Preston Park train station
You can reach 60 stations directly from Preston Park on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Haywards Heath, with 177 trains a day.
Address: BN1 6SG
Direct trains from Preston Park
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haywards Heath | 177 | 148 | 11 |
| Burgess Hill | 172 | 145 | 9 |
| East Croydon | 163 | 145 | 10 |
| Gatwick Airport | 173 | 145 | 10 |
| Hassocks | 172 | 145 | 9 |
| London Bridge | 86 | 138 | 0 |
| Three Bridges | 107 | 86 | 9 |
| Wivelsfield | 85 | 81 | 9 |
| Brighton | 108 | 80 | 9 |
| London Blackfriars | 95 | 79 | 3 |
| St Pancras International | 95 | 79 | 3 |
| Bedford | 82 | 78 | 3 |
| Flitwick | 82 | 78 | 3 |
| Harlington | 77 | 78 | 3 |
| Harpenden | 79 | 78 | 3 |
| Leagrave | 77 | 78 | 3 |
| Luton Airport Parkway | 80 | 78 | 3 |
| Luton | 82 | 78 | 3 |
| St Albans City | 79 | 78 | 3 |
| West Hampstead Thameslink | 74 | 78 | 3 |
| Balcombe | 79 | 77 | 2 |
| Farringdon | 89 | 76 | 2 |
| Hove | 69 | 68 | 2 |
| Shoreham-by-Sea | 69 | 68 | 2 |
| Worthing | 69 | 68 | 2 |
| Lancing | 69 | 67 | 1 |
| Portslade | 69 | 67 | 1 |
| Angmering | 67 | 66 | 1 |
| Durrington-on-Sea | 67 | 66 | 1 |
| Goring-by-Sea | 67 | 66 | 1 |
| West Worthing | 67 | 66 | 1 |
| Littlehampton | 66 | 65 | 1 |
| City Thameslink | 84 | 48 | 0 |
| Brent Cross West | 13 | 9 | 3 |
| Southwick | 6 | 8 | 1 |
| Cricklewood | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Elstree & Borehamwood | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Hendon | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Kentish Town | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Mill Hill Broadway | 6 | 3 | 1 |
and 24 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Preston Park
Preston Park is on the Brighton Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Preston Park station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Preston Park station on 20 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 4 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 10 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.
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 Preston Park station is
1,126,092 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 488th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Preston Park and London Victoria than any other pair: 209,714 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.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Preston Park gains 2 destinations including Merstham, Coulsdon South.
Nearest other stations
- Hove 1.0 miles
- London Road (Brighton) 1.0 miles
- Aldrington 1.3 miles
- Brighton 1.3 miles
- Moulsecoomb 1.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Preston Park, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Holland Road Halt · 0.9 miles
- Lewes Road · 1.4 miles
- Hartington Road Halt · 1.6 miles
- Rowan Halt · 1.8 miles
- Kemp Town · 2.2 miles
- Golf Club Halt · 2.6 miles
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Facilities at Preston Park station
Preston Park is staffed part time, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:10 · Saturday: 06:00 to 19:10 · Sunday: 09:10 to 16:45
Toilets
Cycle parking: 20 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.
Getting to Preston Park station
Preston Park station is in Brighton and Hove, South East, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).
The nearest motorway junction is M23 J11 (Pease Pottage), 16.5 miles north.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Preston Park 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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