Lawrence Hill train station

You can reach 47 stations directly from Lawrence Hill on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Stapleton Road, with 112 trains a day.

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• 47 direct destinations
• 1,096th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Lawrence Hill

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

and 7 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill is on the Bristol and South Wales Union Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Lawrence Hill station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Lawrence Hill station on 303 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 59 paths on the Wednesday, 9 paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 63 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 03:00 to 04:00 on the Tuesday, with 8 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 Lawrence Hill station is

339,856 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,096th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Lawrence Hill and Bristol Temple Meads than any other pair: 75,920 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: 22 stations instead of 47, a drop of about 53%. Saturday runs to 36.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Lawrence Hill loses 9 destinations including Romsey, Fratton, Southampton Central, Dilton Marsh, Portsmouth and Southsea, Salisbury.

Nearest other stations

• Stapleton Road 0.6 miles
• Bristol Temple Meads 1.0 miles
• Montpelier 1.2 miles
• Ashley Down 1.5 miles
• Redland 1.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Bristol St Philip's · 0.7 miles
• St Anne's Park · 1.1 miles
• Brislington · 1.8 miles
• Fishponds · 2.0 miles
• Horfield · 2.5 miles
• Staple Hill · 2.6 miles

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Facilities at Lawrence Hill station

Lawrence Hill is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Cycle parking: 30 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 2 April 2026.

Getting to Lawrence Hill station

Lawrence Hill station is in Bristol, City of, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M32 J3 (Lower Ashley Road), 0.7 miles north-west.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Lawrence Hill Station.

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

Lawrence Hill 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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