Newton Abbot train station

Newton Abbot is a major interchange: 113 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Exeter St Davids, with 201 trains a day.

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Newton Abbot is the nearest station for postcodes in TQ12, TQ13. Check your own postcode.

113 direct destinations
420th busiest in Britain
Staffed full time
Step-free throughout
247 parking spaces
3 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Newton Abbot

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Exeter St Davids	201	153	122
Plymouth	117	78	81
Taunton	112	69	72
Totnes	109	75	80
Dawlish	106	95	58
Teignmouth	106	95	58
Tiverton Parkway	93	60	63
Paignton	84	78	41
Torquay	84	78	41
Torre	77	73	36
Bristol Temple Meads	72	37	41
London Paddington	71	33	43
Reading	71	33	43
Digby and Sowton	61	60	31
Exeter Central	61	60	31
Exmouth	61	60	31
Lympstone Village	61	60	31
Newcourt	61	60	27
Topsham	61	60	31
Bodmin Parkway	60	35	40
Liskeard	60	35	40
Penzance	60	35	40
Redruth	60	35	40
St Austell	60	35	40
Truro	60	35	40
Dawlish Warren	58	72	36
Par	58	35	36
Camborne	56	35	37
St Erth	54	34	40
Exeter St Thomas	51	51	31
Starcross	50	50	31
Polsloe Bridge	46	47	15
Marsh Barton	45	44	30
St James' Park	45	48	15
Exton	44	46	15
Lympstone Commando	44	58	15
Saltash	41	20	16
Ivybridge	39	25	20
Hayle	36	24	20
Bristol Parkway	35	29	27

and 73 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Newton Abbot

Newton Abbot is on the South Devon Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Newton Abbot station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Newton Abbot station on 55 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 13 paths on the Wednesday, 5 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 1 of them runs whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 14:00 to 15:00 on the Thursday, 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 Newton Abbot station is

1,334,872 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 420th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 514,502 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Newton Abbot and Exeter Central than any other pair: 145,412 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: 72 stations instead of 113, a drop of about 36%. Saturday runs to 76.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Newton Abbot gains 11 destinations including Leuchars, Cupar, Ladybank, Markinch, Dundee, Aberdeen and loses 1 including Keynsham.