Swanscombe train station
You can reach 65 stations directly from Swanscombe on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Dartford, with 166 trains a day.
Swanscombe is the nearest station for postcodes in DA10. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Swanscombe
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dartford | 166 | 158 | 135 |
| Greenhithe | 166 | 158 | 135 |
| Gravesend | 166 | 158 | 135 |
| Northfleet | 166 | 158 | 135 |
| Stone Crossing | 166 | 158 | 135 |
| London Bridge | 158 | 150 | 65 |
| Higham | 82 | 80 | 70 |
| Rochester | 82 | 80 | 70 |
| Strood | 82 | 80 | 70 |
| Chatham | 81 | 80 | 70 |
| Gillingham | 81 | 80 | 70 |
| Charing Cross | 79 | 78 | 65 |
| Waterloo East | 79 | 78 | 65 |
| Bexley | 77 | 78 | 65 |
| Crayford | 77 | 78 | 65 |
| Hither Green | 77 | 78 | 65 |
| Lee | 77 | 78 | 65 |
| Mottingham | 77 | 78 | 65 |
| New Eltham | 77 | 78 | 65 |
| Sidcup | 77 | 78 | 65 |
| Abbey Wood | 72 | 72 | 63 |
| Albany Park | 72 | 78 | 65 |
| London Blackfriars | 72 | 72 | 0 |
| Charlton | 72 | 72 | 0 |
| Plumstead | 72 | 72 | 63 |
| Rainham | 72 | 72 | 63 |
| Slade Green | 72 | 72 | 63 |
| St Pancras International | 72 | 72 | 0 |
| Woolwich Arsenal | 72 | 72 | 0 |
| Farringdon | 72 | 72 | 0 |
| Deptford | 70 | 72 | 0 |
| Greenwich | 70 | 72 | 0 |
| Maze Hill | 70 | 72 | 0 |
| Westcombe Park | 70 | 72 | 0 |
| City Thameslink | 69 | 48 | 0 |
| West Hampstead Thameslink | 59 | 1 | 0 |
| Harpenden | 51 | 0 | 0 |
| Luton Airport Parkway | 51 | 0 | 0 |
| Luton | 51 | 0 | 0 |
| St Albans City | 51 | 1 | 0 |
and 25 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Swanscombe
Swanscombe is on the North Kent Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Swanscombe station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Swanscombe station on 449 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 88 paths on the Wednesday, 16 paths on the Saturday and 6 paths on the Sunday. 27 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 03:00 to 04:00 on the Tuesday, with 9 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Swanscombe station is
339,604 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,098th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Swanscombe and Gravesend than any other pair: 64,594 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: 26 stations instead of 65, a drop of about 60%. Saturday runs to 45.
Nearest other stations
- Ebbsfleet International 0.6 miles
- Northfleet 0.6 miles
- Greenhithe 1.4 miles
- Grays 1.9 miles
- Tilbury Town 2.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Swanscombe, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Southfleet · 1.8 miles
- Rosherville Halt · 1.9 miles
- Tilbury Marine · 2.0 miles
- Gravesend West · 2.3 miles
- Tilbury Riverside · 2.3 miles
- Longfield Halt · 3.1 miles
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Facilities at Swanscombe station
Swanscombe is staffed part time, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 12:50 · Saturday: 08:40 to 15:20 · Sunday: closed
Cycle parking: 6 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 August 2026.
Getting to Swanscombe station
Swanscombe station is in Dartford, South East, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M25 J2 (Darenth), 3.4 miles west.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Swanscombe 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