Cheapest€35.54
- South Western Railway SW442106:262h 19m08:45Exeter CentralOxted railway station
Door to door 3h 3mCO2 9.5 kgChanges 0Refundable
Exeter to Croydon train
Trains from Exeter to Croydon start at €36.63 and take 3h 3m at their fastest.
The Trains from Exeter to Croydon starts at €36.63 and takes 3h 3m door to door, run by 1 operator over 288 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 3h 3mDoor to door
- 2h 19mMoving
- €36.63From
- 9.5 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Lowest CO2€37.74
- South Western Railway SW539307:301h 30m09:00Exeter CentralReading Station
- Great Western Railway GW747810:4138m11:19Reading StationOxted railway station
Changes at Reading, with 101 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 4h 33mCO2 9.1 kgChanges 1Refundable
Train operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 South Western Railway | €35.54 | 2h 44m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
The train gets you into Croydon. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Rooms within reach of Oxted railway station
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When to book Exeter to Croydon
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €33.3490 days
- €30.5960 days
- €38.8445 days
- €32.7930 days
- €36.6421 days
- €42.1414 days
- €55.347 days
- €71.843 days
- €108.141 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €30.59.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 254 percent. The dearest point is €108.14, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €45.99Sun
- €37.73Mon
- €36.63Tue
- €42.14Wed
- €61.94Thu
- €59.74Fri
- €48.19Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Exeter
Rail
- Exeter Central
- Exeter Central railway station
- Exeter St Davids railway station
Croydon
Rail
- Oxted railway station
- Woldingham railway station
- Hurst Green railway station
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 288 km against 251 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Southampton, Poole, Reading, Bournemouth. The gap between arriving and leaving is 59 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Exeter at 06:26 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Exeter to Croydon
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Train from Exeter to Croydon take?
The Train from Exeter to Croydon takes 3h 3m door to door, of which 2h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 288 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Train from Exeter to Croydon cost?
The Train from Exeter to Croydon starts at €36.63 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €37.74. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Train from Exeter to Croydon?
1 operators run the Train from Exeter to Croydon: South Western Railway. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Train from Exeter to Croydon use?
The Train from Exeter to Croydon leaves from Exeter Central and arrives at Oxted railway station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Train from Exeter to Croydon?
Fares for the Train from Exeter to Croydon bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €30.59. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 254 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Train from Exeter to Croydon produce?
The Train from Exeter to Croydon produces about 9.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 288 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Train from Exeter to Croydon?
Operators on the Train from Exeter to Croydon publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 3m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Exeter to Croydon on 9 September 2026: 288 km of route against 251 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €36.63, and 3h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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