Lakenheath train station
Lakenheath has no weekday service at all. Trains call on Saturdays only, reaching 6 stations directly. Stations like this keep a minimal service rather than going through the formal closure process.
Lakenheath is the nearest station for postcodes in IP27. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Lakenheath
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
Lines serving Lakenheath
Lakenheath is on the Breckland Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Lakenheath station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Lakenheath station on 85 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 18 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 9 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 06:00 to 07:00 on the Tuesday, with 5 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 Lakenheath station is
920 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,544th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Lakenheath and Stansted Airport than any other pair: 168 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
- Brandon 3.8 miles
- Shippea Hill 5.3 miles
- Thetford 9.1 miles
- Littleport 9.2 miles
- Soham 11.7 miles
Facilities at Lakenheath station
Lakenheath is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Cycle parking: 2 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 May 2026.
Getting to Lakenheath station
Lakenheath station is in West Suffolk, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Lakenheath 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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