Ilkeston train station
You can reach 32 stations directly from Ilkeston on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Alfreton, with 46 trains a day.
Ilkeston is the nearest station for postcodes in DE7. Check your own postcode.
- 32 direct destinations
- 1,390th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free throughout
- 91 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Ilkeston
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfreton | 46 | 51 | 31 |
| Chesterfield | 46 | 51 | 31 |
| Nottingham | 46 | 50 | 31 |
| Sheffield | 46 | 51 | 31 |
| Langley Mill | 39 | 38 | 29 |
| Dronfield | 38 | 38 | 27 |
| Barnsley Interchange | 31 | 31 | 25 |
| Leeds | 31 | 31 | 25 |
| Meadowhall Interchange | 31 | 31 | 25 |
| Wakefield Kirkgate | 31 | 31 | 25 |
| Manchester Piccadilly | 8 | 13 | 4 |
| Stockport | 7 | 13 | 4 |
| Grantham | 5 | 10 | 3 |
| Liverpool Lime Street | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| Liverpool South Parkway | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| Manchester Oxford Road | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| Peterborough | 5 | 10 | 3 |
| Warrington Central | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| Widnes | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| Normanton | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Appleby | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Armathwaite | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bingley | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Carlisle | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Castleford | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Chapeltown | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dent | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Darton | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Elsecar | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Garsdale | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Horton-in-Ribblesdale | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hellifield | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Keighley | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kirkby Stephen | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Langwathby | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Long Preston | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lazonby and Kirkoswald | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ribblehead | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Settle | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Shipley | 0 | 0 | 1 |
and 3 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Ilkeston
Ilkeston is on the Erewash Valley Line and the Trowell to Kirkby Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Ilkeston station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Ilkeston station on 631 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 130 paths on the Wednesday, 62 paths on the Saturday and 14 paths on the Sunday. 42 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 08:00 to 09:00 on the Tuesday, with 11 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Ilkeston station is
203,260 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,390th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Ilkeston and Nottingham than any other pair: 94,416 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
- Langley Mill 3.1 miles
- Bulwell 4.4 miles
- Beeston 5.4 miles
- Attenborough 5.7 miles
- Hucknall 5.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Ilkeston, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Ilkeston Town · 0.6 miles
- Ilkeston North · 0.7 miles
- Awsworth · 1.0 miles
- Trowell · 1.6 miles
- Shipley Gate · 1.8 miles
- Newthorpe, Greasley and Shipley Gate · 2.0 miles
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Facilities at Ilkeston station
Ilkeston is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
Parking at Ilkeston station
- Station Car Park 91 spaces, 6 accessible
£1.70 off-peak, £3.30 a day, £9.90 a week
Cycle parking: 18 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 11 August 2026.
Getting to Ilkeston station
Ilkeston station is in Erewash, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M1 J26 (Nuthall Interchange), 2.3 miles east.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Ilkeston Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Ilkeston 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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