Bidston train station
You can reach 28 stations directly from Bidston on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Birkenhead North, with 236 trains a day.
Address: Bidston Station Approach, Prenton, CH43 7RF
- 28 direct destinations
- 1,156th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- 198 parking spaces
- 2 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Bidston
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birkenhead North | 236 | 236 | 188 |
| Birkenhead Park | 236 | 236 | 188 |
| Hamilton Square | 236 | 236 | 189 |
| Conway Park | 236 | 236 | 188 |
| Hoylake | 236 | 236 | 188 |
| Leasowe | 236 | 236 | 188 |
| Liverpool James Street | 236 | 236 | 189 |
| Meols | 236 | 236 | 188 |
| Manor Road | 236 | 236 | 188 |
| Moreton | 236 | 236 | 188 |
| West Kirby | 236 | 236 | 188 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 118 | 118 | 63 |
| Liverpool Central | 118 | 118 | 63 |
| Moorfields | 118 | 118 | 63 |
| Buckley | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Caergwrle | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Cefn-y-Bedd | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Gwersyllt | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Hope (Flintshire) | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Heswall | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Hawarden Bridge | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Hawarden | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Neston | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Penyffordd | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Shotton | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Upton | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Wrexham General | 41 | 41 | 21 |
| Wrexham Central | 5 | 7 | 16 |
Lines serving Bidston
Bidston is on the Merseyrail Wirral Line (Down West Kirby), the Merseyrail Wirral Line (Up West Kirby) and the Borderlands Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Bidston station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Bidston station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Bidston station is
301,450 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,156th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 102,377 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Bidston and Liverpool Central than any other pair: 37,652 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
- Leasowe 0.9 miles
- Birkenhead North 0.9 miles
- Wallasey Village 1.0 miles
- Wallasey Grove Road 1.4 miles
- Moreton 1.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Bidston, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Beechwood · 0.9 miles
- Birkenhead Dock · 0.9 miles
- Liscard and Poulton · 1.1 miles
- Warren · 1.9 miles
- Cathcart Street Goods · 2.3 miles
- Town Meadow · 2.4 miles
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Facilities at Bidston station
Bidston is staffed full time, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 05:51 to 00:05 · Sunday: 08:01 to 00:05
Toilets · Waiting room
Parking at Bidston station
- Station Car Park 198 spaces, 10 accessible
Cycle parking: 30 spaces (sheltered, compounds).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2025.
Getting to Bidston station
Bidston station is in Wirral, North West, and is run by Merseyrail.
The nearest motorway junction is M53 J1 (Bidston Island), 0.1 miles north-west.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Bidston Interchange.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Bidston 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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