Seaham train station

You can reach 48 stations directly from Seaham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Hartlepool, with 45 trains a day.

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• 48 direct destinations
• 1,504th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 9 parking spaces
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Seaham

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

and 8 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Seaham

Seaham is on the Durham Coast Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Seaham station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Seaham station on 141 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 25 paths on the Wednesday, 11 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 17 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 07:00 to 08:00 on the Thursday, with 5 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 Seaham station is

164,994 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,504th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Seaham and Newcastle than any other pair: 77,636 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: 32 stations instead of 48, a drop of about 33%. Saturday runs to 48.

Nearest other stations

• Sunderland 4.8 miles
• Horden 5.4 miles
• Chester-le-Street 9.3 miles
• Durham 10.2 miles
• Heworth 11.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Seaham, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Seaham Harbour · 0.3 miles
• Seaham Hall Dene · 0.7 miles
• Ryhope East · 2.0 miles
• Ryhope · 2.1 miles
• Murton · 2.8 miles
• South Hetton · 3.8 miles

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Facilities at Seaham station

Seaham is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Seaham station

• Station Car Park 9 spaces

Cycle parking: 4 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 July 2026.

Getting to Seaham station

Seaham station is in County Durham, North East, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J62 (Carrville Interchange), 7.7 miles west.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Habour Walk-Rail Station.

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

Seaham 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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