Kettering train station

You can reach 25 stations directly from Kettering on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is St Pancras International, with 140 trains a day.

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• 25 direct destinations
• 485th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 430 parking spaces
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Kettering

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

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Lines serving Kettering

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

Freight through Kettering station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Kettering station on 699 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 132 paths on the Wednesday, 52 paths on the Saturday and 5 paths on the Sunday. 53 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 08:00 to 09:00 on the Wednesday, with 10 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 Kettering station is

1,136,558 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 485th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 431,919 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Kettering and London St Pancras International than any other pair: 472,914 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: 16 stations instead of 25, a drop of about 36%. Saturday runs to 16.

Nearest other stations

• Wellingborough 6.6 miles
• Corby 6.8 miles
• Market Harborough 9.6 miles
• Northampton 13.1 miles
• Long Buckby 16.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Isham and Burton Latimer · 2.5 miles
• Glendon and Rushton · 3.4 miles
• Finedon · 3.6 miles
• Cranford · 3.9 miles
• Geddington · 4.4 miles

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Facilities at Kettering station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:30 · Saturday: 06:00 to 20:30 · Sunday: 08:00 to 21:00

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Kettering station

• Station Car Park 430 spaces, 22 accessible
  £13.20 a day, £39.60 a week

Cycle parking: 160 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 August 2026.

Getting to Kettering station

Kettering station is in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J15A (Rothersthorpe), 15.5 miles south-west.

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

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

Kettering 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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