Thatcham train station
You can reach 19 stations directly from Thatcham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Newbury, with 83 trains a day.
Thatcham is the nearest station for postcodes in RG19, RG18. Check your own postcode.
- 19 direct destinations
- 903rd busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 55 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Thatcham
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newbury | 83 | 68 | 33 |
| Reading | 83 | 68 | 33 |
| Theale | 83 | 68 | 33 |
| Reading West | 46 | 40 | 17 |
| Aldermaston | 44 | 40 | 18 |
| Midgham | 43 | 40 | 18 |
| Newbury Racecourse | 43 | 40 | 17 |
| London Paddington | 36 | 27 | 0 |
| Bedwyn | 11 | 3 | 16 |
| Hungerford | 10 | 3 | 16 |
| Kintbury | 10 | 3 | 16 |
| Twyford | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Pewsey | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Westbury | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Frome | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Maidenhead | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Bradford-on-Avon | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Trowbridge | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Thatcham
Thatcham is on the Reading to Taunton Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Thatcham station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Thatcham station on 163 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 31 paths on the Wednesday, 17 paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 10 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 02:00 to 03:00 on the Tuesday, with 6 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 Thatcham station is
464,916 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 903rd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Thatcham and London Paddington than any other pair: 179,180 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: 10 stations instead of 19, a drop of about 47%. Saturday runs to 11.
Nearest other stations
- Midgham 2.8 miles
- Newbury Racecourse 2.8 miles
- Newbury 3.5 miles
- Aldermaston 4.6 miles
- Theale 7.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Thatcham, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Hermitage · 4.1 miles
- Newbury West Fields Halt · 4.2 miles
- Speen · 4.6 miles
- Pinewood Halt · 4.6 miles
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Facilities at Thatcham station
Thatcham is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 12:30 · Saturday: 06:50 to 13:20 · Sunday: closed
Parking at Thatcham station
- Station Car Park 55 spaces, 2 accessible
Cycle parking: 53 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 August 2026.
Getting to Thatcham station
Thatcham station is in West Berkshire, South East, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M4 J13 (Chieveley Interchange), 4.8 miles north-west.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Thatcham Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Thatcham 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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