Swindon train station

You can reach 66 stations directly from Swindon on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Paddington, with 164 trains a day.

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• 66 direct destinations
• 170th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 591 parking spaces
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Swindon

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

and 26 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Swindon

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

Freight through Swindon station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Swindon station on 575 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 112 paths on the Wednesday, 37 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 71 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 15:00 to 16:00 on the Monday, with 11 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 Swindon station is

3,150,912 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 170th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 234,297 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Swindon and London Paddington than any other pair: 1,012,382 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: 52 stations instead of 66, a drop of about 21%. Saturday runs to 54.

Nearest other stations

• Kemble 12.8 miles
• Bedwyn 15.2 miles
• Pewsey 15.5 miles
• Hungerford 15.7 miles
• Chippenham 15.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Swindon Town · 1.2 miles
• Rushey Platt · 1.4 miles
• Stratton · 2.0 miles
• Moredon Halt · 2.2 miles
• Stratton Park Halt · 2.2 miles
• Mouldon Hill · 2.6 miles

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Facilities at Swindon station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 20:30 · Saturday: 06:30 to 19:30 · Sunday: 08:00 to 20:00

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Parking at Swindon station

• Station Car Park 591 spaces, 8 accessible

Cycle parking: 197 spaces (racks).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.

Getting to Swindon station

Swindon station is in Swindon, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M4 J16 (Spittleborough), 3.0 miles south-west.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rail Station.

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

Swindon 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