Soham train station
You can reach 14 stations directly from Soham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bury St Edmunds, with 16 trains a day.
Address: Station Road, Soham, CB7 5DY
Soham is the nearest station for postcodes in CB7. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Soham
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Ely | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Ipswich | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| March | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Manea | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Stowmarket | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Whittlesea | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Colchester | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Manningtree | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Elmswell | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kennett | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Needham Market | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Thurston | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Freight through Soham station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Soham station on 626 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 122 paths on the Wednesday, 70 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 28 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 17:00 to 18:00 on the Tuesday, 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 Soham station is
65,796 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,941st busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Soham and Ely than any other pair: 19,896 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
There is no Sunday service from Soham. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.
Nearest other stations
- Ely 4.6 miles
- Newmarket 7.5 miles
- Waterbeach 7.5 miles
- Shippea Hill 7.5 miles
- Kennett 7.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Soham, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Fordham · 2.9 miles
- Isleham · 3.7 miles
- Exning Road Halt · 4.6 miles
- Burwell · 4.7 miles
- Stretham · 4.8 miles
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Facilities at Soham station
Soham is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
Parking at Soham station
- Station Car Park 46 spaces, 5 accessible
£3.00 a day
Cycle parking: 30 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 July 2026.
Getting to Soham station
Soham station is in East Cambridgeshire, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.
The nearest motorway junction is M11 J14 (Girton), 13.0 miles south-west.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Soham 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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