Leicester train station
You can reach 53 stations directly from Leicester on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is St Pancras International, with 135 trains a day.
Address: LE2 0QB
Leicester is the nearest station for postcodes in LE1, LE87, LE21, LE5, LE2, LE3, LE4, LE6. Check your own postcode.
- 53 direct destinations
- 92nd busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 458 parking spaces
- 8 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Leicester
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Pancras International | 135 | 130 | 77 |
| East Midlands Parkway | 116 | 111 | 78 |
| Loughborough | 113 | 113 | 62 |
| Nottingham | 102 | 101 | 39 |
| Derby | 71 | 70 | 42 |
| Kettering | 71 | 68 | 46 |
| Beeston | 70 | 68 | 31 |
| Birmingham New Street | 70 | 66 | 45 |
| Coleshill Parkway | 70 | 66 | 45 |
| Nuneaton | 70 | 66 | 45 |
| Market Harborough | 69 | 69 | 57 |
| Chesterfield | 66 | 66 | 38 |
| Sheffield | 66 | 66 | 38 |
| Hinckley | 42 | 34 | 25 |
| Narborough | 41 | 34 | 25 |
| Long Eaton | 40 | 37 | 29 |
| Melton Mowbray | 35 | 32 | 21 |
| Oakham | 35 | 32 | 21 |
| Peterborough | 35 | 32 | 21 |
| Stamford | 35 | 32 | 21 |
| Cambridge | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Ely | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| March | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Sileby | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Syston | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Barrow-upon-Soar | 33 | 34 | 0 |
| Attenborough | 31 | 33 | 0 |
| Cambridge South | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Stansted Airport | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| South Wigston | 31 | 27 | 19 |
| Water Orton | 15 | 12 | 0 |
| Manea | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Whittlesea | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Wellingborough | 6 | 3 | 20 |
| Bedford | 4 | 4 | 20 |
| Collingham | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Hykeham | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Lincoln | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Lowdham | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Luton Airport Parkway | 3 | 0 | 20 |
and 13 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Leicester
Leicester is on the Midland Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Leicester station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Leicester station on 435 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 79 paths on the Wednesday, 52 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 50 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 01:00 to 02:00 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Leicester station is
5,527,136 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 92nd busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 517,869 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Leicester and London St Pancras International than any other pair: 954,994 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: 25 stations instead of 53, a drop of about 53%. Saturday runs to 39.
Nearest other stations
- South Wigston 3.5 miles
- Syston 4.6 miles
- Narborough 5.4 miles
- Sileby 6.9 miles
- Barrow-upon-Soar 8.2 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Leicester, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Humberstone Road · 0.7 miles
- Welford Road · 0.9 miles
- Leicester Belgrave Road · 0.9 miles
- Vic Berry's Scrapyard · 0.9 miles
- Leicester West Bridge · 1.0 miles
- Leicester Central · 1.0 miles
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Facilities at Leicester station
Leicester is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:20 to 22:30 · Saturday: 05:20 to 22:30 · Sunday: 07:15 to 22:30
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Leicester station
- Station car park 448 spaces, 15 accessible
£16.50 a day, £49.50 a week - Short stay car park 10 spaces, 4 accessible
£8.30 off-peak, £16.50 a day, £49.50 a week
Cycle parking: 222 spaces (sheltered, compounds).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.
Getting to Leicester station
Leicester station is in Leicester, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J21, 3.5 miles south-west.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Leicester 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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