Paddock Wood train station

You can reach 59 stations directly from Paddock Wood on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Tonbridge, with 97 trains a day.

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• 59 direct destinations
• 496th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 481 parking spaces
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Paddock Wood

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

and 19 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Paddock Wood

Paddock Wood is on the South Eastern Main Line and the Medway Valley Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Paddock Wood station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Paddock Wood station on 291 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 40 paths on the Wednesday, 58 paths on the Saturday and 36 paths on the Sunday. 2 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 11:00 to 12:00 on the Monday, with 8 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 Paddock Wood station is

1,090,192 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 496th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 169,808 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Paddock Wood and London Bridge than any other pair: 247,600 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: 38 stations instead of 59, a drop of about 36%. Saturday runs to 43.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Paddock Wood loses 5 destinations including St Mary Cray, Otford, London Victoria, Swanley, Bromley South.

Nearest other stations

• Beltring 1.6 miles
• Yalding 3.2 miles
• Marden 4.5 miles
• Wateringbury 4.9 miles
• Tonbridge 5.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Horsmonden · 3.7 miles

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Facilities at Paddock Wood station

Paddock Wood is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Saturday: 08:00 to 14:30 · Sunday: 08:10 to 14:30

Toilets · Waiting room

Parking at Paddock Wood station

• Station Car Park 481 spaces, 16 accessible
  £7.90 off-peak, £8.70 a day, £35.30 a week

Cycle parking: 96 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 20 August 2026.

Getting to Paddock Wood station

Paddock Wood station is in Tunbridge Wells, South East, and is run by Southeastern.

The nearest motorway junction is M26 J2A (Wrotham Heath), 8.6 miles north.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

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

Paddock Wood 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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