Winchester train station
You can reach 76 stations directly from Winchester on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Southampton Airport Parkway, with 132 trains a day.
Address: Winchester, SO23 8TJ
Winchester is the nearest station for postcodes in SO23, SO21, SO22, SO25, SO24. Check your own postcode.
- 76 direct destinations
- 118th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 464 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Winchester
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southampton Airport Parkway | 132 | 135 | 79 |
| Southampton Central | 132 | 135 | 79 |
| Basingstoke | 121 | 111 | 104 |
| Bournemouth | 112 | 110 | 75 |
| Brockenhurst | 108 | 110 | 75 |
| London Waterloo | 108 | 105 | 78 |
| Woking | 80 | 77 | 78 |
| Eastleigh | 74 | 77 | 50 |
| Poole | 66 | 68 | 52 |
| Dorchester South | 56 | 59 | 28 |
| Hamworthy | 56 | 59 | 28 |
| Weymouth | 56 | 59 | 28 |
| Wareham | 56 | 59 | 28 |
| Christchurch | 49 | 51 | 24 |
| New Milton | 49 | 51 | 52 |
| Pokesdown | 48 | 51 | 24 |
| Shawford | 48 | 38 | 33 |
| Branksome | 46 | 43 | 30 |
| Parkstone | 46 | 43 | 30 |
| Farnborough (Main) | 42 | 39 | 18 |
| Clapham Junction | 41 | 44 | 78 |
| Fleet | 41 | 39 | 2 |
| Micheldever | 39 | 38 | 34 |
| Wool | 38 | 36 | 28 |
| Botley | 37 | 34 | 23 |
| Cosham | 37 | 34 | 23 |
| Fareham | 37 | 34 | 23 |
| Fratton | 37 | 34 | 23 |
| Hedge End | 37 | 34 | 23 |
| Portchester | 37 | 34 | 23 |
| Hilsea | 36 | 34 | 22 |
| Portsmouth Harbour | 36 | 34 | 23 |
| Portsmouth and Southsea | 36 | 34 | 23 |
| Moreton | 34 | 35 | 28 |
| Banbury | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Birmingham New Street | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Leamington Spa | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Oxford | 33 | 32 | 24 |
| Reading | 33 | 32 | 25 |
| Birmingham International | 32 | 32 | 24 |
and 36 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Winchester
Winchester is on the South West Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Winchester station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Winchester station on 510 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 92 paths on the Wednesday, 65 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 64 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 15:00 to 16:00 on the Monday, 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Winchester station is
4,593,936 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 118th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 97,244 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Winchester and London Waterloo than any other pair: 1,385,924 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: 58 stations instead of 76, a drop of about 24%. Saturday runs to 71.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Winchester gains 10 destinations including Dunbar, Alnmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Motherwell, Glasgow Central, Haymarket.
Nearest other stations
- Shawford 3.1 miles
- Chandler's Ford 6.4 miles
- Eastleigh 6.9 miles
- Southampton Airport Parkway 8.3 miles
- Micheldever 8.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Winchester, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Winchester (Chesil) · 0.8 miles
- King's Worthy · 1.5 miles
- Worthy Down Halt · 3.2 miles
- Itchen Abbas · 3.9 miles
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Facilities at Winchester station
Winchester is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 20:30 · Saturday: 06:00 to 19:30 · Sunday: 07:00 to 20:30
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Winchester station
- Winchester Car Park 464 spaces, 12 accessible
£1.80 an hour, £5.50 off-peak, £10.90 a day, £43.40 a week
Cycle parking: 286 spaces (sheltered, compounds).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 24 August 2026.
Getting to Winchester station
Winchester station is in Winchester, South East, and is run by South Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M3 J9 (Winnall), 1.2 miles east.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Winchester 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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