Park 280 spaces, 8 accessible
£7.90 off-peak, £8.70 a day, £38.00 a week
Cycle parking: 60 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 August 2026.
Getting to Hildenborough station
Hildenborough station is in Tonbridge and Malling, South East, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M25 J5 (Chevening), 6.2 miles north-west.
1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Hildenborough Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hildenborough 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