West Malling train station
You can reach 33 stations directly from West Malling on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Borough Green & Wrotham, with 109 trains a day.
Address: ME19 6HJ
West Malling is the nearest station for postcodes in ME19. Check your own postcode.
- 33 direct destinations
- 588th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 164 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from West Malling
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borough Green & Wrotham | 109 | 107 | 32 |
| Maidstone East | 109 | 107 | 32 |
| Otford | 109 | 107 | 32 |
| Swanley | 109 | 107 | 32 |
| Ashford International | 72 | 51 | 32 |
| Bearsted | 72 | 51 | 32 |
| Lenham | 70 | 50 | 32 |
| Charing | 68 | 49 | 31 |
| Hollingbourne | 68 | 49 | 31 |
| Harrietsham | 68 | 49 | 31 |
| Barming | 63 | 39 | 32 |
| Bromley South | 63 | 73 | 32 |
| East Malling | 63 | 39 | 32 |
| London Victoria | 61 | 73 | 32 |
| St Mary Cray | 57 | 73 | 32 |
| Charing Cross | 46 | 34 | 0 |
| London Bridge | 46 | 34 | 0 |
| Waterloo East | 46 | 34 | 0 |
| Kemsing | 38 | 36 | 0 |
| Canterbury West | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Chilham | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Chartham | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Minster | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Sturry | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Wye | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| London Blackfriars | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Elephant & Castle | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ramsgate | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Folkestone Central | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Folkestone West | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sandling | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Thanet Parkway | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Westenhanger | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving West Malling
West Malling is on the Kent Downs Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through West Malling station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside West Malling station on 404 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 64 paths on the Wednesday, 56 paths on the Saturday and 30 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 03:00 to 04:00 on the Tuesday, with 7 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 West Malling station is
896,670 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 588th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between West Malling and London Bridge than any other pair: 281,280 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: 15 stations instead of 33, a drop of about 55%. Saturday runs to 19.
Nearest other stations
- East Malling 1.0 miles
- New Hythe 2.1 miles
- Aylesford 2.1 miles
- Barming 2.7 miles
- Snodland 2.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of West Malling, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Teston Crossing Halt · 2.9 miles
- Tovil · 4.3 miles
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Facilities at West Malling station
West Malling is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Saturday: 07:30 to 14:10 · Sunday: 08:15 to 15:30
Toilets
Parking at West Malling station
- Station Car Park 164 spaces, 8 accessible
£6.30 off-peak, £7.00 a day, £29.30 a week
Cycle parking: 64 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 August 2026.
Getting to West Malling station
West Malling station is in Tonbridge and Malling, South East, and is run by Southeastern.
The nearest motorway junction is M20 J4 (Leybourne), 1.2 miles north-east.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
West Malling 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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