Wellingborough train station
You can reach 16 stations directly from Wellingborough on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is St Pancras International, with 76 trains a day.
Wellingborough is the nearest station for postcodes in NN8, NN29, NN10, NN9. Check your own postcode.
- 16 direct destinations
- 546th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 526 parking spaces
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Wellingborough
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Pancras International | 76 | 72 | 56 |
| Kettering | 74 | 70 | 56 |
| Bedford | 71 | 70 | 56 |
| Luton Airport Parkway | 71 | 68 | 56 |
| Corby | 70 | 67 | 34 |
| Luton | 70 | 68 | 44 |
| Leicester | 6 | 3 | 20 |
| Derby | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| East Midlands Parkway | 3 | 3 | 19 |
| Loughborough | 3 | 3 | 19 |
| Market Harborough | 3 | 2 | 20 |
| Nottingham | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| Beeston | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| Chesterfield | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Sheffield | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Long Eaton | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Lines serving Wellingborough
Wellingborough is on the Midland Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Wellingborough station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Wellingborough station on 640 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 123 paths on the Wednesday, 49 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 49 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 17:00 to 18:00 on the Friday, with 12 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 Wellingborough station is
980,522 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 546th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 4,805 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Wellingborough and London St Pancras International than any other pair: 509,210 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.
Nearest other stations
- Kettering 6.6 miles
- Northampton 10.8 miles
- Corby 12.8 miles
- Bedford 14.3 miles
- Bedford St Johns 14.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Wellingborough, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Wellingborough Aggregates Terminal · 1.0 miles
- Wellingborough London Road · 1.0 miles
- Ditchford · 1.7 miles
- Irchester · 2.2 miles
- Finedon · 3.1 miles
- Rushden · 3.4 miles
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Facilities at Wellingborough station
Wellingborough is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:10 to 22:15 · Sunday: 07:45 to 22:15
Toilets
Parking at Wellingborough station
- Station Car Park 526 spaces, 10 accessible
£12.10 a day, £36.30 a week
Cycle parking: 42 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 August 2026.
Getting to Wellingborough station
Wellingborough station is in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J15, 12.3 miles south-west.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rail Station Forecourt.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Wellingborough 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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