Hunts Cross train station
You can reach 49 stations directly from Hunts Cross on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Liverpool South Parkway, with 167 trains a day.
Hunts Cross is the nearest station for postcodes in L25, L24. Check your own postcode.
- 49 direct destinations
- 399th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 30 parking spaces
- 7 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Hunts Cross
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool South Parkway | 167 | 168 | 85 |
| Aigburth | 129 | 129 | 64 |
| Brunswick | 129 | 129 | 64 |
| Cressington | 129 | 129 | 64 |
| Liverpool Central | 129 | 129 | 64 |
| St Michaels | 129 | 129 | 64 |
| Moorfields | 128 | 128 | 62 |
| Sandhills | 128 | 128 | 62 |
| Aintree | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Aughton Park | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Kirkdale | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Maghull | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Maghull North | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Ormskirk | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Orrell Park | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Old Roan | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Town Green | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Walton | 122 | 122 | 62 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 38 | 39 | 21 |
| Warrington Central | 38 | 39 | 21 |
| Widnes | 38 | 39 | 21 |
| Halewood | 37 | 38 | 21 |
| Hough Green | 37 | 38 | 21 |
| Mossley Hill | 37 | 37 | 21 |
| West Allerton | 37 | 37 | 21 |
| Warrington West | 35 | 36 | 21 |
| Edge Hill | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Sankey for Penketh | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 3 | 4 | 21 |
| Birchwood | 2 | 3 | 21 |
| Chassen Road | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Flixton | 2 | 3 | 21 |
| Glazebrook | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Irlam | 2 | 3 | 21 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Padgate | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Urmston | 2 | 3 | 21 |
| Alfreton | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Chesterfield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ely | 1 | 0 | 0 |
and 9 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Hunts Cross
Hunts Cross 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 Hunts Cross station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Hunts Cross 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 Hunts Cross station is
1,400,326 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 399th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 5,915 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Hunts Cross and Liverpool Central than any other pair: 547,004 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: 32 stations instead of 49, a drop of about 35%. Saturday runs to 48.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Hunts Cross gains 1 destination including Deansgate.
Nearest other stations
- Halewood 1.1 miles
- Liverpool South Parkway 1.4 miles
- West Allerton 2.2 miles
- Cressington 2.3 miles
- Mossley Hill 2.7 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hunts Cross, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Speke · 0.5 miles
- Garston railway station (Merseyside) · 1.6 miles
- Gateacre · 1.7 miles
- Church Road Garston · 1.9 miles
- Garston Dock · 2.0 miles
- Halebank · 2.4 miles
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Facilities at Hunts Cross station
Hunts Cross is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 05:51 to 00:16 · Sunday: 07:51 to 00:16
Toilets
Parking at Hunts Cross station
- Station Car Park 30 spaces, 2 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 36 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 September 2026.
Getting to Hunts Cross station
Hunts Cross station is in Liverpool, North West, and is run by Merseyrail.
The nearest motorway junction is M62 J6 (Tarbock Roundabout), 2.9 miles north-east.
7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hunts Cross Interchange.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hunts Cross 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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