Church and Oswaldtwistle train station

You can reach 17 stations directly from Church and Oswaldtwistle on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Accrington, with 36 trains a day.

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• 17 direct destinations
• 1,986th busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Church and Oswaldtwistle

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

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Lines serving Church and Oswaldtwistle

Church and Oswaldtwistle is on the East Lancashire Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Church and Oswaldtwistle station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Church and Oswaldtwistle station on 14 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 3 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 5 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are 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 Church and Oswaldtwistle station is

59,450 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,986th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Church and Oswaldtwistle and Burnley Central than any other pair: 18,384 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

• Accrington 0.9 miles
• Rishton 1.5 miles
• Huncoat 2.3 miles
• Blackburn 3.6 miles
• Hapton 3.7 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Great Harwood · 2.4 miles
• Baxenden · 2.6 miles
• Daisyfield · 3.1 miles
• Haslingden · 3.8 miles
• Lower Darwen · 3.8 miles
• Simonstone · 3.8 miles

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Facilities at Church and Oswaldtwistle station

Church and Oswaldtwistle is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.

From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.

Getting to Church and Oswaldtwistle station

Church and Oswaldtwistle station is in Hyndburn, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M65 J7 (Hyndburn Interchange), 0.9 miles north.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Alleytroyds.

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

Church and Oswaldtwistle 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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