Pluckley train station

You can reach 44 stations directly from Pluckley on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Ashford International, with 68 trains a day.

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• 44 direct destinations
• 1,695th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 50 parking spaces
• 3 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Pluckley

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

and 4 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Pluckley

Pluckley 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 Pluckley station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Pluckley station on 228 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 30 paths on the Wednesday, 56 paths on the Saturday and 35 paths on the Sunday. 2 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 00:00 to 01:00 on the Monday, with 6 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 Pluckley station is

114,656 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,695th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Pluckley and London Bridge than any other pair: 30,860 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: 26 stations instead of 44, a drop of about 41%. Saturday runs to 24.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Pluckley loses 5 destinations including St Mary Cray, Otford, London Victoria, Swanley, Bromley South.

Nearest other stations

• Charing 4.0 miles
• Headcorn 5.2 miles
• Ashford International 5.6 miles
• Lenham 5.7 miles
• Harrietsham 6.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Hothfield · 4.1 miles
• High Halden Road · 4.9 miles
• Biddenden · 5.0 miles

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Facilities at Pluckley station

Pluckley is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 10:40 · Saturday: closed · Sunday: closed

Parking at Pluckley station

• Station Car Park 50 spaces, 3 accessible
  £5.60 off-peak, £6.20 a day, £25.20 a week

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, racks).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 August 2026.

Getting to Pluckley station

Pluckley station is in Ashford, South East, and is run by Southeastern.

The nearest motorway junction is M20 J9 (Drovers), 5.0 miles east.

3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

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

Pluckley 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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