Westenhanger train station

You can reach 48 stations directly from Westenhanger on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Ashford International, with 47 trains a day.

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• 48 direct destinations
• 1,960th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 10 parking spaces
• 1 bus stop nearby

Direct trains from Westenhanger

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

and 8 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Westenhanger

Westenhanger is on the South Eastern Main Line and the High Speed 1, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Westenhanger station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Westenhanger station on 632 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 94 paths on the Wednesday, 111 paths on the Saturday and 72 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 23:00 to 00:00 on the Wednesday, 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.

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

How busy Westenhanger station is

62,914 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,960th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Westenhanger and London St Pancras International than any other pair: 15,430 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 48, a drop of about 69%. Saturday runs to 21.

Nearest other stations

• Sandling 1.2 miles
• Folkestone West 5.1 miles
• Folkestone Central 5.7 miles
• Ashford International 7.8 miles
• Wye 7.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Prince of Wales Halt · 2.2 miles
• Botolph's Bridge Halt · 2.7 miles
• Hythe · 2.7 miles
• Dollands Moor Freight Yard · 2.8 miles
• Lyminge · 3.2 miles
• Smeeth · 3.8 miles

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Facilities at Westenhanger station

Westenhanger is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Waiting room

Parking at Westenhanger station

• Station Car Park 10 spaces, 1 accessible
  free

From National Rail's station record, last updated 20 August 2026.

Getting to Westenhanger station

Westenhanger station is in Folkestone and Hythe, South East, and is run by Southeastern.

The nearest motorway junction is M20 J11 (Stanford), 0.2 miles north-east.

1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

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

Westenhanger 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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