Carlisle train station

Carlisle is a major interchange: 110 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Preston, with 102 trains a day.

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• 110 direct destinations
• 253rd busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 235 parking spaces

Direct trains from Carlisle

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

and 79 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Carlisle

Carlisle is on the West Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Carlisle station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Carlisle station on 603 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 114 paths on the Wednesday, 58 paths on the Saturday and 10 paths on the Sunday. 148 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Tuesday, with 12 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 Carlisle station is

2,316,310 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 253rd busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 368,419 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Carlisle and Newcastle than any other pair: 274,152 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

• Dalston 3.8 miles
• Wetheral 4.0 miles
• Armathwaite 8.5 miles
• Gretna Green 9.3 miles
• Brampton 9.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Carlisle Crown Street · 0.3 miles
• Carlisle Bogfield · 0.3 miles
• Carlisle London Road · 0.6 miles
• Carlisle Canal · 0.8 miles
• Port Carlisle Junction · 1.2 miles
• Cummersdale · 1.9 miles

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Facilities at Carlisle station

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

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 05:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 09:00 to 20:00

Toilets · Waiting room

Parking at Carlisle station

• Carlisle Car Park 1 160 spaces, 9 accessible
  £12.50 a day
• Carlisle Car Park 2 75 spaces, 4 accessible
  £12.50 a day

Cycle parking: 16 spaces (sheltered, racks).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 14 May 2026.

Getting to Carlisle station

Carlisle station is in Cumberland, North West, and is run by Avanti West Coast.

The nearest motorway junction is M6 J43 (Rosehill Roundabout), 1.9 miles east.

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

Carlisle 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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