Peterborough railway station

Peterborough is a major interchange: 167 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.

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Peterborough is the nearest station for postcodes in PE1, PE2, PE3, PE4, PE7, PE5, PE6. Check your own postcode.

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	124
Stevenage	101	92	47
Biggleswade	92	86	42
Doncaster	92	85	69
Huntingdon	92	86	42
St Neots	92	86	42
Grantham	84	81	60
Arlesey	82	80	36
Finsbury Park	82	80	36
Sandy	82	80	36
Hitchin	81	80	36
Ely	78	80	51
London Blackfriars	74	72	0
East Croydon	74	72	0
Gatwick Airport	74	72	0
Horley	74	72	0
Redhill	74	72	0
St Pancras International	74	72	0
Three Bridges	74	72	0
Farringdon	74	72	0
Crawley	73	72	0
Horsham	73	72	0
Ifield	73	72	0
Littlehaven	73	72	0
London Bridge	72	71	0
Coulsdon South	70	67	0
City Thameslink	69	48	0
Merstham	68	67	0
Newark Northgate	61	56	43
March	58	56	36
York	55	51	42
Lincoln	43	42	9
Darlington	39	36	31
Newcastle	39	36	32
Melton Mowbray	37	0	20
Oakham	37	0	20
Stamford	37	0	20
Leeds	36	33	28
Leicester	35	0	20
Wakefield Westgate	35	33	28

and 127 more stations, each served less often.

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How busy Peterborough 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: 97 stations instead of 167, a drop of about 42%. Saturday runs to 126.

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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More about this station on Wikipedia.