Crewe train station

Crewe is a major interchange: 192 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Stafford, with 231 trains a day.

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Address: Nantwich Road, Cheshire, CW2 6HR

Crewe is the nearest station for postcodes in CW98, CW2, CW1, CW3. Check your own postcode.

192 direct destinations
160th busiest in Britain
Staffed full time
Step-free throughout
784 parking spaces
5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Crewe

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Stafford	231	202	141
London Euston	166	139	118
Manchester Piccadilly	131	133	71
Wilmslow	126	129	69
Birmingham New Street	104	100	62
Wolverhampton	104	101	62
Stockport	99	102	68
Liverpool Lime Street	97	97	60
Runcorn	96	95	59
Liverpool South Parkway	93	63	28
Milton Keynes Central	80	72	71
Chester	74	72	71
Stoke-on-Trent	70	65	41
Alsager	67	64	41
Kidsgrove	67	64	41
Alderley Edge	63	67	20
Holmes Chapel	61	64	16
Penkridge	61	62	26
Sandbach	61	64	17
Shrewsbury	60	59	43
Rugby	50	34	35
Nantwich	46	45	18
Nuneaton	46	8	9
Preston	44	69	59
Whitchurch	42	41	18
Hartford	41	33	28
Lichfield Trent Valley	40	5	4
Tamworth	40	5	4
Birmingham International	39	33	35
Abergavenny	37	36	24
Cardiff Central	37	36	24
Cwmbran	37	36	24
Hereford	37	36	24
Longport	37	35	25
Ludlow	37	36	24
Newport	37	36	24
Warrington Bank Quay	37	61	51
Acton Bridge	36	31	28
Atherstone	36	1	2
Leominster	36	35	21

and 152 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Crewe

Crewe is on the West Coast Main Line, the North Wales Coast Line and the Crewe to Derby Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Crewe station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Crewe station on 1,309 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 237 paths on the Wednesday, 168 paths on the Saturday and 14 paths on the Sunday. 206 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 17:00 to 18:00 on the Monday, with 17 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 Crewe station is

3,389,590 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 160th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 1,427,867 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Crewe and London Euston than any other pair: 810,594 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

Sunday is a different railway here: 140 stations instead of 192, a drop of about 27%. Saturday runs to 159.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Crewe gains 1 destination including Tame Bridge Parkway and loses 7 including Helsby, Milford Haven, Johnston, Frodsham, Runcorn East, Newton-le-Willows.