Lewes train station
You can reach 39 stations directly from Lewes on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Hampden Park, with 166 trains a day.
13 August 2026: a train derailed at Lewes. What the live running data recorded →
Lewes is the nearest station for postcodes in BN7. Check your own postcode.
- 39 direct destinations
- 212th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free in part
- 293 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Lewes
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampden Park | 166 | 147 | 86 |
| Brighton | 150 | 146 | 142 |
| Falmer | 149 | 144 | 111 |
| Eastbourne | 147 | 142 | 80 |
| Polegate | 147 | 142 | 80 |
| Moulsecoomb | 122 | 108 | 76 |
| London Road (Brighton) | 112 | 108 | 76 |
| Bexhill | 78 | 71 | 42 |
| Hastings | 78 | 71 | 42 |
| St Leonards Warrior Square | 78 | 71 | 42 |
| Newhaven Town | 76 | 74 | 65 |
| Haywards Heath | 73 | 70 | 3 |
| Bishopstone | 72 | 74 | 65 |
| Seaford | 72 | 74 | 65 |
| East Croydon | 69 | 68 | 0 |
| Wivelsfield | 69 | 68 | 1 |
| Clapham Junction | 67 | 0 | 0 |
| Gatwick Airport | 67 | 68 | 0 |
| London Victoria | 67 | 0 | 0 |
| Ore | 65 | 67 | 35 |
| Berwick | 56 | 37 | 40 |
| Newhaven Harbour | 55 | 40 | 36 |
| Cooden Beach | 54 | 53 | 36 |
| Collington | 52 | 52 | 36 |
| Glynde | 51 | 36 | 38 |
| Pevensey and Westham | 49 | 38 | 36 |
| Plumpton | 41 | 36 | 1 |
| Cooksbridge | 39 | 34 | 0 |
| Southease | 39 | 36 | 34 |
| Normans Bay | 35 | 34 | 28 |
| Pevensey Bay | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Three Bridges | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| London Bridge | 2 | 68 | 0 |
| Earlswood | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Horley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Purley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Redhill | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Salfords | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Selhurst | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Lewes
Lewes is on the East Coastway Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Lewes station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Lewes station on 92 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 19 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 3 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 11:00 to 12:00 on the Wednesday, with 6 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 Lewes station is
2,626,246 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 212th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 581,212 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Lewes and Brighton than any other pair: 516,394 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 39, a drop of about 36%. Saturday runs to 35.
Nearest other stations
- Cooksbridge 2.5 miles
- Glynde 2.7 miles
- Southease 2.8 miles
- Falmer 4.4 miles
- Plumpton 5.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Lewes, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Barcombe Mills · 3.2 miles
- Barcombe · 3.6 miles
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Facilities at Lewes station
Lewes is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 20:45 · Saturday: 06:30 to 20:20 · Sunday: 07:30 to 19:15
Toilets
Parking at Lewes station
- Station Car Park 293 spaces, 6 accessible
Cycle parking: 236 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.
Getting to Lewes station
Lewes station is in Lewes, South East, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).
The nearest motorway junction is M23 J11 (Pease Pottage), 17.4 miles north-west.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Lewes 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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