Par train station
You can reach 81 stations directly from Par on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is St Austell, with 82 trains a day.
Par is the nearest station for postcodes in PL24, PL23. Check your own postcode.
- 81 direct destinations
- 1,330th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 25 parking spaces
- 2 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Par
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Austell | 82 | 56 | 50 |
| Truro | 82 | 56 | 50 |
| Penzance | 81 | 55 | 50 |
| Bodmin Parkway | 80 | 56 | 50 |
| Liskeard | 80 | 56 | 50 |
| Plymouth | 80 | 56 | 50 |
| Redruth | 80 | 55 | 50 |
| Camborne | 79 | 55 | 50 |
| St Erth | 76 | 54 | 50 |
| Saltash | 61 | 41 | 27 |
| Hayle | 59 | 44 | 33 |
| Exeter St Davids | 58 | 35 | 36 |
| Newton Abbot | 58 | 35 | 36 |
| Lostwithiel | 55 | 38 | 30 |
| Totnes | 54 | 34 | 35 |
| St Germans | 49 | 37 | 27 |
| Taunton | 40 | 22 | 23 |
| London Paddington | 37 | 17 | 23 |
| Reading | 37 | 17 | 23 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 31 | 19 | 22 |
| Newquay | 30 | 30 | 16 |
| Quintrell Downs | 30 | 30 | 16 |
| Ivybridge | 24 | 15 | 14 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 23 | 6 | 7 |
| St. Columb Road | 18 | 18 | 8 |
| Bugle | 17 | 17 | 11 |
| Luxulyan | 17 | 17 | 11 |
| Menheniot | 17 | 15 | 8 |
| Roche | 17 | 17 | 11 |
| Devonport | 15 | 11 | 5 |
| Dawlish | 12 | 13 | 11 |
| Teignmouth | 12 | 13 | 11 |
| St Budeaux Ferry Road | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| Keyham | 8 | 7 | 2 |
| Dockyard | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Swindon | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| Bath Spa | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Chippenham | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Birmingham New Street | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Parkway | 3 | 2 | 1 |
and 41 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Par
Par is on the Cornish Main Line and The Atlantic Coast Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Par station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Par station on 59 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 14 paths on the Wednesday, 6 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 10 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 12:00 to 13:00 on the Thursday, with 5 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 Par station is
222,704 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,330th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 101,405 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Par and Truro than any other pair: 46,356 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: 44 stations instead of 81, a drop of about 46%. Saturday runs to 50.
Nearest other stations
- Luxulyan 3.1 miles
- St Austell 3.9 miles
- Lostwithiel 3.9 miles
- Bugle 4.9 miles
- Bodmin Parkway 6.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Par, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
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Facilities at Par station
Par is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:00 to 14:30 · Saturday: 08:00 to 14:30 · Sunday: closed
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Par station
- Station Car Park 25 spaces
free
Cycle parking: 4 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 July 2026.
Getting to Par station
Par station is in Cornwall, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Par 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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