Kempston Hardwick train station
You can reach 11 stations directly from Kempston Hardwick on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Aspley Guise, with 34 trains a day.
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Kempston Hardwick is the nearest station for postcodes in MK43. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Kempston Hardwick
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspley Guise | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Bedford | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Bletchley | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Bedford St Johns | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Bow Brickhill | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Fenny Stratford | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Lidlington | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Millbrook | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Ridgmont | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Stewartby | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Woburn Sands | 34 | 34 | 0 |
Lines serving Kempston Hardwick
Kempston Hardwick is on the Marston Vale Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Kempston Hardwick station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Kempston Hardwick station on 58 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 10 paths on the Wednesday, 6 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 19 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 10:00 to 11:00 on the Friday, with 3 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 Kempston Hardwick station is
9,782 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,370th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Kempston Hardwick and Bedford than any other pair: 3,480 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 Kempston Hardwick. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.
Nearest other stations
- Stewartby 1.7 miles
- Millbrook 2.9 miles
- Bedford St Johns 3.0 miles
- Bedford 3.2 miles
- Lidlington 4.2 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Kempston Hardwick, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Wixams · 0.8 miles
- Wootton Broadmead Halt · 0.8 miles
- Kempston and Elstow Halt · 1.8 miles
- Cardington · 4.0 miles
- Cardington Workmen's Platform · 4.2 miles
- Ampthill · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Kempston Hardwick station
Kempston Hardwick is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.
Getting to Kempston Hardwick station
Kempston Hardwick station is in Bedford, East of England, and is run by West Midlands Trains (London Northwestern Railway).
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J13 (Ridgmont Interchange), 6.1 miles south-west.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Kempston Hardwick 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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