Salfords train station

You can reach 60 stations directly from Salfords on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Earlswood, with 91 trains a day.

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• 60 direct destinations
• 1,520th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 27 parking spaces

Direct trains from Salfords

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

and 20 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Salfords

Salfords is on the Brighton Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Salfords station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Salfords station on 169 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 36 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 3 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 11:00 to 12:00 on the Wednesday, with 9 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 Salfords station is

158,338 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,520th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Salfords and London Bridge than any other pair: 26,194 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: 27 stations instead of 60, a drop of about 55%. Saturday runs to 56.

Nearest other stations

• Earlswood 1.8 miles
• Nutfield 2.2 miles
• Horley 2.3 miles
• Redhill 2.6 miles
• Gatwick Airport 3.1 miles

Facilities at Salfords station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 10:35 · Saturday: closed · Sunday: closed

Toilets

Parking at Salfords station

• Station Car Park 27 spaces, 1 accessible

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.

Getting to Salfords station

Salfords station is in Reigate and Banstead, South East, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).

The nearest motorway junction is M23 J9A (Airport Way Roundabout East), 3.0 miles south.

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

Salfords 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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