Dronfield train station

You can reach 36 stations directly from Dronfield on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Alfreton, with 41 trains a day.

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Dronfield is the nearest station for postcodes in S18. Check your own postcode.

36 direct destinations
1,301st busiest in Britain
Unstaffed
Step-free in part
50 parking spaces
5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Dronfield

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Alfreton	41	41	30
Chesterfield	43	43	30
Nottingham	41	41	30
Sheffield	43	43	30
Langley Mill	37	36	29
Ilkeston	38	38	27
Barnsley Interchange	32	32	25
Leeds	32	32	25
Meadowhall Interchange	32	32	25
Wakefield Kirkgate	32	32	25
Manchester Piccadilly	5	5	3
Stockport	5	5	3
Liverpool Lime Street	5	5	2
Liverpool South Parkway	5	5	2
Manchester Oxford Road	5	5	2
Normanton	2	2	2
Warrington Central	5	5	2
Widnes	5	5	2
Appleby	0	0	1
Armathwaite	0	0	1
Bingley	0	0	1
Carlisle	0	0	1
Castleford	0	0	1
Chapeltown	0	0	1
Dent	0	0	1
Dore and Totley	2	2	1
Darton	0	0	1
Edale	0	0	1
Elsecar	0	0	1
Garsdale	0	0	1
Horton-in-Ribblesdale	0	0	1
Hellifield	0	0	1
Keighley	0	0	1
Kirkby Stephen	0	0	1
Langwathby	0	0	1
Long Preston	0	0	1
Lazonby and Kirkoswald	0	0	1
Ribblehead	0	0	1
Settle	0	0	1
Shipley	0	0	1

and 3 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Dronfield

Dronfield is on the Midland Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Dronfield station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Dronfield station on 578 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 112 paths on the Wednesday, 45 paths on the Saturday and 12 paths on the Sunday. 42 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 05:00 to 06:00 on the Wednesday, with 11 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 Dronfield station is

229,562 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,301st busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Dronfield and Sheffield than any other pair: 87,568 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.