Taunton train station
Taunton is a major interchange: 112 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Exeter St Davids, with 141 trains a day.
Address: Station Approach, Taunton, TA1 1QP
Taunton is the nearest station for postcodes in TA1, TA2, TA3, TA4, TA23. Check your own postcode.
- 112 direct destinations
- 341st busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 384 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Taunton
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exeter St Davids | 141 | 95 | 90 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 114 | 75 | 76 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 113 | 81 | 68 |
| Newton Abbot | 112 | 69 | 72 |
| Plymouth | 96 | 62 | 65 |
| Totnes | 88 | 59 | 65 |
| London Paddington | 78 | 47 | 45 |
| Reading | 78 | 47 | 45 |
| Bridgwater | 49 | 47 | 28 |
| Weston-super-Mare | 49 | 47 | 31 |
| Yatton | 47 | 44 | 28 |
| Highbridge and Burnham | 46 | 46 | 28 |
| Nailsea and Backwell | 45 | 43 | 28 |
| Worle | 45 | 41 | 28 |
| Bodmin Parkway | 42 | 22 | 26 |
| Liskeard | 42 | 22 | 26 |
| Penzance | 42 | 22 | 26 |
| Redruth | 42 | 22 | 26 |
| St Austell | 42 | 22 | 26 |
| Truro | 42 | 22 | 26 |
| Par | 40 | 22 | 23 |
| Camborne | 38 | 22 | 23 |
| Bristol Parkway | 36 | 30 | 27 |
| St Erth | 36 | 21 | 26 |
| Birmingham New Street | 33 | 1 | 5 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 33 | 1 | 5 |
| Filton Abbey Wood | 31 | 27 | 20 |
| Cardiff Central | 29 | 26 | 20 |
| Newport | 29 | 26 | 20 |
| Severn Tunnel Junction | 29 | 26 | 19 |
| Swindon | 29 | 12 | 17 |
| Patchway | 28 | 26 | 17 |
| Derby | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| Dawlish | 25 | 12 | 12 |
| Teignmouth | 25 | 12 | 12 |
| Chesterfield | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Leeds | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Sheffield | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Wakefield Westgate | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Saltash | 23 | 7 | 4 |
and 72 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Taunton
Taunton is on the Bristol to Exeter Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Taunton station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Taunton station on 55 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 11 paths on the Wednesday, 3 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 5 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 12:00 to 13:00 on the Tuesday, with 3 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 Taunton station is
1,615,614 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 341st busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 82,424 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Taunton and London Paddington than any other pair: 307,892 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: 73 stations instead of 112, a drop of about 35%. Saturday runs to 77.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Taunton gains 11 destinations including Leuchars, Cupar, Ladybank, Markinch, Dundee, Aberdeen and loses 1 including Keynsham.
Nearest other stations
- Bridgwater 8.7 miles
- Tiverton Parkway 13.4 miles
- Highbridge and Burnham 14.6 miles
- Honiton 16.1 miles
- Axminster 17.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Taunton, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Norton Fitzwarren · 2.0 miles
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Facilities at Taunton station
Taunton is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 19:00 · Saturday: 06:30 to 19:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 19:00
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Taunton station
- Station Car Park 384 spaces, 20 accessible
Cycle parking: 82 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 August 2026.
Getting to Taunton station
Taunton station is in Somerset, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J25 (Blackbrook Interchange), 1.7 miles east.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Taunton Rail Station Stop 1 South Side.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Taunton 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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