Chorley train station

You can reach 44 stations directly from Chorley on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bolton, with 101 trains a day.

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• 44 direct destinations
• 700th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 140 parking spaces
• 19 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Chorley

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

and 14 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Chorley

Chorley is on the Manchester to Preston Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Chorley station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Chorley station on 10 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.

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 Chorley station is

716,034 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 700th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Chorley and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 142,450 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

• Euxton Balshaw Lane 1.9 miles
• Buckshaw Parkway 1.9 miles
• Adlington 2.9 miles
• Leyland 4.0 miles
• Blackrod 4.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Heapey · 1.9 miles
• Buckshaw Parkway · 2.1 miles
• Euxton railway station, L&NW · 2.2 miles
• Rawlinson Bridge · 2.2 miles
• Coppull · 2.4 miles
• Euxton railway station, L&Y · 2.5 miles

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Facilities at Chorley station

Chorley is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:25 to 19:00 · Saturday: 06:25 to 21:00 · Sunday: 08:30 to 19:00

Toilets

Parking at Chorley station

• Station Car Park 140 spaces, 2 accessible
  £3.30 a day, £13.20 a week

From National Rail's station record, last updated 20 August 2026.

Getting to Chorley station

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

The nearest motorway junction is M61 J8 (Chorley North Link Junction), 0.9 miles north.

19 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rail Station.

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

Chorley 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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