Garforth train station

You can reach 40 stations directly from Garforth on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Leeds, with 103 trains a day.

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• 40 direct destinations
• 819th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 250 parking spaces
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Garforth

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

and 2 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Garforth

Garforth is on the Leeds to Micklefield line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Garforth station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Garforth station on 40 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 7 paths on the Wednesday, 5 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 7 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 21 September 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 Garforth station is

561,056 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 819th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Garforth and Leeds than any other pair: 349,036 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: 21 stations instead of 40, a drop of about 48%. Saturday runs to 42.

Changing from 24 March 2027

From 24 March 2027, Garforth gains 4 destinations including Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road, Huddersfield, Manchester Airport and loses 2 including Brighouse, Todmorden.

Nearest other stations

• East Garforth 0.5 miles
• Micklefield 2.4 miles
• Cross Gates 2.8 miles
• Woodlesford 3.7 miles
• Castleford 5.1 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Roman Road closed 1834 · 1.5 miles
• Thorpe Park · 1.8 miles
• Manston · 2.4 miles
• Kippax · 2.4 miles
• Penda's Way · 2.5 miles
• Aberford · 2.6 miles

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Facilities at Garforth station

Garforth is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday: 06:00 to 14:00 · Sunday: closed

Parking at Garforth station

• Station Car Park 250 spaces, 5 accessible
  free

Cycle parking: 9 spaces (sheltered, lockers).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.

Getting to Garforth station

Garforth station is in Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M1 J47 (Parlington), 0.9 miles north-east.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Garforth Rail Stn.

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

Garforth 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