March train station
You can reach 60 stations directly from March on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Ely, with 58 trains a day.
Address: Station Approach, March, PE15 8SJ
March is the nearest station for postcodes in PE15, PE13. Check your own postcode.
- 60 direct destinations
- 1,029th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 135 parking spaces
Direct trains from March
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ely | 58 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 58 | 0 | 0 |
| Melton Mowbray | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| Oakham | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| Stamford | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| Birmingham New Street | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Coleshill Parkway | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Leicester | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Nuneaton | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge South | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Stansted Airport | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Whittlesea | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| Manea | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Bury St Edmunds | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Ipswich | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Stowmarket | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Soham | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Nottingham | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Norwich | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Thetford | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Narborough | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Alfreton | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Chesterfield | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Grantham | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Hinckley | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Sheffield | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Liverpool South Parkway | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Stockport | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Warrington Central | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Widnes | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Attleborough | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Colchester | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Manningtree | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Wymondham | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| South Wigston | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Loughborough | 2 | 0 | 0 |
and 20 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving March
March is on the Ely to Peterborough Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through March station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside March station on 783 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 151 paths on the Wednesday, 79 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 42 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 05:00 to 06:00 on the Tuesday, with 13 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 March station is
373,732 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,029th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 64 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between March and Peterborough than any other pair: 125,592 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
There is no Sunday service from March. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.
Nearest other stations
- Manea 5.6 miles
- Whittlesea 8.8 miles
- Littleport 11.6 miles
- Downham Market 11.9 miles
- Ely 13.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of March, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Waldersea · 3.2 miles
- Coldham · 3.2 miles
- March Elm Road · 3.2 miles
- Guyhirne · 3.3 miles
- Stonea · 3.8 miles
- Wimblington · 4.0 miles
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Facilities at March station
March is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:00 to 17:30 · Saturday: 07:00 to 17:30 · Sunday: closed
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at March station
- Station Car Park 135 spaces, 9 accessible
£1.00 an hour, £4.20 off-peak, £5.25 a day, £38.70 a week
Cycle parking: 60 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 July 2026.
Getting to March station
March station is in Fenland, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J16 (Norman Cross), 16.6 miles west.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
March 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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