Parson Street train station
You can reach 50 stations directly from Parson Street on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bristol Temple Meads, with 47 trains a day.
Parson Street is the nearest station for postcodes in BS13, BS41. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Parson Street
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol Temple Meads | 47 | 38 | 30 |
| Nailsea and Backwell | 47 | 38 | 30 |
| Worle | 47 | 38 | 30 |
| Weston-super-Mare | 47 | 38 | 30 |
| Yatton | 47 | 38 | 30 |
| Bedminster | 47 | 35 | 30 |
| Weston Milton | 47 | 34 | 30 |
| Avonmouth | 26 | 23 | 18 |
| Clifton Down | 27 | 23 | 18 |
| Lawrence Hill | 32 | 23 | 18 |
| Montpelier | 27 | 23 | 18 |
| Portway Park and Ride | 26 | 23 | 18 |
| Redland | 27 | 23 | 18 |
| Shirehampton | 26 | 23 | 18 |
| Sea Mills | 26 | 23 | 18 |
| Stapleton Road | 32 | 23 | 18 |
| Bridgwater | 19 | 12 | 10 |
| Highbridge and Burnham | 19 | 12 | 10 |
| St Andrews Road | 14 | 12 | 18 |
| Severn Beach | 14 | 12 | 18 |
| Taunton | 19 | 12 | 10 |
| Filton Abbey Wood | 13 | 9 | 4 |
| Cardiff Central | 12 | 8 | 4 |
| Exeter St Davids | 8 | 8 | 3 |
| Newport | 12 | 8 | 4 |
| Patchway | 12 | 8 | 3 |
| Severn Tunnel Junction | 12 | 8 | 3 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 6 | 7 | 2 |
| Ashley Down | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Dawlish | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Ivybridge | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Newton Abbot | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Plymouth | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Teignmouth | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Totnes | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Bodmin Parkway | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Bristol Parkway | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Bath Spa | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Camborne | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Chippenham | 0 | 1 | 0 |
and 16 more stations, each served less often.
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.
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 56.
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
Show closed stations on the map
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