South Wigston train station
You can reach 23 stations directly from South Wigston on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Birmingham New Street, with 31 trains a day.
Address: LE18 4XU
South Wigston is the nearest station for postcodes in LE18, LE8. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from South Wigston
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham New Street | 31 | 27 | 19 |
| Coleshill Parkway | 31 | 27 | 19 |
| Hinckley | 31 | 27 | 19 |
| Leicester | 31 | 27 | 19 |
| Nuneaton | 31 | 27 | 19 |
| Narborough | 30 | 27 | 19 |
| Water Orton | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| Cambridge | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge South | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Ely | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| March | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Melton Mowbray | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Oakham | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Stamford | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Stansted Airport | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Manea | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ashchurch for Tewkesbury | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Gloucester | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| University | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Whittlesea | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Worcestershire Parkway | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving South Wigston
South Wigston is on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through South Wigston station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside South Wigston station on 289 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 50 paths on the Wednesday, 42 paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 23 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 05:00 to 06:00 on the Tuesday, with 8 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 South Wigston station is
133,846 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,599th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between South Wigston and Birmingham New Street than any other pair: 35,658 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: 6 stations instead of 23, a drop of about 74%. Saturday runs to 7.
Nearest other stations
- Narborough 3.0 miles
- Leicester 3.5 miles
- Syston 8.0 miles
- Sileby 10.3 miles
- Hinckley 10.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of South Wigston, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Glen Parva · 0.2 miles
- Wigston South · 0.3 miles
- Wigston Magna · 0.5 miles
- Blaby · 1.4 miles
- Countesthorpe · 2.0 miles
- Whetstone · 2.1 miles
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Facilities at South Wigston station
South Wigston is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 June 2026.
Getting to South Wigston station
South Wigston station is in Oadby and Wigston, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J21, 2.7 miles west.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Station Approach.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
South Wigston 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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