Lydney train station
You can reach 19 stations directly from Lydney on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Cardiff Central, with 46 trains a day.
Lydney is the nearest station for postcodes in GL15, GL13, GL16, GL14, GL17, NP25. Check your own postcode.
- 19 direct destinations
- 1,416th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 85 parking spaces
- 2 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Lydney
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiff Central | 46 | 34 | 16 |
| Gloucester | 46 | 34 | 16 |
| Newport | 46 | 34 | 16 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 45 | 1 | 0 |
| Chepstow | 41 | 34 | 16 |
| Caldicot | 38 | 34 | 16 |
| Severn Tunnel Junction | 38 | 34 | 16 |
| Birmingham New Street | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| Beeston | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Burton-on-Trent | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Derby | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Long Eaton | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Nottingham | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Tamworth | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| University | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Worcestershire Parkway | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Ashchurch for Tewkesbury | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Attenborough | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Spondon | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Freight through Lydney station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Lydney station on 246 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 50 paths on the Wednesday, 11 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 48 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 22:00 to 23:00 on the Monday, with 5 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 Lydney station is
194,028 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,416th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Lydney and Cardiff Central than any other pair: 52,588 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: 6 stations instead of 19, a drop of about 68%. Saturday runs to 8.
Nearest other stations
- Cam and Dursley 7.3 miles
- Chepstow 7.9 miles
- Stonehouse 11.0 miles
- Pilning 11.7 miles
- Severn Beach 12.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Lydney, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- St Mary's Halt · 0.4 miles
- Severn Bridge · 2.5 miles
- Sharpness · 2.7 miles
- Berkeley · 3.3 miles
- Awre for Blakeney · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Lydney station
Lydney is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at Lydney station
- Lydney Station Car Park 85 spaces, 4 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 14 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 September 2025.
Getting to Lydney station
Lydney station is in Forest of Dean, South West, and is run by TfW Rail.
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J14 (Falfield), 6.3 miles south-east.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Lydney 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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