Loughborough train station
You can reach 37 stations directly from Loughborough on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Leicester, with 113 trains a day.
Loughborough is the nearest station for postcodes in LE12, LE11, LE67. Check your own postcode.
- 37 direct destinations
- 390th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 244 parking spaces
- 8 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Loughborough
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leicester | 113 | 113 | 62 |
| East Midlands Parkway | 107 | 111 | 62 |
| St Pancras International | 74 | 72 | 59 |
| Nottingham | 72 | 74 | 30 |
| Beeston | 67 | 68 | 29 |
| Derby | 42 | 41 | 33 |
| Kettering | 39 | 38 | 37 |
| Long Eaton | 39 | 36 | 28 |
| Chesterfield | 37 | 37 | 29 |
| Market Harborough | 37 | 39 | 46 |
| Sheffield | 37 | 37 | 29 |
| Sileby | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Syston | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Barrow-upon-Soar | 33 | 34 | 0 |
| Attenborough | 31 | 33 | 0 |
| Bedford | 4 | 3 | 19 |
| Melton Mowbray | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Oakham | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Stamford | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Wellingborough | 3 | 3 | 19 |
| Attleborough | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ely | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Luton Airport Parkway | 2 | 0 | 19 |
| March | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Norwich | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Thetford | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wymondham | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Brandon | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Collingham | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Carlton | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Fiskerton | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Hykeham | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lincoln | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lowdham | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Newark Castle | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Swinderby | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Loughborough
Loughborough is on the Midland Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Loughborough station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Loughborough station on 681 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 129 paths on the Wednesday, 55 paths on the Saturday and 8 paths on the Sunday. 36 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 08:00 to 09:00 on the Friday, with 15 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 Loughborough station is
1,421,786 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 390th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 13,159 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Loughborough and Leicester than any other pair: 318,452 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: 15 stations instead of 37, a drop of about 59%. Saturday runs to 31.
Nearest other stations
- Barrow-upon-Soar 3.0 miles
- Sileby 4.9 miles
- East Midlands Parkway 6.3 miles
- Syston 7.6 miles
- Long Eaton 8.2 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Loughborough, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Loughborough Derby Road · 0.9 miles
- Hathern · 2.7 miles
- Snells Nook Halt · 3.0 miles
- East Leake · 3.6 miles
- Shepshed · 4.3 miles
- Kegworth · 4.6 miles
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Facilities at Loughborough station
Loughborough is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Saturday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Sunday: 08:15 to 21:00
Toilets
Parking at Loughborough station
- Station Car Park 244 spaces, 10 accessible
£6.60 off-peak, £13.20 a day, £39.60 a week
Cycle parking: 130 spaces (sheltered, compounds).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.
Getting to Loughborough station
Loughborough station is in Charnwood, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J23, 3.4 miles west.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Loughborough 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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