Thetford train station

You can reach 56 stations directly from Thetford on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Norwich, with 67 trains a day.

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• 56 direct destinations
• 1,148th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 34 parking spaces

Direct trains from Thetford

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

and 16 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Thetford

Thetford is on the Breckland Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Thetford station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Thetford station on 60 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 12 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 8 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 Monday, 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Thetford station is

305,618 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,148th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 6 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Thetford and Norwich than any other pair: 95,006 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: 3 stations instead of 56, a drop of about 95%. Saturday runs to 17.

Nearest other stations

• Brandon 5.6 miles
• Harling Road 7.3 miles
• Lakenheath 9.1 miles
• Eccles Road 10.1 miles
• Bury St Edmunds 11.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Thetford Bridge · 0.9 miles
• Barnham · 2.8 miles
• Roudham Junction · 4.0 miles

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Facilities at Thetford station

Thetford is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:00 to 13:30 · Saturday: 07:00 to 13:30 · Sunday: closed

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Thetford station

• Station Car Park 34 spaces, 2 accessible
  £3.85 off-peak, £3.85 a day, £15.00 a week

Cycle parking: 40 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 29 July 2026.

Getting to Thetford station

Thetford station is in Breckland, East of England, and is run by Greater Anglia.

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

Thetford 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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