Stansted Airport train station
You can reach 49 stations directly from Stansted Airport on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Liverpool Street, with 148 trains a day.
See Stansted Airport on the map
Stansted Airport is the nearest station for postcodes in CM22, CM6. Check your own postcode.
- 49 direct destinations
- 50th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 5,000 parking spaces
- 39 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Stansted Airport
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Liverpool Street | 148 | 151 | 146 |
| Tottenham Hale | 146 | 147 | 142 |
| Harlow Town | 96 | 77 | 80 |
| Bishop's Stortford | 90 | 77 | 91 |
| Cambridge | 64 | 122 | 35 |
| Cambridge South | 64 | 122 | 35 |
| Ely | 52 | 0 | 0 |
| Stansted Mountfitchet | 38 | 38 | 37 |
| Birmingham New Street | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Coleshill Parkway | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Leicester | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| March | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Melton Mowbray | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Nuneaton | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Oakham | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Stamford | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Audley End | 28 | 115 | 30 |
| Whittlesford Parkway | 25 | 114 | 30 |
| Cheshunt | 22 | 1 | 23 |
| Attleborough | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Brandon | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridge North | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Norwich | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Thetford | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Wymondham | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Manea | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Narborough | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Hinckley | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Whittlesea | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Broxbourne | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| Sawbridgeworth | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| South Wigston | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Ashchurch for Tewkesbury | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Brundall | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Parkway | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cantley | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Eccles Road | 1 | 0 | 0 |
and 9 more stations, each served less often.
Freight through Stansted Airport station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Stansted Airport station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Stansted Airport station is
10,090,904 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 50th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 2,276 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Stansted Airport and London Liverpool Street than any other pair: 6,465,414 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: 14 stations instead of 49, a drop of about 71%. Saturday runs to 16.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Stansted Airport gains 1 destination including Seven Sisters.
Nearest other stations
- Elsenham 2.6 miles
- Stansted Mountfitchet 2.8 miles
- Bishop's Stortford 4.4 miles
- Newport 6.6 miles
- Sawbridgeworth 6.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Stansted Airport, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Gates 20-39 · 0.3 miles
- Gates 1-19 · 0.3 miles
- Takeley · 1.6 miles
- Stane Street Halt · 1.6 miles
- Mill Road Halt · 2.5 miles
- Henham Halt · 2.9 miles
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Facilities at Stansted Airport station
Stansted Airport is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 00:00 · Saturday: 06:30 to 00:00 · Sunday: 06:30 to 00:00
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Stansted Airport station
- Station Car Park 5,000 spaces
From National Rail's station record, last updated 6 August 2026.
Getting to Stansted Airport station
Stansted Airport station is in Uttlesford, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.
The nearest motorway junction is M11 J8 (Birchanger Green), 2.7 miles west.
39 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Coach Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Stansted Airport 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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