Kirkby Stephen train station

You can reach 22 stations directly from Kirkby Stephen on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Appleby, with 16 trains a day.

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• 22 direct destinations
• 2,153rd busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 30 parking spaces

Direct trains from Kirkby Stephen

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

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Lines serving Kirkby Stephen

Kirkby Stephen is on the Settle-Carlisle Railway. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Kirkby Stephen station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Kirkby Stephen station on 70 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 15 paths on the Wednesday, 7 paths on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 20 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 10:00 to 11:00 on the Monday, with 3 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Kirkby Stephen station is

35,744 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,153rd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Kirkby Stephen and Carlisle than any other pair: 8,362 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

• Garsdale 9.4 miles
• Appleby 9.9 miles
• Dent 11.9 miles
• Kendal 17.2 miles
• Ribblehead 17.2 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Kirkby Stephen, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Smardale · 1.6 miles
• Crosby Garrett · 2.9 miles
• Ravenstonedale · 3.9 miles
• Musgrave · 4.2 miles

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Facilities at Kirkby Stephen station

Kirkby Stephen is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Parking at Kirkby Stephen station

• Station Car Park 30 spaces
  free

From National Rail's station record, last updated 26 May 2026.

Getting to Kirkby Stephen station

Kirkby Stephen station is in Westmorland and Furness, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M6 J38 (Tebay), 9.1 miles west.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Kirkby Stephen 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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