Hough Green train station
You can reach 23 stations directly from Hough Green on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Liverpool Lime Street, with 68 trains a day.
Hough Green is the nearest station for postcodes in WA88. Check your own postcode.
- 23 direct destinations
- 1,421st busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free in part
- 41 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Hough Green
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool Lime Street | 68 | 69 | 21 |
| Liverpool South Parkway | 68 | 69 | 21 |
| Warrington Central | 68 | 69 | 21 |
| Mossley Hill | 67 | 67 | 21 |
| West Allerton | 66 | 66 | 21 |
| Warrington West | 65 | 66 | 21 |
| Widnes | 40 | 41 | 21 |
| Halewood | 37 | 38 | 21 |
| Hunts Cross | 37 | 38 | 21 |
| Edge Hill | 36 | 36 | 0 |
| Birchwood | 32 | 33 | 21 |
| Flixton | 32 | 33 | 21 |
| Irlam | 32 | 33 | 21 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 32 | 33 | 21 |
| Padgate | 32 | 33 | 0 |
| Urmston | 32 | 33 | 21 |
| Glazebrook | 18 | 19 | 0 |
| Trafford Park | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| Chassen Road | 17 | 18 | 0 |
| Humphrey Park | 17 | 17 | 0 |
| Sankey for Penketh | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Deansgate | 1 | 2 | 21 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Hough Green
Hough Green is on the Manchester and Allerton Junction Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Hough Green station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Hough Green station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Hough Green station is
192,584 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,421st busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Hough Green and Liverpool Lime Street than any other pair: 86,460 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: 15 stations instead of 23, a drop of about 35%. Saturday runs to 23.
Nearest other stations
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hough Green, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Ditton · 1.1 miles
- Ditton Mill · 1.1 miles
- Halebank · 1.5 miles
- Widnes Central · 1.8 miles
- Widnes South · 2.0 miles
- Ann Street Halt · 2.2 miles
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Facilities at Hough Green station
Hough Green is staffed full time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:10 to 00:10 · Sunday: 08:40 to 23:05
Parking at Hough Green station
- Station Car Park 41 spaces, 3 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 15 spaces (lockers).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.
Getting to Hough Green station
Hough Green station is in Halton, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is M57 J1 (Tarbock Roundabout), 1.8 miles north-west.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hough Green Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hough Green 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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