Penzance railway station

You can reach 79 stations directly from Penzance on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is St Austell, with 65 trains a day.

See Penzance on the map

Penzance is the nearest station for postcodes in TR18, TR20, TR17, TR19. Check your own postcode.

Direct trains from Penzance

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
St Austell	65	56	50
Truro	65	57	50
Bodmin Parkway	64	56	50
Liskeard	64	56	50
Par	64	55	45
Plymouth	64	56	50
Redruth	64	57	50
Camborne	63	57	47
St Erth	63	61	52
Hayle	51	44	32
Saltash	51	40	26
Lostwithiel	47	36	30
St Germans	44	36	26
Exeter St Davids	42	42	36
Newton Abbot	41	41	36
Totnes	37	39	34
Taunton	22	28	20
London Paddington	21	24	20
Ivybridge	20	18	12
Reading	20	24	20
Tiverton Parkway	19	23	19
Menheniot	15	13	8
Devonport	14	10	5
Dawlish	12	14	11
Teignmouth	12	14	11
St Budeaux Ferry Road	9	8	4
Keyham	8	6	2
Bristol Temple Meads	7	7	4
Dockyard	7	6	2
Birmingham New Street	3	2	4
Bristol Parkway	3	2	4
Cheltenham Spa	3	2	4
Bath Spa	2	2	0
Berwick-upon-Tweed	2	2	2
Bridgwater	2	1	0
Carbis Bay	2	6	2
Chesterfield	2	2	3
Chippenham	2	2	0
Darlington	2	2	2
Derby	2	2	3

and 39 more stations, each served less often.

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How busy Penzance is

685,470 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 730th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 4,548 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Penzance and Truro than any other pair: 122,050 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: 58 stations instead of 79, a drop of about 27%. Saturday runs to 73.

Nearest other stations

St Erth 5.1 miles
Lelant Saltings 5.6 miles
Carbis Bay 6.0 miles
Lelant 6.0 miles
St Ives 6.4 miles

More about this station on Wikipedia.