Petts Wood train station

You can reach 52 stations directly from Petts Wood on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Orpington, with 327 trains a day.

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• 52 direct destinations
• 329th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 197 parking spaces
• 9 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Petts Wood

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

and 12 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Petts Wood

Petts Wood is on the South Eastern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Petts Wood station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Petts Wood station on 229 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 36 paths on the Wednesday, 34 paths on the Saturday and 13 paths on the Sunday. 6 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 22:00 to 23:00 on the Saturday, with 5 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 Petts Wood station is

1,707,602 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 329th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Petts Wood and London Bridge than any other pair: 401,774 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: 37 stations instead of 52, a drop of about 29%. Saturday runs to 27.

Nearest other stations

• Orpington 1.2 miles
• Chislehurst 1.3 miles
• St Mary Cray 1.4 miles
• Bickley 1.5 miles
• Elmstead Woods 2.3 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Eltham Park · 4.7 miles

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Facilities at Petts Wood station

Petts Wood is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:45 to 20:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 07:45 to 19:45

Toilets

Parking at Petts Wood station

• Station Car Park 197 spaces, 9 accessible
  £6.90 off-peak, £7.60 a day, £32.80 a week

Cycle parking: 40 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 6 August 2026.

Getting to Petts Wood station

Petts Wood station is in Bromley, London, and is run by Southeastern.

The nearest motorway junction is M25 J4 (Hewitts), 4.2 miles south-east.

9 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Station Square / Petts Wood Station.

Petts Wood is inside the London Travelcard area.

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

Petts Wood 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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