Three Bridges train station

Three Bridges is a major interchange: 111 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is East Croydon, with 398 trains a day.

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• 111 direct destinations
• 164th busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 391 parking spaces
• 6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Three Bridges

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

and 71 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Three Bridges

Three Bridges is on the Brighton Main Line and the Arun Valley Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Three Bridges station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Three Bridges station on 112 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 22 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 3 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 11:00 to 12:00 on the Wednesday, with 8 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 Three Bridges station is

3,307,440 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 164th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 1,076,845 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Three Bridges and London Blackfriars than any other pair: 540,368 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: 84 stations instead of 111, a drop of about 24%. Saturday runs to 109.

Nearest other stations

• Crawley 1.2 miles
• Ifield 2.3 miles
• Gatwick Airport 2.7 miles
• Horley 3.5 miles
• Balcombe 4.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Rowfant · 2.2 miles
• Grange Road · 3.6 miles

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Facilities at Three Bridges station

Three Bridges is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:55 to 22:15 · Saturday: 05:55 to 22:15 · Sunday: 06:40 to 20:45

Toilets

Parking at Three Bridges station

• Station Car Park 391 spaces, 9 accessible

Cycle parking: 276 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 25 August 2026.

Getting to Three Bridges station

Three Bridges station is in Crawley, South East, and is run by Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern).

The nearest motorway junction is M23 J10A (Balcombe Road), 1.1 miles south-east.

6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Station Hill.

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

Three Bridges 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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