Live Bus & Train Departures

Southampton Central & Airport Parkway rail departures, plus next buses from three key city-centre stops

Heading for the station or into town? The boards below show what's coming up next, straight from National Rail's own live departure-board feed and the published Bluestar/Unilink/Salisbury Reds bus timetables serving Southampton city centre.

Train Departures

Southampton Central (SOU)

Trains between Brockenhurst and Lymington Pier / Bournemouth may be cancelled or delayed. Latest information can be found in the Disruptions area of the National Rail website.
The lifts are out of order between platform 4 and the footbridge at Southampton Central stationPassengers travelling on Southern services requiring step free access at the station will need to alight at Fareham and change for Great Western Railway services which arrive on Platform 4 at Southampton Central.
All toilets on platform 1 are closed until further notice for essential repairs at Southampton Central. The accessible toilet remains open. Alternative toilets are available on platform 4.
Time Destination Plat Status
21:58 London Waterloo
South Western Railway
— Exp. 22:23
22:08 Portsmouth Harbour
Great Western Railway
— Exp. 22:14
22:22 Bath Spa
Great Western Railway
— Exp. 22:28
22:27 Bournemouth
South Western Railway
— On time
22:36 Romsey
South Western Railway
— On time
22:38 Salisbury
South Western Railway
— On time
22:44 Portsmouth Harbour
South Western Railway
— On time
22:45 Bournemouth
CrossCountry
— On time

Southampton Airport Parkway (SOA)

Trains between Brockenhurst and Lymington Pier / Bournemouth may be cancelled or delayed. Latest information can be found in the Disruptions area of the National Rail website.
Time Destination Plat Status
22:06 London Waterloo
South Western Railway
— Exp. 22:30
22:13 Bath Spa
Great Western Railway
— Exp. 22:20
22:16 Bournemouth
South Western Railway
— On time
22:26 Salisbury
South Western Railway
— On time
22:35 Bournemouth
CrossCountry
— On time
22:43 Weymouth
South Western Railway
— Exp. 22:47
22:47 Romsey
South Western Railway
— On time
23:08 Woking
South Western Railway
— On time

Live rail data: National Rail Live Departure Boards (Darwin), via the open-source Huxley2 proxy.

City Bus Boards

Next scheduled departures from three key Southampton city-centre stops, covering nearly every Bluestar, Unilink and Salisbury Reds route in and out of the centre. This is the published timetable in time order (not GPS-corrected live running) - see the note below.

Above Bar (Stop AB)

Routes: N2, 3, 7, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, N17, 18, 19, 19a, 20, 21, 22, 26, 61

Time Svc To
22:21 16 Midanbury 1758 - HJ24 KCA
22:23 19 Thornhill 6929 - LX58 CXL
22:26 17 Weston 1559 - HJ63 JNF
22:28 15 Hamble-le-Rice
22:31 61 Bevois Valley 1797 - HJ25 BXY
22:33 18 Thornhill
22:43 14 Southampton City Centre 2749 - HF65 CXZ
22:43 26 Southampton City Centre 1565 - HJ63 JNV

Central Station (Stop SB)

Routes: 4, 7, X7, X7R, 8, 9, N9, 11, 12, 16, 17, N17, 18, N18, 19, 19a, 21, 28, 61, 86

Time Svc To
22:11 16 Aldermoor 2753 - HF66 DPV
22:17 9 Fawley 2763 - HF66 DPO
22:20 17 Adanac Park
22:30 18 Millbrook Estate 1237 - HF68 DYB
22:31 19a Lord’s Hill 1564 - HJ63 JNU
22:32 12 Calmore
22:36 4 Romsey
22:40 7 Aldermoor

WestQuay (Stop BP)

Routes: 1, N1, 2, 4, X4, X5, X7, X7R, 8, 9, 11, 12, N18, 86, 506, C27, QC, U1C, U1N

Time Svc To
22:13 2 Southampton City Centre 1763 - HJ24 KCK
22:16 U1C Eastern Docks 1225 - HF18 FFL
22:16 9 Southampton City Centre 1806 - HJ25 BYK
22:18 12 Southampton City Centre 2754 - HF66 DPX
22:31 U1C Eastern Docks 1203 - HF18 FDX
22:38 1 Southampton City Centre 1750 - HJ24 KBP
22:43 2 Southampton City Centre 1813 - HF75 YRO
22:46 U1C Eastern Docks 1206 - HF18 FEG

Bus timetable data: bustimes.org, built on Traveline's national timetable dataset and DfT's Bus Open Data Service.

About this data

Train times are genuinely live: National Rail's Darwin system tracks each train in real time and updates estimated times, platforms, delays and cancellations as they happen, refreshed here roughly every 90 seconds. Bus times are the published schedule in departure order, not adjusted for a bus running early or stuck in traffic - Bluestar/Unilink don't currently publish a stable, freely-reusable per-stop live-ETA feed the way National Rail does, so treat the bus board as "what's timetabled next" rather than "exactly when it'll arrive". For genuinely GPS-tracked bus positions on a map, see bustimes.org's own live map.

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