Blackburn train station

You can reach 75 stations directly from Blackburn on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Accrington, with 108 trains a day.

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• 75 direct destinations
• 431st busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 80 parking spaces
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Blackburn

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

and 35 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Blackburn

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

Freight through Blackburn station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Blackburn station on 118 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 24 paths on the Wednesday, 2 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 busiest hour is 12:00 to 13:00 on the Monday, with 5 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.

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

How busy Blackburn station is

1,297,980 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 431st busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 82,591 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Blackburn and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 244,514 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: 51 stations instead of 75, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 65.

Nearest other stations

• Mill Hill 1.2 miles
• Cherry Tree 1.9 miles
• Ramsgreave and Wilpshire 2.3 miles
• Rishton 2.7 miles
• Pleasington 2.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Daisyfield · 0.7 miles
• Lower Darwen · 1.7 miles
• Feniscowles · 2.8 miles
• Spring Vale · 4.2 miles
• Withnell · 4.3 miles
• Great Harwood · 4.3 miles

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Facilities at Blackburn station

Blackburn is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday: 06:40 to 18:00 · Friday: 06:40 to 19:00 · Sunday: 09:10 to 16:40

Toilets

Parking at Blackburn station

• Station Car Park 80 spaces, 4 accessible
  £3.30 a day, £13.20 a week

Cycle parking: 58 spaces (sheltered, lockers).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.

Getting to Blackburn station

Blackburn station is in Blackburn with Darwen, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M65 J5 (Guide Interchange), 2.0 miles south-east.

8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Interchange.

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

Blackburn 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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