Swaythling train station
You can reach 36 stations directly from Swaythling on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Romsey, with 72 trains a day.
Address: SO18 2LB
- 36 direct destinations
- 1,890th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 10 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Swaythling
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romsey | 72 | 72 | 60 |
| Eastleigh | 46 | 39 | 30 |
| St Denys | 46 | 39 | 30 |
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 46 | 39 | 30 |
| Southampton Central | 46 | 39 | 30 |
| Salisbury | 37 | 37 | 29 |
| Chandler's Ford | 36 | 36 | 30 |
| Mottisfont & Dunbridge | 36 | 36 | 28 |
| Dean | 36 | 36 | 28 |
| Millbrook | 36 | 36 | 30 |
| Redbridge | 37 | 36 | 30 |
| Basingstoke | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| Micheldever | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Shawford | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| Winchester | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| Ashurst New Forest | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Brockenhurst | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Brookwood | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Bournemouth | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Branksome | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Christchurch | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Clapham Junction | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Dorchester South | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Fleet | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Farnborough (Main) | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Hamworthy | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Hinton Admiral | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Hook | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Moreton | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| New Milton | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Parkstone | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pokesdown | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Poole | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Surbiton | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Sway | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Totton | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Upwey | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Walton-on-Thames | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| London Waterloo | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Weymouth | 0 | 1 | 0 |
and 5 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Swaythling
Swaythling is on the South West Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Swaythling station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Swaythling station on 543 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 98 paths on the Wednesday, 65 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 70 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 13:00 to 14:00 on the Tuesday, with 11 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Swaythling station is
74,572 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,890th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Swaythling and Eastleigh than any other pair: 11,964 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: 11 stations instead of 36, a drop of about 69%. Saturday runs to 45.
Nearest other stations
- Southampton Airport Parkway 0.9 miles
- St Denys 1.4 miles
- Bitterne 1.6 miles
- Eastleigh 2.2 miles
- Southampton Central 2.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Swaythling, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Portswood closed 1866 · 1.2 miles
- Northam · 2.5 miles
- Southampton Terminus · 3.1 miles
- Nursling · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Swaythling station
Swaythling is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 11:00 · Saturday: closed · Sunday: closed
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Parking at Swaythling station
- Swaythling Car Park 10 spaces, 1 accessible
£1.00 an hour, £1.30 off-peak, £2.60 a day, £10.30 a week
Cycle parking: 14 spaces (sheltered, racks).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.
Getting to Swaythling station
Swaythling station is in Southampton, South East, and is run by South Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M27 J5 (Stoneham), 0.6 miles north-east.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Swaythling Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Swaythling 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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