Castleton train station

You can reach 39 stations directly from Castleton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Manchester Victoria, with 66 trains a day.

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• 39 direct destinations
• 1,572nd busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 7 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Castleton

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

and 3 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Castleton

Castleton is on the Caldervale Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Castleton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Castleton station on 168 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 32 paths on the Wednesday, 12 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 50 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 23:00 to 00:00 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 Castleton station is

141,112 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,572nd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Castleton and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 82,700 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: 13 stations instead of 39, a drop of about 67%. Saturday runs to 43.

Nearest other stations

• Rochdale 1.6 miles
• Mills Hill 2.9 miles
• Smithy Bridge 3.8 miles
• Moston 4.8 miles
• Littleborough 4.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Slattocks · 1.5 miles
• Broadfield · 2.2 miles
• Wardleworth · 2.4 miles
• Shawclough and Healey · 2.7 miles
• Milnrow · 2.9 miles
• Royton · 3.1 miles

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Facilities at Castleton station

Castleton is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 3 July 2026.

Getting to Castleton station

Castleton station is in Rochdale, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M62 J20 (Thornham Interchange), 0.6 miles south-east.

7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Milne Street.

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

Castleton 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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