The easiest away ends to reach by train, ranked

If you do your away days by train, the walk from the station decides everything: how late you can leave the pub, whether you make kick-off after a delay, and how grim the trudge back feels after a defeat.

We hold the nearest station and walking time for all 92 league grounds, the same data behind our ground pages. Here is what it says.

The quickest walks in the country

#	Ground	Nearest station	To ground
1	Stamford Bridge Chelsea	Fulham Broadway (District line)	2 min
2	St James' Park Newcastle United	St James (Tyne & Wear Metro)	2 min
3	St James Park Exeter City	Exeter St James Park	2 min
4	The Hive Stadium Barnet	Canons Park (Jubilee line)	2 min
5	Bescot Stadium Walsall	Bescot Stadium	3 min
6	Emirates Stadium Arsenal	Arsenal (Piccadilly line)	4 min
7	Gtech Community Stadium Brentford	Kew Bridge	5 min
8	Anfield Liverpool	Sandhills + Soccerbus shuttle	5 min
9	Etihad Stadium Manchester City	Etihad Campus (Metrolink)	5 min
10	Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Tottenham Hotspur	White Hart Lane (Overground)	5 min
11	The Den Millwall	South Bermondsey	5 min
12	Loftus Road Queens Park Rangers	White City (Central line)	5 min
13	Hillsborough Sheffield Wednesday	Sheffield (then Supertram)	5 min
14	The Hawthorns West Bromwich Albion	The Hawthorns (Metro)	5 min
15	Stok Cae Ras (Racecourse Ground) Wrexham	Wrexham General	5 min

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is about as easy as it gets: White Hart Lane Overground is a minute from the ground. Stamford Bridge and Newcastle's St James' Park are barely further, and Newcastle's is the rare one where the Metro station is practically inside the ground.

A couple of these come with an asterisk. Anfield's five minutes counts the Soccerbus shuttle from Sandhills, not a walk from Lime Street, and Sheffield Wednesday's figure relies on the Supertram doing its bit.

The long hauls

At the other end of the table, the nearest station is not actually near. These are the grounds where the train only gets you to the town, not the match, and you need a bus, a taxi or a serious walk to finish the job.

#	Ground	Nearest station	To ground
1	LNER Community Stadium York City	York (then bus)	60 min
2	King Power Stadium Leicester City	Leicester	45 min
3	Kassam Stadium Oxford United	Oxford (then bus)	45 min
4	Adams Park Wycombe Wanderers	High Wycombe (then bus/taxi)	45 min
5	JobServe Community Stadium Colchester United	Colchester (then bus)	45 min
6	The New Lawn Forest Green Rovers	Stroud (then bus)	45 min
7	Deepdale Preston North End	Preston	40 min
8	bet365 Stadium Stoke City	Stoke-on-Trent	40 min
9	Whaddon Road Cheltenham Town	Cheltenham Spa	40 min
10	Highbury Stadium Fleetwood Town	Blackpool North (then tram)	40 min

The Kassam Stadium, Adams Park and Forest Green's New Lawn all sit around 45 minutes from their nearest railway station. If you are heading to any of the grounds in this table, sort the final leg before you travel and do not cut the return fine: post-match buses fill fast and rural taxi ranks empty faster.

What to do with this

Two practical rules fall out of the data:

1. Under 10 minutes: you can drink near the station and leave 30 minutes before kick-off.
2. Over 25 minutes: treat the listed time as a best case, plan the last leg like a separate journey, and know your options back before the final whistle.

A paid brief does the full door-to-turnstile plan for your specific fixture: train times from your town, the walking route, and when to leave to arrive with time for the queue.