Montpelier train station

You can reach 32 stations directly from Montpelier on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bristol Temple Meads, with 70 trains a day.

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• 32 direct destinations
• 1,251st busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free throughout
• 2 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Montpelier

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

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Lines serving Montpelier

Montpelier is on the Severn Beach Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Montpelier station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Montpelier station on 6 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 1 path on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. All of them run whatever the traffic.

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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Montpelier station is

252,028 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,251st busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Montpelier and Bristol Temple Meads than any other pair: 68,202 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: 22 stations instead of 32, a drop of about 31%. Saturday runs to 30.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Montpelier loses 11 destinations including Trowbridge, Keynsham, Oldfield Park, Freshford, Avoncliff, Bradford-on-Avon.

Nearest other stations

• Redland 0.5 miles
• Ashley Down 0.8 miles
• Stapleton Road 0.9 miles
• Clifton Down 1.0 miles
• Lawrence Hill 1.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Montpelier, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Bristol St Philip's · 1.0 miles
• Hotwells Halt · 1.9 miles
• Hotwells · 1.9 miles
• Horfield · 2.0 miles
• Nightingale Valley Halt · 2.0 miles
• Clifton Bridge · 2.2 miles

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Facilities at Montpelier station

Montpelier is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 2 April 2026.

Getting to Montpelier station

Montpelier station is in Bristol, City of, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M32 J3 (Lower Ashley Road), 0.6 miles south-east.

2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Belvoir Road.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Montpelier 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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