Ludlow train station

You can reach 75 stations directly from Ludlow on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Cardiff Central, with 56 trains a day.

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• 75 direct destinations
• 1,215th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 25 parking spaces

Direct trains from Ludlow

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

and 35 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Ludlow

Ludlow is on the Welsh Marches Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Ludlow station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Ludlow station on 126 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 24 paths on the Wednesday, 8 paths on the Saturday and 6 paths on the Sunday. 18 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 7 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 Ludlow station is

271,100 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,215th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 477 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Ludlow and Hereford than any other pair: 85,464 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: 51 stations instead of 75, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 55.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Ludlow loses 2 destinations including Milford Haven, Johnston.

Nearest other stations

• Craven Arms 7.1 miles
• Broome 8.0 miles
• Hopton Heath 8.4 miles
• Bucknell 9.8 miles
• Leominster 10.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Bromfield · 2.3 miles
• Ashford Bowdler · 2.8 miles
• Woofferton · 4.1 miles
• Onibury · 4.5 miles

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Facilities at Ludlow station

Ludlow is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:45 to 16:45 · Saturday: 06:45 to 12:45 · Sunday: closed

Parking at Ludlow station

• Ludlow Station Car Park 25 spaces, 4 accessible

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 May 2026.

Getting to Ludlow station

Ludlow station is in Shropshire, West Midlands, and is run by TfW Rail.

The nearest motorway junction is M54 J7, 23.2 miles north.

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

Ludlow 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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