Accrington train station

You can reach 61 stations directly from Accrington on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Blackburn, with 108 trains a day.

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• 61 direct destinations
• 862nd busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 33 parking spaces
• 21 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Accrington

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 21 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Accrington

Accrington is on the East Lancashire Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Accrington station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Accrington station on 14 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 3 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 5 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Accrington station is

503,794 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 862nd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Accrington and Blackburn than any other pair: 78,634 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 44 stations instead of 61, a drop of about 28%. Saturday runs to 47.

Nearest other stations

• Church and Oswaldtwistle 0.9 miles
• Huncoat 1.6 miles
• Rishton 2.2 miles
• Hapton 2.9 miles
• Rose Grove 4.3 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Accrington, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Baxenden · 2.2 miles
• Great Harwood · 2.5 miles
• Simonstone · 3.3 miles
• Haslingden · 3.4 miles
• Padiham · 3.9 miles
• Daisyfield · 3.9 miles

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Facilities at Accrington station

Accrington is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday: 06:40 to 15:00 · Sunday: 09:10 to 16:45

Toilets

Parking at Accrington station

• Station Car Park 33 spaces, 6 accessible
  free

Cycle parking: 32 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 April 2026.

Getting to Accrington station

Accrington station is in Hyndburn, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M65 J7 (Hyndburn Interchange), 1.2 miles north-west.

21 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Ellison Street.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Accrington station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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