Syston train station

You can reach 20 stations directly from Syston on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Loughborough, with 34 trains a day.

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• 20 direct destinations
• 1,354th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 56 parking spaces
• 7 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Syston

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

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Lines serving Syston

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

Freight through Syston station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Syston station on 570 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 104 paths on the Wednesday, 67 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 66 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 01:00 to 02:00 on the Tuesday, with 9 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 Syston station is

213,180 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,354th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Syston and Leicester than any other pair: 88,170 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

There is no Sunday service from Syston. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.

Nearest other stations

• Sileby 2.8 miles
• Leicester 4.6 miles
• Barrow-upon-Soar 4.6 miles
• Loughborough 7.6 miles
• South Wigston 8.0 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Cossington Gate · 1.7 miles
• Rearsby · 3.1 miles
• Humberstone · 3.6 miles
• Leicester Belgrave Road · 3.8 miles
• Swithland · 3.8 miles
• Humberstone Road · 3.9 miles

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Facilities at Syston station

Syston is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Syston station

• Station Car Park. (Pay by RingGO available) www.myringgo.co.uk/parkinglocator/23326 56 spaces, 4 accessible
  £1.70 off-peak, £2.80 a day, £8.40 a week

Cycle parking: 14 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 August 2026.

Getting to Syston station

Syston station is in Charnwood, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J21A, 7.0 miles south-west.

7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Station Approach.

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

Syston 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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