Lake train station
You can reach 7 stations directly from Lake on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Brading, with 50 trains a day.
Direct trains from Lake
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brading | 50 | 50 | 44 |
| Ryde St John's Road | 50 | 50 | 44 |
| Sandown | 50 | 50 | 44 |
| Shanklin | 50 | 50 | 44 |
| Ryde Esplanade | 48 | 48 | 42 |
| Ryde Pier Head | 48 | 48 | 42 |
| Smallbrook Junction | 22 | 22 | 22 |
Lines serving Lake
Lake is on the Island Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Lake station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Lake station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Lake station is
19,744 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,281st busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Lake and Ryde Esplanade than any other pair: 8,094 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.
Nearest other stations
- Sandown 0.8 miles
- Shanklin 1.0 miles
- Brading 2.5 miles
- Smallbrook Junction 4.5 miles
- Ryde St John's Road 5.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Lake, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Alverstone (Isle of Wight) · 1.6 miles
- Newchurch (Isle of Wight) · 2.5 miles
- Horringford · 3.2 miles
- Wroxall · 3.2 miles
- Ventnor · 3.8 miles
- Merstone (Isle of Wight) · 4.0 miles
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Facilities at Lake station
Lake is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
WiFi
From National Rail's station record, last updated 9 January 2026.
Getting to Lake station
Lake station is in Isle of Wight, South East, and is run by South Western Railway (Island Line).
The nearest motorway junction is M275 J2 (Rudmore), 11.8 miles north.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Lake 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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