Crewe railway 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.

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	221	153
London Euston	166	156	134
Manchester Piccadilly	131	133	67
Wilmslow	126	129	65
Birmingham New Street	104	101	57
Wolverhampton	104	102	57
Stockport	99	102	64
Liverpool Lime Street	97	96	58
Runcorn	96	94	58
Liverpool South Parkway	93	87	28
Milton Keynes Central	80	77	75
Chester	75	72	72
Stoke-on-Trent	70	65	41
Alsager	67	64	41
Kidsgrove	67	64	41
Alderley Edge	63	67	19
Holmes Chapel	61	64	16
Penkridge	61	62	26
Sandbach	61	64	17
Shrewsbury	61	59	45
Rugby	50	44	41
Nantwich	47	45	30
Nuneaton	46	41	34
Preston	44	43	55
Whitchurch	43	41	30
Hartford	41	35	28
Lichfield Trent Valley	40	38	29
Tamworth	40	38	29
Birmingham International	39	33	29
Abergavenny	38	36	25
Cardiff Central	38	36	25
Cwmbran	38	36	25
Hereford	38	36	25
Ludlow	38	36	25
Newport	38	36	25
Leominster	37	35	24
Longport	37	35	25
Warrington Bank Quay	37	35	47
Acton Bridge	36	31	28
Atherstone	36	33	24

and 152 more stations, each served less often.

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How busy Crewe 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: 153 stations instead of 192, a drop of about 20%. Saturday runs to 183.

Changing from 3 March 2027

From 3 March 2027, Crewe gains 1 destination including Tame Bridge Parkway and loses 7 including Helsby, Milford Haven, Johnston, Frodsham, Runcorn East, Newton-le-Willows.

Nearest other stations

Nantwich 4.0 miles
Sandbach 4.5 miles
Alsager 5.6 miles
Winsford 7.5 miles
Kidsgrove 7.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

Gresty · 0.8 miles
Coppenhall · 1.7 miles
Basford · 2.2 miles
Willaston · 2.4 miles
Newcastle Crossing · 3.4 miles
Worleston · 3.6 miles

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More about this station on Wikipedia.