Maidstone East train station
You can reach 33 stations directly from Maidstone East on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Borough Green & Wrotham, with 109 trains a day.
Address: ME14 1QN
Maidstone East is the nearest station for postcodes in ME14. Check your own postcode.
- 33 direct destinations
- 323rd busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free in part
- 524 parking spaces
- 6 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Maidstone East
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borough Green & Wrotham | 109 | 107 | 32 |
| Otford | 109 | 107 | 32 |
| Swanley | 109 | 107 | 32 |
| West Malling | 109 | 107 | 32 |
| Ashford International | 73 | 52 | 34 |
| Bearsted | 73 | 52 | 34 |
| Lenham | 71 | 51 | 34 |
| Charing | 69 | 50 | 33 |
| Hollingbourne | 69 | 50 | 33 |
| Harrietsham | 69 | 50 | 33 |
| Barming | 63 | 39 | 32 |
| Bromley South | 63 | 73 | 32 |
| East Malling | 63 | 39 | 32 |
| London Victoria | 61 | 73 | 32 |
| St Mary Cray | 57 | 73 | 32 |
| Charing Cross | 46 | 34 | 0 |
| London Bridge | 46 | 34 | 0 |
| Waterloo East | 46 | 34 | 0 |
| Kemsing | 38 | 36 | 0 |
| Canterbury West | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Chilham | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Chartham | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Minster | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Sturry | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Wye | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| London Blackfriars | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Elephant & Castle | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ramsgate | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Folkestone Central | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Folkestone West | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sandling | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Thanet Parkway | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Westenhanger | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Maidstone East
Maidstone East is on the Kent Downs Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Maidstone East station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Maidstone East station on 404 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 65 paths on the Wednesday, 55 paths on the Saturday and 32 paths on the Sunday. 10 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 00:00 to 01:00 on the Tuesday, 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 Maidstone East station is
1,727,430 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 323rd busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 28,955 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Maidstone East and London Victoria than any other pair: 376,692 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 33, a drop of about 55%. Saturday runs to 19.
Nearest other stations
- Maidstone Barracks 0.3 miles
- Maidstone West 0.5 miles
- Barming 1.8 miles
- East Farleigh 2.2 miles
- Bearsted 2.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Maidstone East, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Tovil · 0.9 miles
- Teston Crossing Halt · 3.5 miles
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Facilities at Maidstone East station
Maidstone East is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 07:45 to 20:00
Toilets · Waiting room
Parking at Maidstone East station
- Station Car Park 524 spaces, 6 accessible
£7.20 off-peak, £8.00 a day, £33.30 a week
Cycle parking: 40 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 August 2026.
Getting to Maidstone East station
Maidstone East station is in Maidstone, South East, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M20 J7 (Detling), 1.3 miles north-east.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Maidstone East Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Maidstone East 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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