Hag Fold train station
You can reach 48 stations directly from Hag Fold on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Atherton, with 67 trains a day.
Hag Fold is the nearest station for postcodes in M46, WN7. Check your own postcode.
- 48 direct destinations
- 1,897th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 8 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Hag Fold
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atherton | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Daisy Hill | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Hindley | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Manchester Victoria | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Salford Crescent | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Swinton (Manchester) | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Walkden | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Salford Central | 65 | 63 | 15 |
| Wigan Wallgate | 65 | 63 | 15 |
| Rochdale | 64 | 62 | 0 |
| Todmorden | 63 | 61 | 0 |
| Littleborough | 62 | 61 | 0 |
| Smithy Bridge | 61 | 60 | 0 |
| Moorside | 38 | 36 | 15 |
| Walsden | 38 | 38 | 0 |
| Ince | 33 | 33 | 15 |
| Hebden Bridge | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Leeds | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Mytholmroyd | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Sowerby Bridge | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Accrington | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Blackburn | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Burnley Manchester Road | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Rose Grove | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Brighouse | 30 | 30 | 0 |
| Batley | 29 | 30 | 0 |
| Dewsbury | 29 | 30 | 0 |
| Mirfield | 29 | 30 | 0 |
| Morley | 29 | 30 | 0 |
| Headbolt Lane | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Orrell | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Pemberton | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Rainford | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Upholland | 26 | 26 | 0 |
| Bradford Interchange | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Cottingley | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Halifax | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Wigan North Western | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Appley Bridge | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Burscough Bridge | 1 | 1 | 14 |
and 8 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Hag Fold
Hag Fold is on the Manchester to Southport Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Hag Fold station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Hag Fold station on 12 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 1 of them runs 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 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 Hag Fold station is
73,542 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,897th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Hag Fold and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 25,716 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: 17 stations instead of 48, a drop of about 65%. Saturday runs to 48.
Nearest other stations
- Atherton 0.7 miles
- Daisy Hill 1.0 miles
- Westhoughton 2.0 miles
- Lostock 2.7 miles
- Hindley 3.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hag Fold, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Atherton Bag Lane · 0.6 miles
- Chequerbent · 1.0 miles
- Howe Bridge · 1.2 miles
- Chequerbent · 1.2 miles
- Tyldesley · 1.8 miles
- Chew Moor · 2.1 miles
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Facilities at Hag Fold station
Hag Fold is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:25 to 12:55 · Saturday: closed · Sunday: closed
From National Rail's station record, last updated 15 April 2026.
Getting to Hag Fold station
Hag Fold station is in Wigan, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M61 J5 (Hunger Hill Interchange), 1.4 miles north.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hag Fold Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hag Fold 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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