Cross Gates train station
You can reach 28 stations directly from Cross Gates on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Leeds, with 73 trains a day.
Cross Gates is the nearest station for postcodes in LS15, LS14. Check your own postcode.
- 28 direct destinations
- 891st busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 20 parking spaces
- 6 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Cross Gates
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 73 | 38 | 60 |
| Garforth | 70 | 36 | 60 |
| Micklefield | 68 | 37 | 60 |
| East Garforth | 66 | 35 | 60 |
| Selby | 37 | 5 | 60 |
| Bradford Interchange | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| Halifax | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| New Pudsey | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| South Milford | 36 | 5 | 30 |
| York | 36 | 33 | 0 |
| Brough | 33 | 2 | 0 |
| Hull Paragon Interchange | 33 | 2 | 0 |
| Bramley | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| Church Fenton | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| Accrington | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Blackburn | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Blackpool North | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Burnley Manchester Road | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Hebden Bridge | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Poulton-le-Fylde | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Preston | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Ulleskelf | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Kirkham and Wesham | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Bamber Bridge | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Howden | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lostock Hall | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mill Hill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sowerby Bridge | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Freight through Cross Gates station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Cross Gates station on 36 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 7 paths on the Wednesday, 2 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Cross Gates station is
474,490 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 891st busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Cross Gates and Leeds than any other pair: 267,364 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: 6 stations instead of 28, a drop of about 79%. Saturday runs to 12.
Nearest other stations
- Garforth 2.8 miles
- Woodlesford 3.3 miles
- East Garforth 3.3 miles
- Leeds 4.1 miles
- Micklefield 5.2 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Cross Gates, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Manston · 0.4 miles
- Penda's Way · 0.7 miles
- Thorpe Park · 1.0 miles
- Osmondthorpe · 1.7 miles
- Scholes · 1.9 miles
- Leeds Marsh Lane · 3.3 miles
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Facilities at Cross Gates station
Cross Gates is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:02 to 14:15 · Sunday: closed
Parking at Cross Gates station
- Station Car Park 20 spaces, 2 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 15 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 26 May 2026.
Getting to Cross Gates station
Cross Gates station is in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J46 (Austhorpe), 1.5 miles east.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Cross Gates Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Cross Gates 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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