Sandling train station
You can reach 48 stations directly from Sandling on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Ashford International, with 47 trains a day.
Sandling is the nearest station for postcodes in CT21. Check your own postcode.
- 48 direct destinations
- 1,884th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 126 parking spaces
- 1 bus stop nearby
Direct trains from Sandling
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashford International | 47 | 73 | 31 |
| Folkestone Central | 47 | 73 | 31 |
| Folkestone West | 47 | 73 | 31 |
| Westenhanger | 47 | 73 | 31 |
| Dover Priory | 46 | 73 | 31 |
| Headcorn | 37 | 71 | 27 |
| Marden | 37 | 71 | 27 |
| Paddock Wood | 37 | 71 | 27 |
| Staplehurst | 37 | 71 | 27 |
| Tonbridge | 37 | 71 | 27 |
| London Bridge | 36 | 35 | 27 |
| Sevenoaks | 36 | 70 | 27 |
| Charing Cross | 32 | 35 | 27 |
| Waterloo East | 32 | 35 | 27 |
| Pluckley | 24 | 2 | 2 |
| Deal | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| Martin Mill | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| Ramsgate | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| Sandwich | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| Walmer | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| Thanet Parkway | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| London Cannon Street | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Hildenborough | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Birchington-on-Sea | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Barming | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bromley South | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Borough Green & Wrotham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bearsted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Broadstairs | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Charing | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Chestfield & Swalecliffe | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumpton Park | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| East Malling | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Faversham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hollingbourne | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Herne Bay | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Harrietsham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Lenham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Margate | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Maidstone East | 1 | 0 | 0 |
and 8 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Sandling
Sandling is on the South Eastern Main Line and the High Speed 1, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Sandling station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Sandling station on 87 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 17 paths on the Wednesday, 9 paths on the Saturday and 1 path 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 18:00 to 19:00 on the Monday, 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 Sandling station is
75,282 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,884th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Sandling and London St Pancras International than any other pair: 18,994 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: 15 stations instead of 48, a drop of about 69%. Saturday runs to 21.
Nearest other stations
- Westenhanger 1.2 miles
- Folkestone West 3.8 miles
- Folkestone Central 4.5 miles
- Wye 8.8 miles
- Ashford International 9.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Sandling, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Hythe · 1.5 miles
- Dollands Moor Freight Yard · 1.6 miles
- Prince of Wales Halt · 1.8 miles
- Lyminge · 2.7 miles
- Sandgate · 2.7 miles
- Botolph's Bridge Halt · 2.8 miles
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Facilities at Sandling station
Sandling is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:20 to 13:00 · Saturday: closed · Sunday: closed
Parking at Sandling station
- Station Car Park 126 spaces, 3 accessible
£4.40 off-peak, £4.80 a day, £20.50 a week
Cycle parking: 4 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 August 2026.
Getting to Sandling station
Sandling station is in Folkestone and Hythe, South East, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M20 J11 (Stanford), 0.4 miles north-west.
1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Sandling 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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