Purley Oaks train station
You can reach 23 stations directly from Purley Oaks on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is East Croydon, with 74 trains a day.
Address: CR2 0ND
Direct trains from Purley Oaks
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Croydon | 74 | 72 | 68 |
| Purley | 74 | 72 | 68 |
| South Croydon | 74 | 72 | 68 |
| London Bridge | 73 | 72 | 67 |
| Caterham | 72 | 72 | 68 |
| Kenley | 72 | 72 | 68 |
| Whyteleafe South | 72 | 72 | 68 |
| Whyteleafe | 72 | 72 | 68 |
| Norwood Junction | 66 | 72 | 67 |
| Anerley | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Brockley | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Forest Hill | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Honor Oak Park | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| New Cross Gate | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Penge West | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Sydenham | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Coulsdon South | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Clapham Junction | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Gatwick Airport | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Horley | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Merstham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Redhill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| London Victoria | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Purley Oaks
Purley Oaks is on the Brighton Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Purley Oaks station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Purley Oaks station on 356 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 62 paths on the Wednesday, 31 paths on the Saturday and 22 paths on the Sunday. 4 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Monday, with 10 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 Purley Oaks station is
480,890 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 886th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Purley Oaks and London Bridge than any other pair: 255,344 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: 9 stations instead of 23, a drop of about 61%. Saturday runs to 9.
Nearest other stations
- Sanderstead 0.2 miles
- Purley 0.9 miles
- Riddlesdown 1.0 miles
- South Croydon 1.1 miles
- Reedham 1.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Purley Oaks, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Selsdon · 0.8 miles
- Spencer Road Halt · 1.1 miles
- Coombe Road · 1.4 miles
- Croydon Central · 1.7 miles
- Bandon Halt · 1.9 miles
- Addiscombe · 2.3 miles
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Facilities at Purley Oaks station
Purley Oaks is staffed full time, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 13:20, 15:10 to 18:40 · Saturday: 07:16 to 14:10 · Sunday: closed
Toilets
Parking at Purley Oaks station
- Station Car Park 68 spaces, 2 accessible
Cycle parking: 80 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.
Getting to Purley Oaks station
Purley Oaks station is in Croydon, London, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).
The nearest motorway junction is M23 J7 (Hooley), 5.0 miles south-west.
Purley Oaks is inside the London Travelcard area.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Purley Oaks 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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