Plymouth train station

You can reach 88 stations directly from Plymouth on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Exeter St Davids, with 117 trains a day.

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Plymouth is the nearest station for postcodes in PL4, PL1, PL3, PL95, PL6, PL9, PL7. Check your own postcode.

88 direct destinations
209th busiest in Britain
Staffed full time
Step-free throughout
267 parking spaces
8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Plymouth

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Exeter St Davids	117	78	81
Newton Abbot	117	78	81
Totnes	109	75	80
Taunton	96	62	65
Liskeard	86	56	54
Bodmin Parkway	82	56	54
Penzance	82	55	54
Redruth	82	55	54
St Austell	82	55	54
Truro	82	55	54
Tiverton Parkway	81	56	60
Par	80	56	50
Camborne	78	55	51
St Erth	76	54	54
Saltash	67	41	27
London Paddington	64	29	39
Reading	64	29	39
Bristol Temple Meads	62	34	38
Hayle	58	44	33
Lostwithiel	55	38	30
St Germans	53	37	27
Ivybridge	39	25	20
Devonport	35	27	15
Bristol Parkway	30	28	24
Birmingham New Street	28	0	2
Cheltenham Spa	28	0	2
Keyham	28	23	12
Dockyard	27	23	12
Derby	25	0	0
Chesterfield	24	0	0
Dawlish	24	22	19
Leeds	24	0	0
Sheffield	24	0	0
Teignmouth	24	22	19
Wakefield Westgate	24	0	0
York	21	0	0
Darlington	20	0	0
Durham	20	0	0
Menheniot	20	15	8
Newcastle	20	0	0

and 48 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Plymouth

Plymouth is on the Cornish Main Line and the South Devon Main Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Plymouth station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Plymouth station on 55 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 13 paths on the Wednesday, 5 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 1 of them runs whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 13:00 to 14:00 on the Thursday, with 4 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 Plymouth station is

2,672,762 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 209th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 128,466 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Plymouth and London Paddington than any other pair: 281,146 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: 66 stations instead of 88, a drop of about 25%. Saturday runs to 70.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Plymouth gains 17 destinations including Leuchars, Cupar, Ladybank, Markinch, Dundee, Manchester Piccadilly and loses 1 including Keynsham.