Thornton Abbey train station
You can reach 13 stations directly from Thornton Abbey on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Barton-on-Humber, with 16 trains a day.
Direct trains from Thornton Abbey
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barton-on-Humber | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Barrow Haven | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Cleethorpes | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Great Coates | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Grimsby Town | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Goxhill | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Habrough | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Healing | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| New Holland | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Stallingborough | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Ulceby | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Grimsby Docks | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| New Clee | 5 | 6 | 0 |
Lines serving Thornton Abbey
Thornton Abbey is on the Barton Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Thornton Abbey station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Thornton Abbey station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Thornton Abbey station is
724 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,558th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Thornton Abbey and Barton-On-Humber than any other pair: 276 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 Thornton Abbey. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.
Nearest other stations
- Goxhill 1.7 miles
- Ulceby 2.6 miles
- New Holland 3.6 miles
- Habrough 4.0 miles
- Barrow Haven 4.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Thornton Abbey, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Thornton Curtis · 0.5 miles
- Ulceby Aerodrome Platform · 2.2 miles
- East Halton · 2.2 miles
- Killingholme Admiralty Platform · 3.2 miles
- Brocklesby · 3.3 miles
- New Holland Town · 3.8 miles
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Facilities at Thornton Abbey station
Thornton Abbey is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Cycle parking: 3 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 June 2026.
Getting to Thornton Abbey station
Thornton Abbey station is in North Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by East Midlands Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M180 J5 (Barnetby Top), 5.7 miles south-west.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Thornton Abbey 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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