Chester-le-Street train station
You can reach 36 stations directly from Chester-le-Street on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Darlington, with 40 trains a day.
See Chester-le-Street on the map
Chester-le-Street is the nearest station for postcodes in DH2, DH3, DH4, NE38, DH9. Check your own postcode.
- 36 direct destinations
- 1,291st busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 11 parking spaces
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Chester-le-Street
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darlington | 40 | 39 | 32 |
| Durham | 40 | 39 | 32 |
| Newcastle | 40 | 39 | 32 |
| York | 36 | 35 | 30 |
| Brighouse | 33 | 34 | 28 |
| Leeds | 34 | 34 | 28 |
| Lea Green | 31 | 34 | 28 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 33 | 34 | 28 |
| Manchester Victoria | 33 | 34 | 28 |
| Newton-le-Willows | 31 | 34 | 28 |
| Dewsbury | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Northallerton | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Allens West | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Bardon Mill | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Blaydon | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Brampton | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Carlisle | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Corbridge | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dinsdale | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Eaglescliffe | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Haydon Bridge | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hexham | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Haltwhistle | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Longbeck | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Middlesbrough | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| MetroCentre | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Marske | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Prudhoe | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Redcar Central | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Redcar East | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Riding Mill | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Stocksfield | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Saltburn | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Thornaby | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Thirsk | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Wetheral | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Wylam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Lines serving Chester-le-Street
Chester-le-Street is on the East Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Chester-le-Street station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Chester-le-Street station on 250 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 47 paths on the Wednesday, 22 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 56 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 00:00 to 01:00 on the Saturday, with 6 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 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 Chester-le-Street station is
232,324 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,291st busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Chester-le-Street and Newcastle than any other pair: 151,306 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 24 March 2027
From 24 March 2027, Chester-le-Street gains 2 destinations including Stalybridge, Huddersfield and loses 2 including Castleton, Manchester Oxford Road.
Nearest other stations
- Durham 5.2 miles
- Heworth 6.8 miles
- Dunston 7.1 miles
- MetroCentre 8.0 miles
- Newcastle 8.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Chester-le-Street, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Pelton · 1.4 miles
- Durham Turnpike · 1.5 miles
- Plawsworth · 1.8 miles
- Vigo · 1.9 miles
- Birtley · 2.8 miles
- Fencehouses · 2.9 miles
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Facilities at Chester-le-Street station
Chester-le-Street is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at Chester-le-Street station
- Station Car Park 11 spaces
£3.30 a day, £13.20 a week
Cycle parking: 2 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 2 June 2026.
Getting to Chester-le-Street station
Chester-le-Street station is in County Durham, North East, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J63 (Blind Lane), 0.9 miles north-east.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station car park.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Chester-le-Street 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