Getting to Salisbury
How to get to Salisbury from London
Getting to Salisbury by train (90 min from London)
To Salisbury from London
Trains to the Salisbury rail station leave twice an hour from London’s Waterloo Station. The train trip from London takes about 90 minutes.
To Salisbury from Southampton
There are also trains about twice an hour to Salisbury from Southampton Central Station; the ride takes 30 minutes.
To Salisbury from Bristol
There are also trains at least hourly from the regional hub in Bristol, 70–95 minutes away.
Salisbury train station
The Salisbury train station is on the western edge of the city center, about a half mile NW of the cathedral.
Getting to Salisbury by car (2 hours from London)
Salisbury is about 88 miles and 2 hours due west of London (traffic willing) on the M3, exisitng after about 50 miles onto the A303 (signposted "The South West/Andover & Salisbury") and then the A343 to the A30 into Salisbury.
Salisbury is also a quick, 40-minute drive from Southampton up the A36.
- Nationalrail.co.uk - Covers all of the lines once operated by the (since-privitized) old British Rail, as well as info on all British rail stations, including maps and services. This includes most major British railways, but notably does not cover many urban area light rail systems (such as London, Glasgow, Manchester, Blackpool, Sheffield, and Midland Metro), nor does it cover the Eurostar, Heathrow Express, nor a handful of heritage or privately owned railways. Still, it's the closest thing to one-stop shopping for finding train connections across the mainland U.K. (though not Northern Ireland).
- BritRail passes - Book railpasses good for travel all over Great Britain—or just in parts of all of England or Scotland.Partner
- Eurostar.com - The super-fast train through the Channel Tunnel connecting London with Paris (2.5 hrs.), Brussels (2 hrs.) and—though those hubs—the rest of Europe. » more
- Europetrainsguide.com - General train info from a private site devoted to European rail travel.
- Seat61.com - General train info from a private site devoted to rail travel, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to get from London to just about any other country in Europe via rail.
- Traintaxi.co.uk - Search stations to find out whether they have taxi ranks/stands, and the phone numbers for pre-booking a cab. (Not being updated after April 2016, but still handy.)
- Sleeper.scot - overnight train
- Heritagerailways.com - An association of historic, heritage, and narrow guage railways—many operating steam trains on historic scenic routes. The site is pretty bare-bones, but if you click on a railway and then look for the link in the box below the map (not teh name on the map itself), you can get to the website for that heritage rail line, train museum, or tourist train
- Train map - A rail network map courtesy of Nationalrail.co.uk.
