Carnforth train station

You can reach 55 stations directly from Carnforth on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Lancaster, with 59 trains a day.

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• 55 direct destinations
• 1,407th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free throughout
• 64 parking spaces
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Carnforth

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

and 15 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Carnforth

Carnforth is on the West Coast Main Line and the Furness Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Carnforth station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Carnforth station on 426 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 80 paths on the Wednesday, 49 paths on the Saturday and 11 paths on the Sunday. 78 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 22:00 to 23:00 on the Monday, with 8 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 Carnforth station is

196,102 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,407th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 16,795 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Carnforth and Lancaster than any other pair: 73,340 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.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Carnforth gains 1 destination including Burnage.

Nearest other stations

• Silverdale 3.0 miles
• Bare Lane 4.6 miles
• Arnside 5.5 miles
• Morecambe 5.7 miles
• Lancaster 5.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Bolton-le-Sands · 1.9 miles
• Borwick · 2.8 miles
• Hest Bank · 3.2 miles
• Halton · 3.8 miles
• Caton · 4.2 miles
• Burton and Holme · 4.4 miles

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Facilities at Carnforth station

Carnforth is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.

Parking at Carnforth station

• Station Car Park 64 spaces, 5 accessible
  £4.40 a day, £17.60 a week

Cycle parking: 17 spaces (lockers).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 26 June 2026.

Getting to Carnforth station

Carnforth station is in Lancaster, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M6 J35 (Carnforth Interchange), 0.7 miles south-east.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.

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

Carnforth 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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