Stowmarket train station

You can reach 28 stations directly from Stowmarket on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Ipswich, with 123 trains a day.

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• 28 direct destinations
• 551st busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 328 parking spaces
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Stowmarket

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

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Lines serving Stowmarket

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

Freight through Stowmarket station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Stowmarket station on 608 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 117 paths on the Wednesday, 73 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 32 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 16:00 to 17:00 on the Tuesday, with 10 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.

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

How busy Stowmarket station is

975,908 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 551st busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 81,458 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Stowmarket and London Liverpool Street than any other pair: 278,238 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: 19 stations instead of 28, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 23.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Stowmarket loses 1 destination including Marks Tey.

Nearest other stations

• Needham Market 3.5 miles
• Elmswell 5.0 miles
• Thurston 9.1 miles
• Westerfield 10.3 miles
• Ipswich 11.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Haughley · 2.3 miles
• Haughley Road · 3.1 miles

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Facilities at Stowmarket station

Stowmarket is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:15 to 19:30 · Saturday: 07:20 to 16:30 · Sunday: 09:15 to 18:30

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Stowmarket station

• Station Car Park 328 spaces, 19 accessible
  £1.20 an hour, £5.70 off-peak, £8.00 a day, £32.00 a week

Cycle parking: 88 spaces (sheltered, lockers).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 July 2026.

Getting to Stowmarket station

Stowmarket station is in Mid Suffolk, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.

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

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

Stowmarket 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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