Horwich Parkway train station
You can reach 38 stations directly from Horwich Parkway on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Bolton, with 77 trains a day.
See Horwich Parkway on the map
Horwich Parkway is the nearest station for postcodes in BL6. Check your own postcode.
- 38 direct destinations
- 828th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 250 parking spaces
- 1 bus stop nearby
Direct trains from Horwich Parkway
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton | 77 | 76 | 24 |
| Chorley | 77 | 76 | 24 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 77 | 76 | 20 |
| Manchester Airport | 77 | 76 | 19 |
| Preston | 77 | 76 | 24 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 75 | 75 | 24 |
| Buckshaw Parkway | 74 | 73 | 24 |
| Blackpool North | 73 | 73 | 23 |
| Deansgate | 73 | 73 | 24 |
| Kirkham and Wesham | 73 | 73 | 23 |
| Poulton-le-Fylde | 73 | 73 | 23 |
| Salford Crescent | 73 | 73 | 24 |
| Lostock | 71 | 70 | 24 |
| Leyland | 70 | 69 | 24 |
| Adlington | 48 | 48 | 23 |
| Blackrod | 48 | 48 | 24 |
| Layton | 42 | 42 | 23 |
| Heald Green | 37 | 36 | 19 |
| Gatley | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Lancaster | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Arnside | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Barrow-in-Furness | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Cark and Cartmel | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Carnforth | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Dalton | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| East Didsbury | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Grange-over-Sands | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Kents Bank | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Roose | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Silverdale | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Ulverston | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Burnage | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Burneside | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kendal | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mauldeth Road | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oxenholme Lake District | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Staveley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Windermere | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Horwich Parkway
Horwich Parkway is on the Manchester to Preston Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Horwich Parkway station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Horwich Parkway station on 10 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is 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 Horwich Parkway station is
549,902 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 828th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Horwich Parkway and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 131,152 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: 22 stations instead of 38, a drop of about 42%. Saturday runs to 36.
Nearest other stations
- Blackrod 1.5 miles
- Westhoughton 1.7 miles
- Lostock 1.9 miles
- Hindley 2.8 miles
- Daisy Hill 2.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Horwich Parkway, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Lostock Lane · 0.6 miles
- Dicconson Lane and Aspull · 1.2 miles
- Horwich · 1.4 miles
- Chew Moor · 1.7 miles
- Chequerbent · 2.6 miles
- Chequerbent · 2.7 miles
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Facilities at Horwich Parkway station
Horwich Parkway is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:20 to 19:35 · Saturday: 06:20 to 19:35 · Sunday: closed
Toilets
Parking at Horwich Parkway station
- Station Car Park 250 spaces, 12 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 18 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 April 2026.
Getting to Horwich Parkway station
Horwich Parkway station is in Bolton, North West, and is run by Transport for Greater Manchester.
The nearest motorway junction is M61 J6 (Horwich Link Interchange), 0.4 miles west.
1 bus stop is within a short walk, the nearest being Horwich Parkway Rail Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Horwich Parkway 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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