Needham Market train station
You can reach 18 stations directly from Needham Market on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bury St Edmunds, with 40 trains a day.
Needham Market is the nearest station for postcodes in IP6, IP7. Check your own postcode.
- 18 direct destinations
- 1,624th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 22 parking spaces
- 2 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Needham Market
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds | 40 | 36 | 28 |
| Elmswell | 40 | 36 | 28 |
| Ipswich | 40 | 36 | 28 |
| Stowmarket | 40 | 36 | 28 |
| Thurston | 40 | 36 | 28 |
| Cambridge | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Newmarket | 36 | 34 | 28 |
| Kennett | 29 | 25 | 16 |
| Dullingham | 26 | 24 | 17 |
| Harwich International | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Ely | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| March | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Manea | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Soham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Whittlesea | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Wrabness | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Needham Market
Needham Market is on the Great Eastern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Needham Market station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Needham Market station on 556 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 106 paths on the Wednesday, 73 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 28 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 Friday, with 10 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 Needham Market station is
129,588 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,624th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Needham Market and Ipswich than any other pair: 49,634 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: 10 stations instead of 18, a drop of about 44%. Saturday runs to 12.
Nearest other stations
- Stowmarket 3.5 miles
- Westerfield 6.8 miles
- Ipswich 8.0 miles
- Elmswell 8.5 miles
- Derby Road 8.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Needham Market, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Claydon railway station (Suffolk) · 3.5 miles
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Facilities at Needham Market station
Needham Market is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at Needham Market station
- There is a public car park next to the station 22 spaces, 1 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 20 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 May 2026.
Getting to Needham Market station
Needham Market station is in Mid Suffolk, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being The Swan.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Needham Market 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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