Hindley train station
You can reach 61 stations directly from Hindley on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Salford Crescent, with 136 trains a day.
Hindley is the nearest station for postcodes in WN2. Check your own postcode.
- 61 direct destinations
- 1,275th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- 50 parking spaces
- 2 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Hindley
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salford Crescent | 136 | 134 | 15 |
| Wigan Wallgate | 131 | 128 | 15 |
| Manchester Victoria | 104 | 102 | 15 |
| Salford Central | 101 | 99 | 15 |
| Ince | 98 | 98 | 15 |
| Atherton | 68 | 66 | 15 |
| Bolton | 68 | 68 | 0 |
| Daisy Hill | 68 | 66 | 15 |
| Swinton (Manchester) | 68 | 66 | 15 |
| Westhoughton | 68 | 68 | 0 |
| Walkden | 68 | 66 | 15 |
| Hag Fold | 67 | 65 | 15 |
| Rochdale | 64 | 62 | 0 |
| Todmorden | 63 | 61 | 0 |
| Appley Bridge | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Burscough Bridge | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Gathurst | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Littleborough | 62 | 61 | 0 |
| Meols Cop | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Parbold | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Southport | 62 | 62 | 14 |
| Smithy Bridge | 61 | 60 | 0 |
| Moorside | 38 | 36 | 15 |
| Walsden | 38 | 38 | 0 |
| Kearsley | 36 | 36 | 0 |
| Farnworth | 35 | 35 | 0 |
| Moses Gate | 34 | 34 | 0 |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Deansgate | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Hebden Bridge | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Leeds | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Mytholmroyd | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Sowerby Bridge | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Stalybridge | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Accrington | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Blackburn | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Burnley Manchester Road | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Rose Grove | 31 | 29 | 0 |
| Brighouse | 30 | 30 | 0 |
and 21 more stations, each served less often.
Freight through Hindley station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Hindley 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 Hindley station is
240,130 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,275th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 26,115 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Hindley and Manchester Victoria than any other pair: 97,698 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 61, a drop of about 72%. Saturday runs to 61.
Nearest other stations
- Ince 1.6 miles
- Westhoughton 2.3 miles
- Wigan North Western 2.4 miles
- Daisy Hill 2.4 miles
- Wigan Wallgate 2.5 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hindley, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Amberswood · 0.7 miles
- Hindley South · 1.2 miles
- Platt Bridge · 1.6 miles
- Dicconson Lane and Aspull · 1.7 miles
- Whelley · 1.8 miles
- Bickershaw and Abram · 1.9 miles
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Facilities at Hindley station
Hindley is staffed part time, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 12:40 · Saturday: 07:10 to 13:40 · Sunday: closed
Parking at Hindley station
- Station Car Park 50 spaces, 1 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 3 spaces (sheltered, lockers).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 21 April 2026.
Getting to Hindley station
Hindley station is in Wigan, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M61 J6 (Horwich Link Interchange), 2.4 miles north-east.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hindley Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hindley 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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