Congleton train station

You can reach 13 stations directly from Congleton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Adlington (Cheshire), with 37 trains a day.

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Congleton is the nearest station for postcodes in CW12, ST8, ST13. Check your own postcode.

13 direct destinations
1,118th busiest in Britain
Staffed part time
Step-free in part
105 parking spaces
4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Congleton

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday
Adlington (Cheshire)	37	34
Bramhall	37	34
Cheadle Hulme	37	34
Kidsgrove	37	34
Macclesfield	37	34
Manchester Piccadilly	37	34
Prestbury	37	34
Poynton	37	34
Stoke-on-Trent	37	34
Stockport	37	34
Longport	3	3
Heaton Chapel	2	1
Levenshulme	1	1

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Lines serving Congleton

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

Freight through Congleton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Congleton station on 82 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 21 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 20 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 Tuesday, with 7 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 Congleton station is

323,770 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,118th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Congleton and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 163,778 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

There is no Sunday service from Congleton. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.