Chelford train station
You can reach 12 stations directly from Chelford on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Alderley Edge, with 33 trains a day.
Direct trains from Chelford
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alderley Edge | 33 | 36 | 16 |
| Cheadle Hulme | 33 | 36 | 16 |
| Crewe | 33 | 36 | 16 |
| Goostrey | 33 | 36 | 16 |
| Holmes Chapel | 33 | 36 | 16 |
| Heaton Chapel | 33 | 36 | 2 |
| Handforth | 33 | 36 | 16 |
| Levenshulme | 33 | 36 | 1 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 33 | 36 | 16 |
| Sandbach | 33 | 36 | 16 |
| Stockport | 33 | 36 | 16 |
| Wilmslow | 33 | 36 | 16 |
Lines serving Chelford
Chelford is on the Crewe to Manchester Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Chelford station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Chelford station on 378 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 64 paths on the Wednesday, 60 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 55 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 Saturday, 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Chelford station is
46,262 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,074th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Chelford and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 15,690 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
- Alderley Edge 2.9 miles
- Goostrey 3.8 miles
- Knutsford 4.4 miles
- Wilmslow 4.5 miles
- Mobberley 4.6 miles
Facilities at Chelford station
Chelford is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Cycle parking: 4 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 28 May 2026.
Getting to Chelford station
Chelford station is in Cheshire East, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M6 J19 (Tabley Interchange), 6.0 miles north-west.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Dixon Drive.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Chelford 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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