St Mary Cray train station
You can reach 87 stations directly from St Mary Cray on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bromley South, with 185 trains a day.
St Mary Cray is the nearest station for postcodes in BR5. Check your own postcode.
- 87 direct destinations
- 421st busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 31 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from St Mary Cray
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bromley South | 185 | 189 | 136 |
| Swanley | 185 | 189 | 136 |
| Otford | 134 | 148 | 97 |
| Denmark Hill | 121 | 112 | 100 |
| London Victoria | 107 | 114 | 78 |
| Bellingham | 81 | 75 | 65 |
| Crofton Park | 81 | 75 | 65 |
| London Blackfriars | 78 | 75 | 58 |
| Elephant & Castle | 78 | 75 | 58 |
| Sevenoaks | 77 | 75 | 65 |
| Bickley | 76 | 76 | 65 |
| Bat & Ball | 75 | 75 | 65 |
| Beckenham Hill | 75 | 75 | 65 |
| Catford | 75 | 75 | 65 |
| Eynsford | 75 | 75 | 65 |
| Nunhead | 75 | 75 | 65 |
| Peckham Rye | 75 | 75 | 65 |
| Ravensbourne | 75 | 75 | 65 |
| Shoreham | 75 | 75 | 65 |
| Shortlands | 75 | 76 | 65 |
| Ashford International | 57 | 45 | 32 |
| Barming | 57 | 39 | 32 |
| Borough Green & Wrotham | 57 | 73 | 32 |
| East Malling | 57 | 39 | 32 |
| Maidstone East | 57 | 73 | 32 |
| West Malling | 57 | 73 | 32 |
| Bearsted | 55 | 45 | 32 |
| Lenham | 54 | 44 | 32 |
| Charing | 52 | 43 | 31 |
| Hollingbourne | 52 | 43 | 31 |
| Harrietsham | 52 | 43 | 31 |
| Longfield | 50 | 40 | 39 |
| Meopham | 50 | 40 | 39 |
| Rochester | 50 | 40 | 39 |
| Chatham | 49 | 40 | 2 |
| Farningham Road | 49 | 40 | 39 |
| Gillingham | 49 | 40 | 2 |
| Sole Street | 48 | 39 | 38 |
| Kemsing | 37 | 36 | 0 |
| City Thameslink | 24 | 0 | 0 |
and 47 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving St Mary Cray
St Mary Cray is on the Chatham Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through St Mary Cray station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside St Mary Cray station on 438 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 70 paths on the Wednesday, 62 paths on the Saturday and 30 paths on the Sunday. 11 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 19:00 to 20:00 on the Friday, 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 St Mary Cray station is
1,334,744 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 421st busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between St Mary Cray and London Victoria than any other pair: 542,070 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 87, a drop of about 56%. Saturday runs to 69.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, St Mary Cray loses 6 destinations including Paddock Wood, Pluckley, Headcorn, Staplehurst, Marden, Tonbridge.
Nearest other stations
- Petts Wood 1.4 miles
- Orpington 1.6 miles
- Chislehurst 2.2 miles
- Chelsfield 2.6 miles
- Bickley 2.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of St Mary Cray, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Lullingstone · 4.2 miles
- Eltham Park · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at St Mary Cray station
St Mary Cray is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 19:30 · Saturday: 06:10 to 19:30 · Sunday: 08:15 to 16:40
Toilets
Parking at St Mary Cray station
- Station Car Park 31 spaces, 3 accessible
£6.50 off-peak, £7.20 a day, £31.30 a week
From National Rail's station record, last updated 23 July 2026.
Getting to St Mary Cray station
St Mary Cray station is in Bromley, London, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M20 J1 (Swanley), 3.5 miles east.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Amherst Close.
St Mary Cray is inside the London Travelcard area.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
St Mary Cray 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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