Appleby train station
You can reach 22 stations directly from Appleby on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bingley, with 16 trains a day.
Appleby is the nearest station for postcodes in CA16. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Appleby
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bingley | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Carlisle | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Hellifield | 15 | 15 | 12 |
| Keighley | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Kirkby Stephen | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Leeds | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Settle | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Shipley | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Skipton | 16 | 16 | 12 |
| Armathwaite | 15 | 15 | 11 |
| Dent | 14 | 14 | 11 |
| Garsdale | 16 | 16 | 11 |
| Horton-in-Ribblesdale | 14 | 14 | 11 |
| Langwathby | 15 | 15 | 11 |
| Lazonby and Kirkoswald | 15 | 15 | 11 |
| Ribblehead | 16 | 16 | 11 |
| Gargrave | 13 | 12 | 7 |
| Long Preston | 12 | 11 | 6 |
| Barnsley Interchange | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Meadowhall Interchange | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Sheffield | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Wakefield Kirkgate | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Alfreton | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Cononley | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Crossflatts | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Chesterfield | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dronfield | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ilkeston | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Langley Mill | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Nottingham | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Saltaire | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Steeton and Silsden | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Lines serving Appleby
Appleby is on the Settle-Carlisle Railway. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Appleby station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Appleby station on 70 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 15 paths on the Wednesday, 6 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 20 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 10:00 to 11:00 on the Wednesday, with 4 paths booked.
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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Appleby station is
63,348 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,958th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Appleby and Carlisle than any other pair: 28,984 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.
Nearest other stations
- Kirkby Stephen 9.9 miles
- Langwathby 10.6 miles
- Penrith (North Lakes) 12.3 miles
- Lazonby and Kirkoswald 14.6 miles
- Garsdale 19.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Appleby, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Ormside · 2.4 miles
- Long Marton · 2.8 miles
- Kirkby Thore · 4.0 miles
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Facilities at Appleby station
Appleby is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 21:00 · Saturday: 08:00 to 21:00 · Sunday: 09:45 to 20:00
Toilets
Parking at Appleby station
- Station Car Park 25 spaces, 2 accessible
£2.00 a day
From National Rail's station record, last updated 2 September 2026.
Getting to Appleby station
Appleby station is in Westmorland and Furness, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M6 J39 (Shap / Hardendale Interchange), 8.1 miles south-west.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Appleby 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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