Maidstone West train station
You can reach 20 stations directly from Maidstone West on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Strood, with 78 trains a day.
Address: ME16 8RJ
Maidstone West is the nearest station for postcodes in ME15. Check your own postcode.
- 20 direct destinations
- 817th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 54 parking spaces
- 10 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Maidstone West
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strood | 78 | 68 | 34 |
| Snodland | 77 | 68 | 34 |
| Aylesford | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| Cuxton | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| Halling | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| Maidstone Barracks | 73 | 68 | 34 |
| New Hythe | 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 |
| Gravesend | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Ebbsfleet International | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Stratford International | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| London St. Pancras International | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Chatham | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Gillingham | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Rochester | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Maidstone West
Maidstone West is on the Medway Valley Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Maidstone West station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Maidstone West 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 West station is
561,432 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 817th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 71,567 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Maidstone West and Strood (Kent) than any other pair: 62,288 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: 13 stations instead of 20, a drop of about 35%. Saturday runs to 16.
Nearest other stations
- Maidstone Barracks 0.5 miles
- Maidstone East 0.5 miles
- East Farleigh 1.7 miles
- Barming 1.9 miles
- Bearsted 2.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Maidstone West, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Tovil · 0.4 miles
- Teston Crossing Halt · 3.2 miles
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Facilities at Maidstone West station
Maidstone West is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:15 to 12:50 · Saturday: 06:10 to 12:50 · Sunday: closed
Toilets
Parking at Maidstone West station
- Station Car Park 54 spaces, 2 accessible
£7.20 off-peak, £7.90 a day, £32.80 a week
Cycle parking: 44 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 August 2026.
Getting to Maidstone West station
Maidstone West station is in Maidstone, South East, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M20 J7 (Detling), 1.8 miles north-east.
10 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Maidstone West Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Maidstone West 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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