Parson Street train station

You can reach 50 stations directly from Parson Street on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bedminster, with 47 trains a day.

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• 50 direct destinations
• 1,389th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Parson Street

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

and 10 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Parson Street

Parson Street is on the Bristol to Taunton Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Parson Street station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Parson Street station on 43 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 9 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 19:00 to 20:00 on the Tuesday, with 3 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 Parson Street station is

204,214 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,389th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Parson Street and Bristol Temple Meads than any other pair: 34,984 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: 29 stations instead of 50, a drop of about 42%. Saturday runs to 42.

Nearest other stations

• Bedminster 0.8 miles
• Bristol Temple Meads 1.6 miles
• Clifton Down 2.2 miles
• Redland 2.5 miles
• Montpelier 2.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Ashton Gate · 0.9 miles
• Clifton Bridge · 1.2 miles
• Hotwells · 1.8 miles
• Long Ashton · 1.8 miles
• Nightingale Valley Halt · 1.9 miles
• Bristol St Philip's · 2.0 miles

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Facilities at Parson Street station

Parson Street is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.

Cycle parking: 16 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 February 2026.

Getting to Parson Street station

Parson Street station is in Bristol, City of, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M32 J3 (Lower Ashley Road), 2.5 miles north-east.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Parson Street Stn.

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

Parson Street 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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