St Austell train station
You can reach 81 stations directly from St Austell on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Truro, with 84 trains a day.
St Austell is the nearest station for postcodes in PL25, PL26. Check your own postcode.
- 81 direct destinations
- 842nd busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 79 parking spaces
- 8 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from St Austell
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truro | 84 | 56 | 54 |
| Penzance | 83 | 55 | 54 |
| Bodmin Parkway | 82 | 55 | 54 |
| Liskeard | 82 | 55 | 54 |
| Par | 82 | 56 | 50 |
| Plymouth | 82 | 55 | 54 |
| Redruth | 82 | 55 | 54 |
| Camborne | 79 | 55 | 51 |
| St Erth | 76 | 54 | 54 |
| Saltash | 63 | 40 | 27 |
| Exeter St Davids | 60 | 35 | 40 |
| Newton Abbot | 60 | 35 | 40 |
| Hayle | 59 | 44 | 33 |
| Lostwithiel | 55 | 37 | 30 |
| Totnes | 55 | 34 | 39 |
| St Germans | 49 | 36 | 27 |
| Taunton | 42 | 22 | 26 |
| London Paddington | 39 | 17 | 24 |
| Reading | 39 | 17 | 24 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 32 | 19 | 25 |
| Ivybridge | 25 | 15 | 14 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 24 | 6 | 10 |
| Menheniot | 17 | 14 | 8 |
| Devonport | 15 | 10 | 5 |
| Dawlish | 12 | 13 | 11 |
| Teignmouth | 12 | 13 | 11 |
| St Budeaux Ferry Road | 9 | 8 | 4 |
| Keyham | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| Dockyard | 7 | 6 | 2 |
| Swindon | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| Bath Spa | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Chippenham | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Didcot Parkway | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Birmingham New Street | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Parkway | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Bridgwater | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Chesterfield | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Darlington | 2 | 0 | 0 |
and 41 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving St Austell
St Austell is on the Cornish Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through St Austell station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside St Austell station on 40 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 9 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 10 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 12:00 to 13:00 on the Thursday, 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 St Austell station is
525,828 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 842nd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between St Austell and Truro than any other pair: 127,812 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: 38 stations instead of 81, a drop of about 53%. Saturday runs to 44.
Nearest other stations
- Par 3.9 miles
- Luxulyan 3.9 miles
- Bugle 4.2 miles
- Roche 5.8 miles
- Lostwithiel 7.2 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of St Austell, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- St Blazey · 3.7 miles
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Facilities at St Austell station
St Austell is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:30 to 19:00 · Saturday: 07:30 to 19:00 · Sunday: 09:45 to 16:45
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at St Austell station
- Station Car Park 79 spaces, 7 accessible
Cycle parking: 25 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 22 June 2026.
Getting to St Austell station
St Austell station is in Cornwall, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Bus Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
St Austell 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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