Peterborough train station
Peterborough is a major interchange: 166 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is London King's Cross, with 128 trains a day.
Peterborough is the nearest station for postcodes in PE1, PE2, PE3, PE4, PE7, PE5, PE6. Check your own postcode.
- 166 direct destinations
- 98th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 1,186 parking spaces
Direct trains from Peterborough
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| London King's Cross | 128 | 117 | 121 |
| Stevenage | 100 | 91 | 44 |
| Doncaster | 92 | 85 | 70 |
| Biggleswade | 91 | 85 | 40 |
| Huntingdon | 91 | 85 | 40 |
| St Neots | 91 | 85 | 40 |
| Grantham | 84 | 81 | 59 |
| Arlesey | 81 | 79 | 33 |
| Finsbury Park | 81 | 79 | 33 |
| Hitchin | 81 | 79 | 34 |
| Sandy | 81 | 79 | 34 |
| Ely | 78 | 0 | 0 |
| London Blackfriars | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| East Croydon | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Gatwick Airport | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Horley | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Redhill | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| St Pancras International | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Three Bridges | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Farringdon | 73 | 71 | 0 |
| Crawley | 72 | 71 | 0 |
| Horsham | 72 | 71 | 0 |
| Ifield | 72 | 71 | 0 |
| Littlehaven | 72 | 71 | 0 |
| London Bridge | 71 | 71 | 0 |
| Coulsdon South | 69 | 66 | 0 |
| City Thameslink | 68 | 48 | 0 |
| Merstham | 67 | 66 | 0 |
| Newark Northgate | 61 | 56 | 44 |
| March | 58 | 0 | 0 |
| York | 54 | 51 | 42 |
| Lincoln | 43 | 41 | 9 |
| Darlington | 39 | 36 | 31 |
| Newcastle | 39 | 36 | 32 |
| Melton Mowbray | 37 | 34 | 21 |
| Oakham | 37 | 34 | 21 |
| Stamford | 37 | 34 | 21 |
| Leeds | 36 | 33 | 28 |
| Leicester | 35 | 32 | 21 |
| Birmingham New Street | 34 | 32 | 20 |
and 126 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Peterborough
Peterborough is on the East Coast Main Line and the Ely to Peterborough Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Peterborough station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Peterborough station on 1,174 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 215 paths on the Wednesday, 162 paths on the Saturday and 14 paths on the Sunday. 74 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 03:00 to 04:00 on the Wednesday, with 23 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 Peterborough station is
5,299,726 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 98th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 960,218 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Peterborough and London Kings Cross than any other pair: 2,355,752 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: 76 stations instead of 166, a drop of about 54%. Saturday runs to 121.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Peterborough gains 1 destination including Kirkcaldy.
Nearest other stations
- Whittlesea 5.8 miles
- Stamford 10.9 miles
- March 14.4 miles
- Spalding 15.3 miles
- Huntingdon 17.2 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Peterborough, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Peterborough East · 0.7 miles
- Fletton · 1.4 miles
- Walton (Cambridgeshire) · 2.3 miles
- Yaxley and Farcet · 3.7 miles
- Eye Green · 3.8 miles
- Castor · 4.6 miles
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Facilities at Peterborough station
Peterborough is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 06:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 20:00
Toilets · Waiting room
Parking at Peterborough station
- Main station 731 spaces, 26 accessible
£3.50 an hour, £8.00 off-peak, £20.00 a day, £60.00 a week - Mayor's Walk Car Park 262 spaces
£3.50 an hour, £8.00 off-peak, £20.00 a day, £60.00 a week - Spittle Bank 193 spaces
£3.50 an hour, £8.00 off-peak, £20.00 a day, £60.00 a week
Cycle parking: 458 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 26 August 2026.
Getting to Peterborough station
Peterborough station is in Peterborough, East of England, and is run by London North Eastern Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J17 (Fletton Parkway), 4.0 miles south-west.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Peterborough 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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