Maidstone Barracks train station
You can reach 16 stations directly from Maidstone Barracks on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Aylesford, with 73 trains a day.
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Address: ME16 0SQ
Maidstone Barracks is the nearest station for postcodes in ME16. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Maidstone Barracks
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aylesford | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| Cuxton | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| Halling | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| Maidstone West | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| New Hythe | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| Snodland | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| Strood | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| Paddock Wood | 70 | 66 | 34 |
| Beltring | 69 | 66 | 34 |
| East Farleigh | 69 | 66 | 34 |
| Wateringbury | 69 | 66 | 34 |
| Yalding | 69 | 66 | 34 |
| Tonbridge | 14 | 4 | 6 |
| Chatham | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Gillingham | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Rochester | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Maidstone Barracks
Maidstone Barracks is on the Medway Valley Line and the Kent Downs Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Maidstone Barracks station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Maidstone Barracks station on 63 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 10 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 11:00 to 12:00 on the Monday, with 4 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 Maidstone Barracks station is
274,994 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,208th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 4,295 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Maidstone Barracks and Strood (Kent) than any other pair: 30,504 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.
Nearest other stations
- Maidstone East 0.3 miles
- Maidstone West 0.5 miles
- Barming 1.6 miles
- East Farleigh 2.0 miles
- Aylesford 2.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Maidstone Barracks, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Tovil · 0.8 miles
- Teston Crossing Halt · 3.3 miles
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Facilities at Maidstone Barracks station
Maidstone Barracks is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 August 2026.
Getting to Maidstone Barracks station
Maidstone Barracks station is in Maidstone, South East, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M20 J7 (Detling), 1.5 miles north-east.
1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Maidstone Barracks Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Maidstone Barracks 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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