Hellifield train station

You can reach 32 stations directly from Hellifield on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Skipton, with 33 trains a day.

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• 32 direct destinations
• 2,102nd busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free throughout
• 10 parking spaces

Direct trains from Hellifield

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

and 8 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Hellifield

Hellifield is on the Ribble Valley Line and the Skipton and Wennington Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Hellifield station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Hellifield station on 285 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 58 paths on the Wednesday, 7 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 25 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 13:00 to 14:00 on the Monday, with 10 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 Hellifield station is

42,272 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,102nd busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 766 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Hellifield and Leeds than any other pair: 11,336 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.

Nearest other stations

• Long Preston 1.2 miles
• Settle 4.5 miles
• Giggleswick 4.7 miles
• Gargrave 5.4 miles
• Skipton 8.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Settle Junction · 3.0 miles
• Bell Busk · 3.1 miles
• Newsholme · 3.7 miles

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Facilities at Hellifield station

Hellifield is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.

Parking at Hellifield station

• Station Car Park 10 spaces
  free

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

Getting to Hellifield station

Hellifield station is in North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M65 J14, 10.9 miles south.

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

Hellifield 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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