Sunderland train station

You can reach 48 stations directly from Sunderland on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Hartlepool, with 75 trains a day.

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• 48 direct destinations
• 705th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 20 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Sunderland

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

and 8 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Sunderland

Sunderland is on the Durham Coast Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Sunderland station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Sunderland station on 109 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 20 paths on the Wednesday, 10 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 15 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 10:00 to 11:00 on the Monday, with 3 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 Sunderland station is

709,098 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 705th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 5,702 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Sunderland and Newcastle than any other pair: 154,454 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: 32 stations instead of 48, a drop of about 33%. Saturday runs to 48.

Nearest other stations

• Seaham 4.8 miles
• Heworth 7.6 miles
• Chester-le-Street 8.6 miles
• Manors 10.0 miles
• Newcastle 10.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Fawcett Street · 0.2 miles
• Park Lane · 0.3 miles
• St Peter's · 0.3 miles
• Monkwearmouth Station Museum · 0.4 miles
• University · 0.4 miles
• Wearmouth · 0.7 miles

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Facilities at Sunderland station

Sunderland is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:15 to 18:00 · Saturday: 06:15 to 18:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 17:00

Toilets

From National Rail's station record, last updated 10 September 2026.

Getting to Sunderland station

Sunderland station is in Sunderland, North East, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is A194(M) J3, 6.0 miles north-west.

20 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Fawcett Street.

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

Sunderland 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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