Earlestown train station

You can reach 72 stations directly from Earlestown on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Newton-le-Willows, with 115 trains a day.

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• 72 direct destinations
• 1,110th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 25 parking spaces
• 2 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Earlestown

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

and 32 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Earlestown

Earlestown is on the Deal Street and Edge Hill Line and the Chester to Manchester Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Earlestown station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Earlestown station on 245 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 44 paths on the Wednesday, 23 paths on the Saturday and 11 paths on the Sunday. 58 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 01:00 to 02:00 on the Wednesday, with 5 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Earlestown station is

330,956 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,110th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 43,987 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Earlestown and Liverpool Lime Street than any other pair: 57,766 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: 43 stations instead of 72, a drop of about 40%. Saturday runs to 63.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Earlestown gains 4 destinations including Chirk, Ruabon, Gobowen, Wrexham General and loses 1 including Crewe.

Nearest other stations

• Newton-le-Willows 1.0 miles
• St Helens Junction 2.8 miles
• Garswood 2.9 miles
• Bryn 3.4 miles
• St Helens Central 3.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Collins Green · 1.2 miles
• Lowton · 1.7 miles
• Haydock · 1.7 miles
• Parkside · 1.7 miles
• Ashton-in-Makerfield · 2.0 miles
• Haydock Park · 2.1 miles

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Facilities at Earlestown station

Earlestown is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday: 06:00 to 00:00 · Sunday: 08:30 to 00:00

Parking at Earlestown station

• Station Car Park 25 spaces
  free

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 7 September 2026.

Getting to Earlestown station

Earlestown station is in St. Helens, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M6 J23 (Haydock Island), 1.2 miles north.

2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Earlestown Interchange.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Earlestown 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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