Staplehurst train station

You can reach 39 stations directly from Staplehurst on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Ashford International, with 81 trains a day.

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• 39 direct destinations
• 689th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 723 parking spaces
• 3 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Staplehurst

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

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Lines serving Staplehurst

Staplehurst is on the South Eastern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Staplehurst station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Staplehurst station on 239 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 32 paths on the Wednesday, 57 paths on the Saturday and 35 paths on the Sunday. 5 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 01:00 to 02:00 on the Tuesday, with 6 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Staplehurst station is

731,008 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 689th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Staplehurst and London Bridge than any other pair: 265,886 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: 25 stations instead of 39, a drop of about 36%. Saturday runs to 27.

Nearest other stations

• Marden 2.5 miles
• Headcorn 3.4 miles
• East Farleigh 6.5 miles
• Beltring 6.8 miles
• Maidstone West 7.0 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Staplehurst, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Frittenden Road · 4.3 miles

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Facilities at Staplehurst station

Staplehurst is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Saturday: 08:00 to 14:40 · Sunday: 08:10 to 16:30

Toilets

Parking at Staplehurst station

• Station Car Park 723 spaces, 20 accessible
  £6.50 off-peak, £7.20 a day, £31.00 a week

Cycle parking: 66 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 20 August 2026.

Getting to Staplehurst station

Staplehurst station is in Maidstone, South East, and is run by Southeastern.

The nearest motorway junction is M20 J8 (Hollingbourne), 6.8 miles north-east.

3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Staplehurst 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