Nailsea and Backwell train station

You can reach 75 stations directly from Nailsea and Backwell on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bristol Temple Meads, with 85 trains a day.

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• 75 direct destinations
• 890th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 268 parking spaces
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Nailsea and Backwell

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

and 35 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Nailsea and Backwell

Nailsea and Backwell is on the Bristol to Taunton Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Nailsea and Backwell station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Nailsea and Backwell station on 43 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 9 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths 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 19:00 to 20:00 on the Tuesday, with 3 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.

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

How busy Nailsea and Backwell station is

476,312 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 890th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Nailsea and Backwell and Bristol Temple Meads than any other pair: 119,782 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: 41 stations instead of 75, a drop of about 45%. Saturday runs to 46.

Nearest other stations

• Yatton 3.9 miles
• Shirehampton 5.4 miles
• Portway Park and Ride 5.4 miles
• Avonmouth 5.9 miles
• Sea Mills 6.0 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Flax Bourton · 2.1 miles
• Cadbury Road · 3.7 miles
• Clapton Road · 3.8 miles
• Portishead South · 4.0 miles
• Walton in Gordano · 4.0 miles
• Clevedon East · 4.1 miles

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Facilities at Nailsea and Backwell station

Nailsea and Backwell is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 09:45 · at weekends: closed

Parking at Nailsea and Backwell station

• Council Managed Car Park 268 spaces, 7 accessible

Cycle parking: 20 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 19 August 2026.

Getting to Nailsea and Backwell station

Nailsea and Backwell station is in North Somerset, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M5 J20 (Clevedon Interchange), 3.8 miles west.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Nailsea and Backwell Station.

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

Nailsea and Backwell 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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