Birchwood train station
You can reach 48 stations directly from Birchwood on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Warrington Central, with 85 trains a day.
Birchwood is the nearest station for postcodes in WA13. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Birchwood
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warrington Central | 85 | 86 | 50 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 84 | 85 | 50 |
| Irlam | 75 | 76 | 21 |
| Urmston | 73 | 74 | 21 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 71 | 73 | 50 |
| Liverpool South Parkway | 71 | 73 | 50 |
| Flixton | 47 | 47 | 21 |
| Padgate | 44 | 44 | 0 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 38 | 39 | 29 |
| Warrington West | 38 | 39 | 50 |
| Sheffield | 37 | 37 | 29 |
| Stockport | 34 | 36 | 29 |
| Mossley Hill | 33 | 33 | 21 |
| Doncaster | 32 | 33 | 26 |
| Edge Hill | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Hough Green | 32 | 33 | 21 |
| West Allerton | 32 | 32 | 21 |
| Meadowhall Interchange | 31 | 32 | 25 |
| Barnetby | 30 | 31 | 24 |
| Cleethorpes | 30 | 31 | 24 |
| Grimsby Town | 30 | 31 | 24 |
| Habrough | 30 | 31 | 24 |
| Scunthorpe | 30 | 31 | 24 |
| Chassen Road | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| Trafford Park | 27 | 26 | 0 |
| Humphrey Park | 26 | 25 | 0 |
| Glazebrook | 25 | 25 | 0 |
| Deansgate | 13 | 13 | 21 |
| Dore and Totley | 11 | 11 | 6 |
| Widnes | 9 | 10 | 21 |
| Alfreton | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Chesterfield | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Ely | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Grantham | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Nottingham | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Norwich | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterborough | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Thetford | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Althorpe | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Crowle | 2 | 2 | 0 |
and 8 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Birchwood
Birchwood is on the Manchester and Allerton Junction Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Birchwood station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Birchwood 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 Birchwood station is
437,172 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 937th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Birchwood and Manchester Oxford Road than any other pair: 134,622 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: 26 stations instead of 48, a drop of about 46%. Saturday runs to 44.
Nearest other stations
- Padgate 1.4 miles
- Glazebrook 2.9 miles
- Warrington Central 3.1 miles
- Warrington Bank Quay 3.7 miles
- Irlam 4.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Birchwood, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Thelwall · 2.3 miles
- Newchurch Halt · 2.4 miles
- Lymm · 2.6 miles
- Culcheth · 2.6 miles
- Latchford · 2.9 miles
- Dallam Lane · 3.2 miles
Show closed stations on the map
Facilities at Birchwood station
Birchwood is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:10 to 22:00 · Sunday: 08:10 to 22:00
Toilets
Parking at Birchwood station
- Station Car Park
Cycle parking: 20 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.
Getting to Birchwood station
Birchwood station is in Warrington, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M6 J21 (Woolston Interchange), 0.8 miles south-east.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Birchwood Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Birchwood 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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