Oxford train station
You can reach 85 stations directly from Oxford on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Reading, with 129 trains a day.
Address: Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HS
Oxford is the nearest station for postcodes in OX1, OX2, OX3, OX4, OX33. Check your own postcode.
- 85 direct destinations
- 58th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 530 parking spaces
- 10 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Oxford
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 129 | 125 | 94 |
| Didcot Parkway | 87 | 82 | 58 |
| Banbury | 77 | 69 | 39 |
| Bicester Village | 75 | 68 | 63 |
| Oxford Parkway | 75 | 68 | 63 |
| London Paddington | 75 | 73 | 55 |
| London Marylebone | 72 | 67 | 61 |
| High Wycombe | 71 | 67 | 60 |
| Princes Risborough | 60 | 33 | 30 |
| Gerrards Cross | 58 | 64 | 59 |
| Birmingham New Street | 54 | 52 | 39 |
| Culham | 54 | 36 | 0 |
| Leamington Spa | 54 | 52 | 39 |
| Radley | 54 | 36 | 26 |
| Beaconsfield | 53 | 64 | 59 |
| Evesham | 44 | 33 | 29 |
| Moreton-in-Marsh | 44 | 33 | 29 |
| Charlbury | 43 | 33 | 29 |
| Kingham | 43 | 33 | 29 |
| Hanborough | 42 | 33 | 28 |
| Haddenham and Thame Parkway | 41 | 35 | 60 |
| Worcester Shrub Hill | 41 | 33 | 29 |
| Honeybourne | 39 | 33 | 29 |
| Pershore | 39 | 33 | 29 |
| Birmingham International | 33 | 32 | 36 |
| Basingstoke | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Coventry | 33 | 32 | 36 |
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Southampton Central | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Winchester | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Worcester Foregate Street | 33 | 31 | 27 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Stafford | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Wolverhampton | 31 | 29 | 24 |
| Saunderton | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 30 | 29 | 23 |
| Brockenhurst | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Bournemouth | 29 | 29 | 22 |
| Macclesfield | 28 | 28 | 23 |
| Stockport | 28 | 28 | 24 |
and 45 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Oxford
Oxford is on the Didcot and Chester Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Oxford station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Oxford station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Oxford station is
8,145,214 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 58th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 539,490 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Oxford and London Paddington than any other pair: 2,864,164 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: 56 stations instead of 85, a drop of about 34%. Saturday runs to 80.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Oxford gains 9 destinations including Dunbar, Alnmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Motherwell, Glasgow Central, Haymarket.
Nearest other stations
- Oxford Parkway 3.5 miles
- Radley 4.9 miles
- Islip 5.2 miles
- Hanborough 6.6 miles
- Culham 7.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Oxford, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Port Meadow Halt · 1.0 miles
- Hinksey Halt · 1.3 miles
- Abingdon Road Halt · 1.8 miles
- Wolvercote Halt · 2.2 miles
- Wolvercot Platform · 2.3 miles
- Iffley Halt · 2.5 miles
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Facilities at Oxford station
Oxford is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 07:30 to 20:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 19:00
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Oxford station
- Station Car Park 530 spaces
Cycle parking: 1,064 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 6 September 2026.
Getting to Oxford station
Oxford station is in Oxford, South East, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M40 J8A (Wheatley), 7.3 miles east.
10 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Oxford 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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