Falmouth Town is the stop for the centre and the museum; Falmouth Docks, the end of the line, for Pendennis Castle and step-free access.
Falmouth has two stations at the far end of the Maritime Line from Truro. Falmouth Town is the one for most visitors: the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership, which promotes the line, calls it the more central of the two and recommends it for most trips. Trains then carry on to Falmouth Docks, where the line ends, and that stop has two uses of its own: Pendennis Castle, and step-free access for wheelchair users. The stop before both is Penmere, on Penmere Hill.
The journeys from Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol, London and St Ives each have a page of their own, and all of them are planned to Falmouth Town.
Falmouth Town has a single platform, and its address is Avenue Road. National Rail says the platform is reached by a long, steep ramp. There are seats on the platform but no waiting room, and National Rail lists no sheltered waiting area either, so there is nowhere dry to wait for a train.
The walking time to Market Strand and the Moor is in the station panel on this page. On the way in you pass the National Maritime Museum Cornwall on Discovery Quay; the museum puts itself a five-minute walk from “Falmouth Town (The Dell) Station”, giving the station its older name. The museum stands at the southern end of the harbour side, between Falmouth Docks and the main shopping area, so the shops carry on beyond it towards the Moor.
For the sea rather than the shops, the rail partnership puts Gyllyngvase Beach less than ten minutes’ walk from Falmouth Town, and Castle Beach under ten minutes as well. Falmouth is also a PlusBus area: add PlusBus to a rail ticket and it covers bus travel within the town’s zone.
Falmouth Docks stands on Station Approach, off Pendennis Drive. Its one platform is level with the main entrance, and the seating there is under a roof or canopy, which Falmouth Town does not have.
English Heritage names Falmouth Docks as the nearest station to Pendennis Castle and puts the walk at about half a mile (0.75 km), uphill. As of October 2026, its directions page offered 20% off a walk-up ticket to anyone who shows a train ticket when buying.
The Docks is also the stop to know about when Falmouth Town is shut. Falmouth Town closed for the three days of the Sea Shanty Festival in June 2026, and National Rail’s notice sent passengers to Falmouth Docks instead. For a big event in town, look at the station page on National Rail before you travel.
Neither station has a ticket office or staff on any day of the week. Both have ticket machines that GWR lists as accessible, and both machines will print tickets bought online. GWR lists penalty fares at both stations, so buy before you board, from the machine or, as the rail partnership asks, on the GWR app or website.
There are no toilets or baby-changing facilities at either station, which is worth knowing before the walk back for a train. Both stations have free GWR station Wi-Fi.
National Rail puts Falmouth Town in step-free category B2: “there is some step-free access to all platforms”. Its note on the station is plain about what that means here. The platform is reached by a long steep ramp, and because the platform is narrow, wheelchair users cannot get on or off trains at Falmouth Town.
Falmouth Docks is category A: “there is step-free access to all platforms”. Its platform is level with the main entrance, and GWR lists a ramp for getting on the train. A wheelchair user travelling to Falmouth should plan on the Docks and say so when booking.
Neither station has lifts or staff. Passenger Assist can be booked up to two hours before the journey starts, and at both stations the train’s on-board team gives the help at the platform. Both have Help Points with induction loops.
Falmouth Town’s car park is council-managed, with 60 spaces including one accessible bay, according to National Rail, and GWR lists it as not free. Cornwall Council’s The Dell car park, which the museum describes as near the railway station, is listed by the council as a long stay car park with a 24-hour ticket and separate tariffs for 1 April to 31 October and 1 November to 31 March, so what you pay depends on the season: read the tariff board at the machine.
Falmouth Docks has a 20-space car park with two accessible bays, which National Rail notes are smaller than 2.4 by 4.8 metres. It is not free either; check the board there too.
Both stations have a set-down and pick-up point at the entrance. Neither has a taxi rank, and National Rail’s onward travel sheet says advance booking is essential, so arrange a cab before the train gets in. For bikes, Falmouth Town has ten uncovered spaces and Falmouth Docks six on the platform, and both are watched by CCTV.
Each route has its own page with the day's trains, the changes and a link to times and fares.