Hartford train station
You can reach 15 stations directly from Hartford on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Crewe, with 41 trains a day.
Hartford is the nearest station for postcodes in CW8. Check your own postcode.
- 15 direct destinations
- 1,344th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 74 parking spaces
- 2 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Hartford
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crewe | 41 | 33 | 28 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 41 | 33 | 28 |
| Liverpool South Parkway | 41 | 33 | 28 |
| Runcorn | 41 | 33 | 28 |
| Birmingham New Street | 36 | 32 | 25 |
| Penkridge | 36 | 32 | 25 |
| Smethwick Galton Bridge | 33 | 32 | 25 |
| Stafford | 36 | 32 | 25 |
| Winsford | 36 | 32 | 28 |
| Wolverhampton | 36 | 32 | 25 |
| Acton Bridge | 36 | 31 | 28 |
| Mossley Hill | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Adderley Park | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Birmingham International | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Coventry | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Coseley | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Lea Hall | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Marston Green | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Stechford | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Hartford
Hartford is on the West Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Hartford station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Hartford station on 793 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 149 paths on the Wednesday, 99 paths on the Saturday and 13 paths on the Sunday. 116 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 Tuesday, with 14 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 Hartford station is
218,272 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,344th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Hartford and Liverpool Lime Street than any other pair: 82,140 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: 11 stations instead of 15, a drop of about 27%. Saturday runs to 19.
Nearest other stations
- Greenbank 1.0 miles
- Cuddington 1.9 miles
- Acton Bridge 2.7 miles
- Northwich 2.7 miles
- Lostock Gralam 4.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hartford, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Whitegate · 2.6 miles
- Billinge Green Halt · 3.0 miles
- Winsford and Over · 3.5 miles
- Over and Wharton · 3.7 miles
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Facilities at Hartford station
Hartford is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:00 to 17:00 · Friday: 06:00 to 19:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 15:00 · Sunday: 10:35 to 12:00
Toilets
Parking at Hartford station
- Station Car Park 74 spaces, 5 accessible
£5.90 a day, £17.30 a week
Cycle parking: 16 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.
Getting to Hartford station
Hartford station is in Cheshire West and Chester, North West, and is run by West Midlands Trains (London Northwestern Railway).
The nearest motorway junction is M56 J10 (Stretton Roundabout), 6.5 miles north.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hartford 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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