Dalston train station
You can reach 9 stations directly from Dalston on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Aspatria, with 37 trains a day.
Dalston is the nearest station for postcodes in CA5. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Dalston
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspatria | 37 | 36 | 24 |
| Carlisle | 37 | 36 | 24 |
| Maryport | 37 | 36 | 24 |
| Wigton | 37 | 36 | 24 |
| Workington | 37 | 36 | 24 |
| Flimby | 36 | 35 | 23 |
| Parton | 36 | 35 | 22 |
| Whitehaven | 36 | 35 | 22 |
| Harrington | 35 | 34 | 21 |
Lines serving Dalston
Dalston is on the Carnforth Barrow and Carlisle Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Dalston station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Dalston station on 59 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 11 paths on the Wednesday, 6 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is 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 Dalston station is
57,392 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,996th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Dalston and Carlisle than any other pair: 41,058 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
- Carlisle 3.8 miles
- Wetheral 6.7 miles
- Wigton 7.1 miles
- Armathwaite 9.0 miles
- Gretna Green 11.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Dalston, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Cummersdale · 2.2 miles
- Curthwaite · 2.6 miles
- Carlisle Bogfield · 3.6 miles
- Carlisle Crown Street · 3.7 miles
- Carlisle Canal · 3.7 miles
- Crofton closed 1954 · 3.7 miles
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Facilities at Dalston station
Dalston is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
WiFi
From National Rail's station record, last updated 2 April 2026.
Getting to Dalston station
Dalston station is in Cumberland, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M6 J42 (Golden Fleece), 4.3 miles east.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Dalston 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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