Eccles train station

You can reach 26 stations directly from Eccles on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Broad Green, with 40 trains a day.

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Address: St Mary's Road, M30 0DN

26 direct destinations
1,243rd busiest in Britain
Staffed part time
3 parking spaces
6 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Eccles

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Broad Green	40	40	16
Edge Hill	40	40	0
Earlestown	40	40	16
Huyton	40	40	16
Lea Green	40	40	16
Liverpool Lime Street	40	40	16
Newton-le-Willows	40	40	16
Rainhill	40	40	16
Roby	40	40	16
St Helens Junction	40	40	16
Wavertree Technology Park	40	40	16
Whiston	40	40	16
Patricroft	39	39	16
Burnage	36	36	16
East Didsbury	36	36	16
Gatley	36	36	16
Heald Green	36	36	16
Manchester Piccadilly	36	36	16
Mauldeth Road	36	36	16
Manchester Oxford Road	36	36	16
Manchester Airport	36	36	16
Deansgate	35	35	16
Manchester Victoria	10	4	0
Wigan North Western	6	0	0
Styal	1	1	0
Wilmslow	1	1	0

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Lines serving Eccles

Eccles is on the Deal Street and Edge Hill Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Eccles station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Eccles station on 98 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 17 paths on the Wednesday, 14 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 29 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Tuesday, with 4 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 Eccles station is

257,328 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,243rd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Eccles and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 45,876 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.