Swindon train station

You can reach 68 stations directly from Swindon on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is London Paddington, with 173 trains a day.

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Address: Swindon, SN1 1BY

Swindon is the nearest station for postcodes in SN1, SN2, SN38, SN3, SN5, SN25, SN4, SN26, SN6, SN7. Check your own postcode.

68 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.

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
London Paddington	173	146	109
Reading	171	146	109
Didcot Parkway	100	101	65
Chippenham	98	95	48
Bristol Temple Meads	86	81	33
Bath Spa	84	81	33
Bristol Parkway	63	46	41
Cardiff Central	60	40	28
Newport	60	40	30
Bridgend	42	37	28
Neath	42	37	28
Port Talbot Parkway	42	37	28
Swansea	42	37	28
Gloucester	39	34	28
Kemble	38	34	28
Stonehouse	38	34	28
Stroud	38	34	28
Cheltenham Spa	36	0	0
Taunton	29	12	17
Westbury	24	14	30
Exeter St Davids	23	5	17
Newton Abbot	22	1	16
Tiverton Parkway	18	3	17
Nailsea and Backwell	17	14	6
Plymouth	17	1	16
Worle	17	11	6
Yatton	17	18	7
Oxford	16	15	0
Weston-super-Mare	16	26	8
Melksham	14	14	14
Totnes	14	1	16
Trowbridge	14	14	14
Carmarthen	11	2	0
Llanelli	11	2	0
Pembrey and Burry Port	11	2	0
Castle Cary	10	0	20
Dawlish	8	1	3
Teignmouth	8	1	3
Bodmin Parkway	6	1	9
Bridgwater	6	11	0

and 28 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 793 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 151 paths on the Wednesday, 48 paths on the Saturday and 13 paths on the Sunday. 122 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 Tuesday, with 13 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 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.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Swindon gains 5 destinations including Romsey, Southampton Central, Dilton Marsh, Salisbury, Warminster and loses 7 including Torquay, Torre, Menheniot, Devonport, Castle Cary, Paignton.