Rowlands Castle train station
You can reach 33 stations directly from Rowlands Castle on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Guildford, with 50 trains a day.
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Address: Bowes Hill, Rowland's Castle, PO9 6BP
Rowlands Castle is the nearest station for postcodes in PO8. Check your own postcode.
- 33 direct destinations
- 1,603rd busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 26 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Rowlands Castle
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guildford | 50 | 39 | 0 |
| Havant | 50 | 39 | 36 |
| Haslemere | 50 | 39 | 36 |
| Liphook | 50 | 39 | 36 |
| Liss | 50 | 39 | 36 |
| Petersfield | 50 | 39 | 36 |
| Godalming | 49 | 38 | 0 |
| Bedhampton | 48 | 37 | 36 |
| Farncombe | 48 | 38 | 0 |
| London Waterloo | 48 | 37 | 0 |
| Fratton | 45 | 37 | 36 |
| Hilsea | 45 | 37 | 2 |
| Woking | 45 | 36 | 0 |
| Portsmouth and Southsea | 42 | 37 | 36 |
| Portsmouth Harbour | 35 | 11 | 35 |
| Milford | 24 | 38 | 0 |
| Witley | 24 | 38 | 0 |
| Clapham Junction | 18 | 37 | 0 |
| Worplesdon | 17 | 33 | 0 |
| Cosham | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Fareham | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Portchester | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Netley | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Swanwick | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Southampton Central | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Surbiton | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Wimbledon | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Woolston | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| St Denys | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Vauxhall | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Walton-on-Thames | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| West Byfleet | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Weybridge | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Rowlands Castle
Rowlands Castle is on the Portsmouth Direct Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Rowlands Castle station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Rowlands Castle station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Rowlands Castle station is
132,580 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,603rd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Rowlands Castle and Liphook than any other pair: 28,698 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: 10 stations instead of 33, a drop of about 70%. Saturday runs to 27.
Nearest other stations
- Warblington 2.7 miles
- Havant 2.8 miles
- Emsworth 2.9 miles
- Bedhampton 3.2 miles
- Southbourne 3.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Rowlands Castle, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Havant New · 2.5 miles
- Langston · 3.8 miles
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Facilities at Rowlands Castle station
Rowlands Castle is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:35 to 09:15 · Saturday: closed · Sunday: closed
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Parking at Rowlands Castle station
- Rowlands Castle Car Park 26 spaces, 1 accessible
£1.00 off-peak, £2.00 a day, £7.90 a week
Cycle parking: 4 spaces (racks).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.
Getting to Rowlands Castle station
Rowlands Castle station is in East Hampshire, South East, and is run by South Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is A3(M) J2 (Dell Piece), 1.9 miles west.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being The Green.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Rowlands Castle 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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